Voice Detection & Recognition Solutions Enabling Always-On Voice Input Applications While Maximizing Battery Life Low Power, Always-on, Accurate, Responsive Consumers increasingly want to use voice commands to interact with their smartphones and other consumer electronic devices. Enabling reliable and accurate voice input applications while simultaneously minimizing the impact to battery life is a clear priority […]
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Californian phosphor firm Intematix and Lumileds are claiming record efficiency for an LED lightbulb: 203 lm/W for a remote-phosphor lamp. “It is believed that this module represents the highest level of efficacy among LED-based light sources commercially available for production in the market today,” said Intematix. Remote phosphor lamps use blue LEDs, with the white-producing
LED light bulb record, and more lm/W from Lumileds Continue Reading
Virtual Object Grabber What is seeing without feeling? The field of Virtual Reality has recently been gaining much attention, with the Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard paving the path of visualizing a world that is not physically there. But what if the virtual reality experience could be enhanced by incorporating tactile sensing? The Haptic Glove
Feeling the light in a whole new way Continue Reading
Today we’ll be talking about Captain Herrmano’s Mystery Box, a piece of hardware that I built over a year ago. But what is this box, what does it do, who was it built for and who is this Captain Herrmano anyway? This will be the topic of this article. What is Captain Herrmano’s Mystery Box?
Captain Herrmano’s Mystery Box – a Reverse Geocache Continue Reading
A (not so) brief introduction. I’ve been working on a new robot called RoDI for a summer course at my Alma mater. RoDI is a low cost wireless robot to teach robotics and programming I started developing last year (reminder to self: I still need to post about it), but it wasn’t until a month ago that
Programming an Arduino via WiFi with the ESP8266 Continue Reading
If you can’t see the original video in your country please try this other link of a “music edited version”: Step 1: Bill of Material (All you will need) For the Housing Three 300x300mm x 3mm thickness Acrylic glass (black) One 300x300mm x 3mm thickness Acrylic glass (transparent) Acrylic glass adhesive and polish Twenty 15mm
LED – Mega Clock Using Arduino Continue Reading
Electronics work by interconnections. Normally, you’d think that a potential at one point on a wire is the same everywhere. However, that is (mostly) not the case and all kinds of aspects can pop up that make the potentials differ at different locations. Old-timers may remember connecting a printer to a computer and getting zapped
NoLoop – Serial and SPI isolator Breaking ground-loops with galvanic isolation Continue Reading
When MC Hammer rapped ‘You can’t touch this’ little did he know of the work being carried out by a group of scientists at Bristol University. The team led by Dr Ben Long and colleagues Professor Sriram Subramanian, Sue Ann Seah and Tom Carter have produced an ultrasonic sound system able to generate 3D shapes
Arduino Tactile Holograms Continue Reading
This illustration represents the four-layer prototype high-rise chip built by Stanford engineers. The bottom and top layers are logic transistors. Sandwiched between them are two layers of memory. The vertical tubes are nanoscale electronic …more For decades, the mantra of electronics has been smaller, faster, cheaper. Today, Stanford engineers add a fourth word – taller.
Researchers combine logic, memory to build a ‘high-rise’ chip Continue Reading
I work as a software developer for a biology lab where my day job consists of creating applications to deal with big data visualisation. Recently however one of my colleagues had the need to take regular temperature measurements form a range of jars of liquids over quite an extended period. The commercial available solutions to
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