Now that we have a good understanding of dc generators, we can begin our study of dc motors. Direct-current motors transform electrical energy into mechanical energy. ...

Overview In a laser interferometer the laser beam is split into two beams by a beam splitter. One of the beams is directed to a mirror located at a certain distance ...

Hardware technologies like FPGAs and ASICs can remove some of the performance burden from the processor while simultaneously guarding against some of the most common ...

Robots are steadily becoming a part of everyday life. They are vacuuming living room floors, assembling hybrid cars, and autonomously performing military reconnaissance ...

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To engineers, “report” is a dreaded word synonymous with “wasted time.” Although the IEEE 829 standard on software test documentation refers to the acronym TPS as ...

With phase-coherent RF vector signal analyzers (VSAs), you can build a phase-comparison direction-finding system. Remember jumping on a trampoline as a child and ...

NI LabVIEW software has been empowering domain experts to create complex applications for more than 20 years, but one of the most powerful LabVIEW features often ...

High school educators teaching students biological science concepts can now do so with a virtual microscope and spectrophotometer they can download for free. These ...

One afternoon, a colleague and I were musing about building a flying robot; not long after, we had selected a design, ordered parts, and started receiving packages ...