Tag Archives: component selection

Jessica Fisher

When life gives you lemons, make a lemon battery!

11.10.2010 by Jessica Fisher

Inside most kitchens, a lemon leads a normal life, being integrated into a delicious dish or drink. But many science students have found in their classroom experiments that a lemon is no mere fruit.

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Chad Schneider

Making it all wireless

10.19.2010 by Chad Schneider

As you’ve probably noticed, wireless products are extremely popular. So, what is the difference between one wireless technology and another? Here’s a really rough breakdown.

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Dave Hershey

Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS)

09.14.2010 by Dave Hershey

What is an embedded Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and how can you best utilize it for your next development project?

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Chad Schneider

HSA’s and medical devices

09.07.2010 by Chad Schneider

Has the Health Savings Account affected consumer’s spending habits? Is that affecting the design specification for consumer medical devices?

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Chad Schneider

Collecting very fine volumetric accuracy data

06.29.2010 by Chad Schneider

As part of the V&V test procedure, we designed a gravimetric means to characterize the volumetric and flow-rate accuracy of a couple of precision injection instruments. With this setup, we’re able to achieve measurement resolution of just 0.1 milligram and reduced the error due to water evaporation to 40 times better than using a mineral oil emulsion.

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Chad Schneider

When To Do It Yourself

05.11.2010 by Chad Schneider

Whether to build a custom product or go with something off the shelf can be a tough decision. There are several factors to consider when shopping for off-the-shelf solutions, and cost is only one of them.

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Chad Schneider

Starting Your Product Specification

12.15.2009 by Chad Schneider

Creating a detailed Product Specification is one of the most important steps one can take at the beginning of new product development. If the spec defines the entire sphere of possibilities, what needs to be included (and excluded) here?

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Chad Schneider

Disruptive Innovation

10.12.2009 by Chad Schneider

Designing medical devices can be an expensive undertaking. It can cost thousands of dollars for a traditional setup to make microfluidic chips or a centrifuge to isolate the components of a multi-constituent sample. Luckily, the creative minds that are focused on solving complex, technical problems don’t stop working when there’s a tight budget.

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Lei Zong

Selecting Flash Memory

09.14.2009 by Lei Zong

Flash memory is becoming increasingly popular in portable devices as the main storage medium. Flash memory offers advantages such as a serial interface, fast access time (compared to hard drives), and low power consumption, making them a popular choice for embedded medical devices.

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