19 Oct Making it all Wireless
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....
14 Sep Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS)
What is an embedded Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and how can you best utilize it for your next development project?...
07 Sep HSA’s and Medical Devices
Has the Health Savings Account affected consumer's spending habits? Is that affecting the design specification for consumer medical devices?...
31 Aug Error Term Propagation
Building products on the assembly line, we need to be sure all of the parts will fit together. But, manufacturing variations may pose problems. Here how to account for them. ...
03 Aug Notice to Staff: You Rock! – The Mgmt
As a service company, our staff is our most important asset. Without them, we'd just have a bunch of lonely computers sitting around hoping to one day become self-aware. As such, we work hard to find great people, and we've found some of the greatest....
27 Jul Medical Device Interoperability
Is it possible to verify and validate the safety and efficacy of medical devices if they could be connected to unknown current and future products? The medical device industry is working with the FDA to work out the safety issues of device interoperability. ...
20 Jul Engineering Art
This past weekend, Baltimore once again hosted the annual Artscape Festival, the self-professed largest free art festival in America. It’s an amazing festival, with 3 days packed full of more art than you can shake a stick at. A few Key Techers, including myself, were...
08 Jul Resources for Tinkerers
Are you a tinkerer? For those of us that are concerned about how best to crack open a $1,000 MacBook with a critical soda problem yet have the compelling desire to take it apart anyway, there is help....
29 Jun Collecting Very Fine Volumetric Accuracy Data
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...
08 Jun Diagnosing Anemia with a Little Elbow Grease
On the radio I heard about a device that several students at Rice created to help diagnose anemia in the developing world. The device acts as a centrifuge to separate the blood into red blood cells and plasma in just 10 minutes and without the...
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