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Dash Robotics Developing Indestructible Biomimetic Roachbots for Everyone
What Ever Happened to STEM Job Security?
Microsoft's Nokia Deal Faces Skepticism from Smartphone Analysts
Measuring Radiation in Fukushima With Pocket Geigers and bGeigies

Dash Robotics Developing Indestructible Biomimetic Roachbots for Everyone

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:42 AM PDT

One of the coolest bio-inspired robots we've ever seen can now be yours

What Ever Happened to STEM Job Security?

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 05:40 AM PDT

A personal view on how decades of recurring recessions, downsizing, outsourcing and H-1B visas changed the social compact between STEM workers and their employers

Microsoft's Nokia Deal Faces Skepticism from Smartphone Analysts

Posted: 05 Sep 2013 05:02 AM PDT

Microsoft's $7.2 billion deal for Nokia's handset business aims to boost its smartphone market share

Measuring Radiation in Fukushima With Pocket Geigers and bGeigies

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:23 AM PDT

Citizen scientists' efforts to track radiation get results

Trossen Robotics Blog

5 Legged Hexapod Learns to Walk Again

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:28 AM PDT

IEEE Spectrum has a great article on researchers with ISIR, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris running experiments with out PhantomX Hexapod.

In these experiments the researchers are examining algorithms for robots to ‘recover’ from damage. In this case, they shortned a leg of the hexapod, and use a T-Resilience Algorithm to calculate a new walking pattern/gait.

Their initial gait was able to acheive a top speed of 26cm/s. When they shortened one leg to half it’s original length, the performance dropped to 8cm/s. At this point the robot begins to calculate a new gait. It runs 40 simulations, then trys the best of these simulations in real life. The hexapod will run this experiment 25 times to determine the best new gait. In only 20 minutes the hexapod is able to use a new gait that gets 18cm/s – three times the performance of the original gait under damaged conditions!

Now this is no normal PhantomX Hexapod. This model has a custom chassis, an IR camera, MX-28s, an on on-board computer, and a custom built ‘damaged’ leg.

Researchers Sylvain Koos, Antoine Cully and Jean-Baptiste Mouret have done a great job with this experiement as well as documenting it. More information about the paper can be found here and here. A PDF of the paper can be found here.

News post : Electronic Projects Circuits :Eleccircuit.com

Six sound effect generators using MM5837

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 10:42 AM PDT

This is a simple sound effect generators that imitate the sound of water and wind in nature. At least 6 sounds by changing capacitance only. We use IC-MM5837 as an important device. So powerful. And budget. For example six sound effect are: 1. Rain on the metal roof. 2. Rainstorm 3. The wind in the [...]

IEEE Spectrum

Start-up Profile: Axiflux
Hoaloha Robotics Developing Socially Assistive Hardware Platform
An Engineering Career: Only a Young Person’s Game?
Nanoparticle May Drive Down Price of Photovoltaics
BitMonet: Pay-per-view for the Internet
Carbon Emissions: Tax or Regulate?
IT Hiccups of the Week: Sutter Health’s $1 Billion EHR System Crashes

Start-up Profile: Axiflux

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 08:41 AM PDT

Although smaller and smarter, software-controlled electric motors and generators are a difficult sell

Hoaloha Robotics Developing Socially Assistive Hardware Platform

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 07:36 AM PDT

Originally a software company, Hoaloha is now developing its own home care robot

An Engineering Career: Only a Young Person’s Game?

Posted: 04 Sep 2013 06:45 AM PDT

Half-life of knowledge pressures employers to seek out young engineers

Nanoparticle May Drive Down Price of Photovoltaics

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 03:13 PM PDT

Nanoparticle is cheap to make, but energy conversion efficiency figures will also play a role

BitMonet: Pay-per-view for the Internet

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 02:37 PM PDT

BitMonet micropayment platform monetizes online content in a way that finally makes sense

Carbon Emissions: Tax or Regulate?

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 01:20 PM PDT

Regulation appears to be the only viable option, despite its evident defects

IT Hiccups of the Week: Sutter Health’s $1 Billion EHR System Crashes

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 12:05 PM PDT

Computer issue bites Japanese rocket launch, Nasdaq partially blames software bug for outage

Techy at day, Blogger at noon, and a Hobbyist at night

FL125 wiring (Suzuki Shogun)

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:33 PM PDT

Shogun FL125 wiring diagram Troubleshooting wiring of any scooter or under bone type of motorcycles is easier if we have a handy schematic of the bike. When adding accessories, we need to determine what color of the wire is the right path of tapping anything to avoid electrical problems, such as blown fuse, wire heating up, etc. Shown is the full wiring diagram of FL125 brand motorcycle by

IEEE Spectrum

Black Is the New Black with AR Drone Refresh

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 07:42 AM PDT

Is your AR Drone not stealthy enough? Parrot's got a new Power Edition you might be interested in

Is There a U.S. IT Worker Shortage?

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 06:26 AM PDT

New Big Data, Cloud Computing and HIT worker demand is in millions by 2015

News post : Electronic Projects Circuits :Eleccircuit.com

Simple crystal oscillator 1-10MHz using inverter gate

Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:01 AM PDT

This is simple crystal oscillators that provided square wave of 1MHz to 10MHz, Use an inverter gate IC and control frequencies with crystal. A oscillator or a frequency generator provide waveform out in various forms. For example : sine wave, Triangular waveform, Or square wave. The Frequency generator to control or out for a base [...]

10 circuit that PCB layout update vol.2

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10 Circuits that PCB update vol.2

Hi, friends
Today we would like to tell about PCB update in many circuit.
The old time these circuits not have PCB layout so you build it with difficulty.
Now we add the PCB layout for you build easily them.

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