Holiday Greetings
Holiday Greetings!
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The Tech Toy Shopping List for 2017
Shopping for tech toys for the holidays? Here's some tech toys - and one not so tech ones - worth looking at.
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An anti-poaching collar: yet another interesting application using sensors
Ákos Lédeczi is a professor of computer engineering at Vanderbilt, and George Wittemyer teaches in Colorado State’s department of fish, wildlife and conservation biology. They’re designing an anti-poaching collar designed for use with big game in Africa, which they wrote about in an EE Times article.
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Filling ‘er up gets the Faraday treatment
Engineers have been playing around with coming up with an alternative way to charge electric vehicles, and what they’ve come up with is a method based on induction
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Sensor Proliferation
Two things that tend to capture my interest in an article are sensors and cars, and Bill Schweber’s entertaining post in a recent EE Times featured both. So I was entertained.
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Looking back on 20 great years
Hard to believe, but it was twenty years ago this past summer that four young (or youngish) embedded systems engineers – John Fayos, Omar Rahim, Dave Rice, and myself – got together and founded Critical Link.
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Weather Forecasting
Over the past month or so, I’ve been keeping my eye on the news about hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria...What’s most interesting to me in all this is, of course, the underlying science and technology of weather forecasting.
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Some Stats from the 2017 Embedded Markets Survey
A few highlights from the Aspencore 2017 Embedded Market Study.
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A stroll down memory lane
My last post (on asynch resets) wasn’t exactly light summer reading. So I thought that, as the summer winds down, I’d give you a break by focusing on a couple of recent EE Times articles that are a bit more fun. (Not that asynch resets can’t be fun…)
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Asynch resets. (Some light summer reading…)
It’s the dog days of summer. Everyone’s thinking vacation. Or back to school. Or cooling off. Or all three. So this is something of a heavy duty topic to ask you to read up on. But just a few days ago, I came across a three-part article on embedded.com, in with Reuven Dobkin addressed the topic of “Asynchronous reset synchronization and distribution – challenges and solutions.”
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