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Haptic Touch – Valuable Feedback or Just a Cheap Buzz?

On July 8, 2016 in All by Mirko Bernacchi

Touch technologies have been with us for decades but our experience with them has not always been positive. Often, we’re not sure if the devices we touch have noticed! Even when there’s some visual or audible indication that they’ve registered our intentions, the outcome isn’t always as we expect – false triggering, contact bounce and other interference effects come into play.

Tagged With: Haptic Touch

Making Art with Engineering

On June 30, 2016 in Maker, STEAM by Benjamin Miller

This past semester I took an embedded systems course where my lab partner and I had to design a video game system, from the game software to the controls. When we were finished, the breadboard we were working with was an absolute mess. I was perfectly happy with it simply working. My partner, however, insisted that we clean it up and 3D print an enclosure for it, like a true video game.

Tagged With: Adafruit, Apple, Engineering, Intel

Starting out: Essential Electronics Tools, Part II: Oscilloscopes, Function Generators and Logic Analyzers

On June 28, 2016 in All by Mike Parks

In the previous blog about essential tools for electronics, I mentioned some of the more basic items. As you do more advanced electronics, and sometimes to better understand the basics, you would do well to have the following tools. They are not really needed for building basic circuits and playing around with Arduino projects and the like, but as you start to expand into more complex technologies, you will find these tools extremely helpful...

Tagged With: Function Generators, Logic Analyzers, Oscilliscopes

Intel®'s Quark™ D2000 SBC & the Open Source nano-RTOS

On June 28, 2016 in IoT by Lynnette Reese

Intel® is doing it again: they are almost giving away stuff and definitely giving away other stuff. A new member of the Quark family is out, and Intel’s Quark™ D2000 Microcontroller Developer Kit is offered at a very affordable price and has some exceptional tools thrown in for free.

Tagged With: D2000, Intel

Walking Ham Chapter 2: To Catch A Zombie

On June 21, 2016 in All by Mike Parks

A few weeks ago I was able to talk with a guy in Mansfield, Texas, using Morse code. I nearly broke out in tears to be able to talk with another human being. He’s holed up in the Mouser warehouse, an ex-IT employee who has a little electronics experience but managed to hack together a Morse code set up. Turns out Boy Scouts really are prepared for everything. It took a while but over the course of a few days Tony was able to help me locate a shipment of electronics that had been shipped from Mouser to a home nearby, so I thought I would check it out.

Tagged With: Ham Radio, Walking Dead

Xpress Your Designs to the World! Microchip MPLAB® Xpress Development Board

On June 16, 2016 in Dev Tools by Paul Golata

I have recently incorporated the Fractal Audio AX8 as an all-in-one Amp Modeler + Multi-Effects Pedalboard Processor in lieu of my traditional amplifier. And as a base rock-n-roll patch, I have programmed the Trainwreck Express.

Tagged With: Guitars, Microchip, MPLAB Xpress, Music

The International Microwave Symposium 2016: Catching the Wireless Waves

On June 15, 2016 in RF by Aimee Kalnoskas

Between the sessions, papers, workshops, and exhibit halls you got the sense that suddenly the super-hyped world of IoT, M2M, and V2V have finally intersected, and perhaps breathed new life into, the world of microwave, Millimeter wave (MMW), and 5G. At a time where the number of people in the world (6 billion) is exceeded by the number of cellphones…now what? IoT is what. M2M, V2V, IoT. Talk around Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) or what some refer to as 4.5G, is seen as an evolutionary step towards 5G driven largely by need to make those billions of connections possible.

Tagged With: 5G, International Microwave Symposium, IoT, M2M, V2V

Engineering Marvel: A Behind-the-Shield Interview with Allen Pan

On June 10, 2016 in Empowering Innovation by Allen Pan

Mouser sat down with Allen to find out more about this engineer who continually defies the norm. We wanted to learn what goes on inside his head and leads to his different design ideas. Here’s what he had to say.

Tagged With: Allen Pan, Empowering Innovation, Sufficiently Advanced

The Internet of Useful Things, or “The World’s Most Expensive Egg Timer”

On June 8, 2016 in All, Automation, IoT by Lynnette Reese

How did we get here? I could use several lifetimes up just in projects. The tools available to the masses seem to be fueled by IoT. We can all engineer a little IoT, apparently.

Tagged With: home automation, IFTTT, IoT

Dress Like an Engineer

On June 6, 2016 in All by Caroline Storm Westenhover

This was the first time I had ever been on a panel, and some of the organizers at the conference asked me what I was going to wear. To which I responded by looking down at my lab polo and khakis and saying, “This?” They informed me that I would probably want to wear something nicer.

Tagged With: Women in Engineering

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