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My Birthday Gift

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:44 AM PDT

Darren Murph Is The Real Blog Star with 17,212 blog posts!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 07:28 AM PDT

Engadget's Darren Murph is the Guinness Record Holder for most ever posts written by an Individual author. Darren has 17,212 blog posts to his credit at present on Engadget.



Engadget writes:-

Not only is this a first for Darren, it's a first for Guinness as well, creating a new category for the group. Darren joined Engadget in July of 2006 (his first post is here), and almost four years to the day (when these numbers were submitted to Guinness) he'd arrived at 17,212 individual posts (since surpassed, of course). That's single posts on Engadget, Engadget HD, and Engadget Mobile, not duplicated work. We obviously couldn't be more proud of Darren and the work he's done (and continues to do) here, and we think this is an amazing feat for one writer. Of course, this is the guy who did 59 posts in a single day at CES 2008. Seriously. To put it in perspective, his current word count is at 3,389,148. That's War and Peace about six times over.

Fujikura Europe Announces New CT-10 and CT-11 High Precision Cleave Tools

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 07:12 AM PDT

Fujikura Europe Ltd. (Fujikura Europe Ltd | Home), the world leader in fusion splicing technology, today announced that it has launched two new high precision cleave tools: the CT-10 and the CT-11.


The CT-11 is the first high precision angle cleaver that Fujikura has produced, responding to the demands of its FTTh customers. The CT-11 provides angle-cleaving in the field, allowing users to field terminate angled physical contact (APC) connectors. While the CT-10 is a single fibre cleaver, that offers the same compact body and precision cleaving as the CT-30, but at a significantly lower price.

Both tools have also been designed to allow a direct, overhead view of the cleave by opening wider. This upgraded design helps alleviate any issues caused by Parallax error – where the users eyes operate on two different lines of sight, causing small, but important accuracy errors to occur. The new CT-10 and CT-11 both help to alleviate this.

"We're excited by these two new products," said Brian Leonard, Product Manager at Fujikura Europe Limited. "It's the first time we've created a mechanical angle cleaving tool, the CT-11, but we're confident that it is the best in the market. We've also responded to our customers needs and are offering the CT-10 which is a very competitively priced, high precision cleave tool for single fibre fusion splicing."

More Details

CT-10
The CT-10 is a compact and light weight, high precision single fibre cleaver, with the option of a detachable fibre scrap collector. It has also been designed to allow an overhead view of the cleave to reduce Parallax error and it also allows users to replace the blade themselves, improving the ease of use and the overall cost of ownership.

CT-10 Features
– Dedicated for single fiber cleaving.
– User replaceable flat diamond blade.
– Simple & single-step operation.
– Blade life up to 64,000 cleaves.
– Compact and light weight.
– Detachable fiber scrap collector FC-03 available as option.
– Significantly lower priced than its predecessor the CT-30

CT-11
The CT-11 is the first time that Fujikura has created a high precision, angle cleaver. It provides consistent angle cleaving thanks to the newly introduced fibre clamping/twisting mechanism and is ideally suited for the field termination market. Like the CT-10 it has also been designed to allow an overhead view of the cleave to reduce Parallax error and it also allows users to replace the blade themselves, improving the ease of use and the overall cost of ownership.

CT-11 Features
– Dedicated for single fiber cleaving.
– User replaceable flat diamond blade.
– Simple operation.
– Blade life up to 64,000 cleaves.
– Compact and light weight.

For more information and pictures see here Fujikura Europe Announces New CT-10 and CT-11 High Precision Cleave Tools

Robotix 2011- The largest robotix fest in Asia!

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:55 AM PDT

Technology Robotix Society invites all robot enthusiasts to ROBOTIX 2011. Robotix is Asia's largest college level robotics fest held in IIT Kharagpur during its techno-management fest Kshitij from 28th-31st Jan 2011. Robotix 2010 was a success with a participation from over 450 teams with over 2.5 lakhs worth prize money being distributed.Robotix is set to return in 2011 with more challenging events and over 3 lakhs to be given away in prize money.

These are the events for ROBOTIX 2011:


Pirate Bay - A manual event that takes you right into the pirates' playground. Through the course of three exciting rounds, the bot will have to traverse through different type of terrains, climb inclines and release dummies that are "pirates".
RoboCop- An outdoor image processing robotics event where participants compete to build a fully automated robot that acts as a law enforcer.
R.A.F.T- An event that seeks solutions to the major challenge that is flood relief.The task is to build a manually controlled robot or a group of robots which can navigate a raft on water and retrieve people marooned.

The Negotiators- This event requires the participant to write and submit a computer program, which will be pitted against programs written by two other participants in a game of negotiation.
The Fugitives- Build multiple autonomous robots that catch and disable the "fugitive robots" moving randomly through the arena.
Ballista- Build an autonomous robot capable of detecting and shooting projectiles avoiding any detection by the enemy.

Further details are available on our website www.robotix.in. In case of any doubts or clarifications, please feel free to post on our online forumwww.robotix.in/forum
.

The ROBOTIX Team

Liquavista releases new machine to enable high volume manufacture

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:52 AM PDT

New machine will enable high volume filling and coupling of Liquavista's electrowetting displays

6th October 2010 – Liquavista BV has released a new machine that enables high volume filling and coupling of its electrowetting displays. This has been made and designed with VDL ETG Projects in Eindhoven and marks a significant step in bringing screens with Liquavista technology to volume production.

"The successful deployment of this new machine in our prototyping facility, is the final step in demonstrating how easy it is to take Liquavista's technology and slot it directly into an existing LCD manufacturing line" said Guy Demuynck, Liquavista's CEO. "From the beginning Liquavista has striven to align its manufacturing process with existing LCD processes so manufacturers can quickly embrace the benefits of its electrowetting technology, and convert large scale manufacturing capacities with very little investment and inconvenience ."

"We are very pleased to have achieved this important milestone in our cooperation with Liquavista" stated Arie van Kraay, Managing Director at VDL. "Working together with Liquavista on this high tech, customized machine has clearly demonstrated VDL's unique abilities in the field of manufacturing equipment".

"Almost the entire production line for electrowetting displays uses existing machines used in LCD production. This machine is the only piece of equipment that is unique to the manufacture of electrowetting displays and has been designed to be fully compatible with any generation substrate," added Johan Feenstra, Liquavista's Founder and CTO. "While the new machine will first be used in our existing prototyping facility to manufacture small quantities of displays, we expect to transfer copies of the machine to our volume manufacturing partners soon."

Liquavista's technology is the only display technology other than LCD, which operates in all three modes (reflective, transmissive and transflective) but with strongly increased optical performance. Liquavista has developed electrowetting display technology to be almost entirely compatible with existing LCD manufacturing techniques and processes, thereby greatly reducing its manufacturing and production costs. The new machine manages the only deviation from a standard LCD process, namely the process of filling, coupling and sealing each display. This process occurs at the end of the manufacturing cycle and therefore does not impact the general manufacturing flow in the rest of the LCD manufacturing facility. Described as LCD 2.0, Liquavista's technology is a straightforward upgrade for existing manufacturing facilities. This enables Liquavista's partners to re-use their manufacturing assets quickly and easily to manufacture displays and bring exciting, highly differentiated products to life with both enhanced usability and performance, yet with a rapid time-to-market.

Offering bright and colorful images that ensure excellent indoor and outdoor readability and use dramatically less battery power, Liquavista's displays offer a truly multimedia experience for the consumer.

ideas for project final yr..

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:29 AM PDT

i m a student of final year..
cn anyone suggest me any ideas for project..
reply soon...

CE Song / Anthem Reloaded

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:18 AM PDT

CEan AKD just unearthed this rare gem and sent me the link. Our talented Mod, Patty [ aka raj87verma88 ] composed this long ago here: http://www.crazyengineers.com/forum/...html#post33862


Like a hot summer day without a chilled beer
When you feel miserable and have no cheer
Becomes true your worst fear
Nothing interesting all the year
My friends lend me your ear
Such will be life without an engineer


Chorus
what's a pharaoh without a pyramid,
What's Paris without the Eiffel,
what's a civilized world,
without an engineer.


We can do much with all our tools
Oh! We all are so mighty cool
The world is our personal pool
Be it college or in school
Our inventions makes others drool
We are a bunch of Rational Fools


Chorus
what's a pharaoh without a pyramid,
What's Paris without the Eiffel,
what's a civilized world,
without an engineer.


Engineers both young and old
their heads high and standing bold
superior brains and heart of gold
answers to problems in the brain's fold
such a lot you will find I am told
at CE and it ain't cold


Chorus
anywhere on the globe you can be
one thing you'll be able to see
who made all that good stuff
Log on & see at CE.


Gears and engine from mechanical
circuits systems are electrical
trusses and cantilevers by the structural
civil, computer though without 'cal'
but believe me they're quite technical
and at CE they have their cubical



Chorus
anywhere on the globe you can be
one thing you'll be able to see
who made all that good stuff
Log on & see at CE


Questions fill our mind a lot
we search for answers deep in thought
but unawares we are never caught
be it a wrench or the CE Bot
We enjoy our life a lot
Hell, Yeah, we are Hot



Chorus
Making a messenger or a robotic arm
or contests that are quite cool
Know your CEan are quite a charm
CE makes an engineer drool.


Let's work on this and compose something.

front wheel drive or rear wheel drive

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:12 AM PDT

hi all,
can someone suggest whether to use a front wheel drive or a rear wheel drive for a remote control ic engine racing buggy. Four wheel transmission in not possible. Its has to run on off road track which obstacles. ic engine is of 3.2 cc.

mechanical engg project

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:39 AM PDT

i would like to do the project of switch operated gear shifting system in two wheeler.....so pls give me idea how to implement this.....

Job Ex or direct MS

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:36 AM PDT

hi

i was thinking of doing MS after my B.Tech in CS. can anybody tell me if i would get any advantage if I apply for MS after gaining job ex say for 2 yrs.

thanks

need help from IEEE members

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 02:32 AM PDT

Hello friends
i am doing some design work on LVDTs signal conditioners. I found some ieee apers abstract which is relevent to my project
If anyone having IEEE membership please download the following papers and send it to my e mail id
kalaianand.vit@gmail.com
or
anandkumar.1059@datapatterns.co.in


papers:
1) Fucik, O., P. Zemcik, D. Loker, R. Ford and R. Weissbach. A Flexible DSP Platform for LVDT Signal Conditioning. Proceedings of the Electromotion 2001 Conference. pp. 183–188 (2001).

2)Ford, R., R. Weissbach, and D. Loker. A DSP-Based Modified Costas Receiver for LVDT Position Sensors. IEEE Measurement and Instrumentation Conference. pp. 1448-1452 (2000).

3)Weissbach, R., D. Loker, and R. Ford. Test and Comparison of LVDT Signal Conditioner Performance. IEEE Measurement and Instrumentation Conference. pp. 1143-1146 (2000).

4)Ford, R., R. Weissbach and D. Loker. A Novel DSP-Based LVDT Signal Conditioner. IEEE Transactions, Instrumentation and Measurement. 50(3):768-773 (2001).


please help me friends, its urgent for me

Thank you

Regards
Anand

automatic constraint based test generation for behavioural hdl models

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 01:23 AM PDT

hi
can anyone help me to do project on
automatic constraint based test generation for behavioural hdl models

if you anything about this

please send to me

that will very usefull for me

thank you

LVDT signal conditioning excitaion (externally)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:33 AM PDT

hello friends
For signal conditioning LVDT normally we go for AD698(Universal signal conditioner). Here an in-built excitation voltage is available for exciting primary of the LVDT. signal conditioning is done throgh sensing the primary and seconday voltage magnitude and phase.
my doubt is.. Is it possible to give an external excitaion voltage for LVDT and do the same signal conditioning using the AD698(analog method) or any digital technique.
i am trying to develope the functioning of the singnal conditioner using Digital method(using DSP).
please help me out

Thank you


regards
Anand

Mini Project Design Ideas for Embedded Systems

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 11:15 PM PDT

Hi all,

I am a Computer Systems Engineering Student (5th semester).... I just want design ideas... can anyone please suggest me a mini project for Embedded Systems....

XenForo Beta Available For Download: Just $100 Only For Today [Otherwise $140]

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 09:54 PM PDT

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