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Wi-Fi Aware Raises Beacon Challenge
The Wi-Fi Alliance is trying to grab a share of the booming beacon market. (Courtesy: Estimote) Until now, Bluetooth® Smart has largely had a free run as the preferred communication technology for...
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Pumpkins, Open Sky and a Legend or Two, Thrown In
I confess. I’m a channel flipper. Blame it on having an over abundance of channels at my fingertips, or a short attention span. The more strange and odd the program or episode, the more likely I’m to...
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Milling About: CNC Routing a Circuit Board
Figure 1: A milled circuit board Breadboards are fantastic for experimenting with a circuit design and testing components. Eventually, you will want to move to a more robust solution for a circuit that...
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Will Autonomous Vehicles Put Human Jobs in the Backseat?
Fig 1: This is the workplace of the combined driver and transport manager in the truck of the future. The new Actros already makes a visual distinction between the driving and living areas. Images...
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Portable Power: Especially Useful on Pluto
Imagine this. You have just parked your private space ship on Pluto, intrigued by all the recent NASA photos of the not-a-planet small wannabe-could-be-planet, and you realize your cell phone is on its...
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The Truth Is Still Out There. And We’re Still Looking.
Contact is one of my favorite films, based on Carl Sagan’s book of that name, in which a great cast searches for and (thanks to scientist Jodie Foster) finds proof of alien life. There’s lots of cool...
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Autonomous Vehicles are Rapidly Becoming a Reality
Autonomous vehicles are rapidly becoming a reality. Every major automobile manufacturer is working on them. The potential of autonomous vehicles is also attracting new participants, including Tesla...
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USB Type-C™ Explained
I was intrigued to hear that Brian Leung, a Google engineer working on the Chromebook Pixel, had gone on a one-man crusade to help early adopters of USB Type-C technology (used in the Pixel) to review...
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IoT Roll-out Highlights Security Concerns
IoT security research findings from Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s internet of things research study. (Courtesy: Hewlett Packard Enterprise)It’s a familiar pattern; a new technology is introduced,...
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Audiophiles: The Battles Rage On
A lot of work goes in to making the "perfect" sound.I’ve always been fascinated by the audiophile community, as it strives to achieve the absolute best possible audio fidelity, and in the late ‘60s...
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What are You Sensing? Pros and Cons of Four Temperature Sensor Types
Choosing temperature-sensing products may seem trivial, but with the wide variety of products available, this task can be quite daunting. In this blog post, I’ll present four types of temperature...
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Bringing the IoT into the Vehicle
In the Internet of Things era, automotive infotainment’s primary role is to intelligently connect the car and all of its subsystems to the driver and passengers’ world; enriching the driving experience...
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Creating Wisdom in the Internet of Things- the IoT ‘Killer App’?
The Internet of Things (IoT) will provide an avalanche of data. Remote sensors for just about every ‘Thing’ will provide data on the location of cars, busses, packages, and your dog, as well as...
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Unlocking the Power of High-Voltage Innovation
Why does high-voltage innovation matter? It’s a question we hear frequently, and the answer may surprise you. Recently, my colleague Chris Schairbaum and I co-authored a white paper about how we are...
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Turn The Lights Down and Get Some REST: A Trojan Horse for Automating...
At a recent energy conference there was a great deal of discussion on how the commercial real estate market might leverage the current infatuation with smart devices, and buzz around the Internet of...
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So How Does An Engineer Choose Motors for a Robot Design?
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Children and the F-word
One of our bloggers moved across the U.S. a while back, travelling in an RV. He has a wife, kids, and a dog. He seems a bit rattled, but who wouldn’t be, hurtling through space at 60MPH in a metal box...
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Drones of a Feather Flock Together
One of the hottest gifts this past holiday season were consumer DRONES. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) projected one million of these devices were under Christmas trees this past...
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Three Things You Should Know About Ethernet PHY
The evolution of Ethernet is fascinating. More than 40 years ago, Robert Metcalfe was asked to create a local area network (LAN) for the storied Palo Alto Research Center. The result of Metcalfe’s...
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Analyzing the Possibilities: Designing a Tricorder BoosterPack
The engineering profession and the Maker movement are both driven by the fundamental notion that if you can dream it, you can build it. Now more than ever, individuals and small teams are empowered to...
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