Interesting Engineering

MIT’s 6 mW chip lets tiny drones see and map their surroundings in real time

New MIT chip enables tiny drones and robots to create detailed 3D maps while using minimal power.
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I put my computer’s internet traffic on a map, and I didn’t expect what I found

I expected neat lines pointing to websites, but TapMap showed me the infrastructure my laptop was really talking to ...
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Just example illustrates how the offline geographical maps capabilities can be added to Labview (using .Net control)

Example of the geographical map with data (pins, path, labels and callouts) displaying implementation in Labview. Maps are stored on a local disk in the form of images (tiles). They can be downloaded ...
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High-resolution acoustic mapping of tunable gelatin-based phantoms for ultrasound tissue characterization

Background: The choice of gelatin as the phantom material is underpinned by several key advantages it offers over other materials in the context of ultrasonic applications. Gelatin exhibits spatial ...
GitHub

This is the public repository for LabVIEW code to use the LabJack LJM library.

Compatible with LabVIEW 7.1 or higher. Requires the LabJack UD driver. Note that National Instruments provides a driver called NI-DAQ for their hardware. We have to provide our own library, called LJM ...
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LabVIEW for Power Electronics: Debugging Tools

Most traditional, procedural programming languages have a very steep learning curve. In fact, they require the user to spend a significant amount of time learning the specific text-based syntax ...
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Radiation Mapping and Laser Profiling Using a Robotic Manipulator

The use of a robotic arm manipulator as a platform for coincident radiation mapping and laser profiling of radioactive sources on a flat surface is investigated in this work. A combined scanning head, ...