Lots of technology behind the moon landing
With the celebration of July’s 50th anniversary of the moon landing, I’ve been reading a lot about Apollo 11, especially the technology involved in it all. What’s most interesting is how primitive by current standards the technology that got astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon, and Armstrong and Aldrin onto […]
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Don’t know about you, but I never get sick of car talk.
I never get sick of car talk - or tech talk. The latest I saw on EE Times covers last mile delivery technology and a new EV platform that has all components in the wheels.
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Thanks for the memories, implants
Researchers have long been working on brain implants that will help with memory loss. Now devices that can restore memory-generation capability for those who’ve suffered traumatic brain injuries are closer to becoming a reality.
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Ro, ro, ro your boat
I’ve had an interest in robotics, dating back to my grad school days. So naturally I was intrigued by a recent article I saw on Futurism about how MIT scientists, funded by the city of Amsterdam are building “self-piloting” mini-barges — “Roboats” — “to cruise its canals and make better use of waterways that have […]
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You Gotta Know When to Hold ‘Em
Some Cornell students have built an FPGA-based pokerbot. And it's a lot faster than ARM- and Intel-based versions.
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Drone to the Rescue! Literally.
Another tremendous application of technology: drones used to deliver organs for transplants.
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How technology saved – and will restore – Notre Dame Cathedral
Like most of the world, I was saddened by the devastating fire that did so much damage to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last month. You don’t have to have been to this magnificent building, nor do you have to be religious, to be heartened that the damage was contained and the building will be […]
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Gene Frantz on the IoT: Smart Sensors Part Two (and More)
This is my final post summarizing Gene Frantz's series on the IoT, which ran on Embedded Computing last summer.
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Gene Frantz on the IoT: Smart Sensors Part One
Gene Frantz has a lot to say about the IoT, including asking the provocative question: "is it time to go back to analog computing?"
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Gene Frantz on the IoT: Now it’s the cloud’s turn
I recently came across series of blog posts by Gene Frantz, devoted to the IoT. Since coming across these posts, I’ve done a summary of Gene’s definition of the IoT, and a second post on his three-part discussion on aggregators, one of three IoT components he writes about (the others are the cloud and smart […]
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