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LeakKiller Challenge
Win up to £15k in the DesignSpark LeakKiller Challenge powered by Legal & General. We are looking for you to design a low-cost, open source water leakage detector and shut ...
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Designing out contamination
Contamination can impact almost any kind of industrial process. Contamination can mean stopped production, followed by costly cleanup, loss of reputation and unhappy customers....
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Efficiently powering sensors in IoT
Without sensors, there would be no Internet of Things (IoT). They measure and record temperature, brightness, movement and many other parameters and transfer the data to the sma...
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Wireless Power Transfer System for Rehabilitation
This project details how to build a wireless power transfer system using an inductive link for the rehabilitation of a patient with disabilities of the arm, shoulder and hand.
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How to Select Test Instrumentation for Temperature Profiling of Battery Charg...
Charge and discharge currents increase the temperature of the batteries and temperature directly affects the lifespan and storage capacity of batteries. Batteries tend to be eff...
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LeakKiller Challenge
Win up to £15k in the Desig... -
Designing out contamination
Contamination can impact almost ... -
Efficiently powering sensors in ...
Without sensors, there would be ... -
Wireless Power Transfer System f...
This project details how to buil... -
How to Select Test Instrumentati...
Charge and discharge currents in...
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@Gerapolean I remember when 300 baud was considered "high speed"
We loaded our PDP-15 with punched tape. Core memory, stop the program, shut the machine down, start up at next instruction when... -
Gerapolean7 hours ago
Paper tape and punch card storage, 300 baud acoustical modems, programming by flipping switches...ah, duh memories. -
ryderengineering
12 hours ago
Were you able to convert the data into ASCII G and M codes, and thereby be able to read the NC program? Just curious. I must have punched miles of paper tape back in the 70's and 80's. -
Steveastrouk14 hours ago
He. That brings back memories. I had to build a CNC replacement for a giant embroidery machine that was paper tape driven over 20 years ago. The problem was that, if the machine ran out of thread on one... -
g8lii17 hours ago
In 1980 I was using a Creed 7B as my printer driven by a Nascom Z80 computer. G8LII
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leonie
September 25, 2017 14:15
The future in motion
One of today’s big topics of discussion is the rise of the robots and whether there will be any jobs left for us less-than-perfect humans in the future!
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DesignSpark
September 25, 2017 14:15
Newsletter 25-09-17
This week, smart cameras get smarter, Bluno Beetle automation and motor connectivity from TE.
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DS Electrical
September 25, 2017 12:10
“A worker’s first day at work shouldn’t be his last day on earth”
This dramatic yet blatantly obvious statement is in fact a quote by David Michaels of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the USA.
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leonie
September 25, 2017 10:50
LeakKiller Design Challenge Q&As
Thanks for sending your questions in with regards to the LeakKiller design challenge. Questions and answers will be added here to support all our community engineers that are taking part in the design challenge.
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DS Electrical
September 25, 2017 10:49
Why is risk assessment like cleaning your teeth?
What would be the consequences of failing to integrate risk assessment into our design processes? Any machine designed without consideration for hazards and risks is going to become an accident waiting to happen.
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BonnieG
September 25, 2017 10:04
LED Retrofit – The Key Facts
The innovation in lighting over recent years has given rise to many retrofit options for LEDs. Replacing lamps in existing fittings with LED equivalents is one of the easiest ways to make energy savings.
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Connector Geek
September 22, 2017 14:23
Hirose announces the ix Industrial Connector
Hirose announces the ix Industrial, the next generation of connector designed to deliver the performance needed for the factory of tomorrow which will integrate smart technologies into the manufacturing environment.
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casparschoenmakers
September 19, 2017 15:51
Rise of the Smart Cams
“They’re coming!” No, they’re already here. And get ready to see a lot more of them, as the hardware needed for a Smart Cam is becoming very affordable and its applications are near endless.
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Molex CES
September 19, 2017 15:40
EU Construction Products Regulation - an explanation
All data and telecommunications cable, copper and fibre, supplied to EU member states and permanently installed in construction works, is subject to the rules of CPR from 1st July 2017. If you’d like to know more, Molex CES is here to help.
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leonie
September 19, 2017 14:32
Changing the face of the insurance industry with open source IoT hardware
This month, DesignSpark and Legal & General launched the LeakKiller design challenge. This collaborative open-source hardware competition asks designers to come up with a solution to detect water leakage fast and stop it in its tracks.
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Mark Cundle
September 19, 2017 14:02
Augmented Reality in Engineering
Whilst there’s a huge amount of hype around Virtual Reality currently, led primarily by tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Sony; it is sometimes easy to overlook Augmented Reality. This article looks at the future of AR in engineering
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Connector Geek
September 18, 2017 15:03
Designing out contamination
Contamination can impact almost any kind of industrial process. Contamination can mean stopped production, followed by costly cleanup, loss of reputation and unhappy customers.
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