NASA confirms Europa Clipper mission to study Jupiter's icy moon
Artist's impression of the Europa ClipperNASA/JPL-CaltechVIEW 1 IMAGENASA has given the official go-ahead for the Europa Clipper deep-space mission to make a detailed survey of one of Jupiter's largest...
View ArticleF-5 Freedom Fighter / Tiger
The development of the Northrop F-5 began in 1954 when a Northrop team toured Europe and Asia to examine the defense needs of NATO and SEATO countries. A 1955 company design study for a lightweight...
View ArticleOH-6A Cayuse AH-6J Little Bird Defender 500
The Boeing (McDonnell Dougles) (formerly Hughes model 369) OH-6A, was designed for use as a military scout during the Vietnam war to meet the U.S. Army's need for an extremely maneuverable light...
View ArticleMIT Researchers Introduce a Battery-Free, Underwater Sensor
Energy harvesting is something that many engineers have heard of but MIT has taken this concept to a whole new level by introducing an underwater sensor that has no battery.Imagine a sensor with...
View ArticleDisadvantages and Advantages of Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting is a way to obtain electrical energy from the one already available in the environment. Where is energy harvesting appropriate in designs?One of the main issues in designing modern...
View ArticleWhat is a Deaerator – Working, Types & Applications
Generally, we use certain equipment to generate Electricity. Among them, a boiler plays a key role. For the proper function of the boiler and in order to avoid corrosion inside the boiler we use the...
View ArticleWorld's largest all-electric ferry completes maiden voyage
We've seen a few all-electric ferries quietly and cleanly moving people, cars and goods between ports in northern Europe, but Ellen is reported to be the world's largest. It made its first commercial...
View ArticleIndustrial Robotics Roundup: Articulated vs. SCARA vs. Cartesian Robots
From the typical pick-and-place down to the high-precision cobots, industrial robotics are changing rapidly.There has been astonishing progress in the field of robotics, and the future is here.On a...
View ArticleTime of Flight 3D Sensors Roundup: TI, Espros, AMS, and Artilux
Learn the different ways companies are using time-of-flight 3D sensor technology to create products for facial recognition, smart cars, and manufacturing.Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors measure the linear...
View ArticleT-34C Turbo Mentor
The T-34C aircraft is an unpressurized two-place, tandem cockpit low-wing single-engine monoplane manufactured by Raytheon Aircraft Company (Formally Beech Aircraft), Wichita, Kansas. The aircraft is...
View ArticleEA-6B Prowler
The EA-6B Prowler is included in every aircraft carrier deployment. The EA-6B's primary mission is to protect fleet surface units and other aircraft by jamming hostile radars and communications. The...
View ArticleAlbino lizards become world's first gene-edited reptiles
One of the albino lizard hatchlings, one of the first reptiles to have its genes edited through CRISPRSo far, the CRISPR gene-editing system has been successfully used in bacteria, plants, mice,...
View ArticleVantablack BMW X6: The blackest car that's ever existed
The world's first Vantablack car is a BMW X6BMW Vantablack, first announced in 2014, is a rare real-life special effect, a coating so black that it sucks in almost every photon that hits it. It makes...
View Article"World's most powerful laptop" boasts a 24 GB GPU
At IFA this week, Asus unveiled the world's most powerful laptop, the ProArt StudioBook OneFor people who are just browsing the web, writing documents and checking email, any old laptop will basically...
View ArticleAcer's $14,000 Thronos Air gaming chair will massage away your battle stress
The Predator Thronos Air, successor to last year's Predator Thronos, is described as the ultimate gamer's caveAcer/PredatorOriginally launched last year to much hullabaloo – and shock at the huge...
View ArticleHe Trained With The Infantry, Served as an Actor & Journalist in WWII
After graduating high school in Kansas City, a young Lon Gilbert Amick followed his older brother’s footsteps by attending William Jewell College in nearby Liberty.Two years later, he made the...
View ArticleReviewed: Spitfire! The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter...
The Battle of Britain has spawned a zillion books, several movies and a whole lot more and there are no signs of the trend abating. But those tumultuous days of 1940 are becoming increasingly distant...
View ArticleTools for Future EEs: New Texas Instruments Robotics System Learning Kit...
The TI-RSLK Max allows students to gain hands-on experience building a robot and programming it.The TI-RSLK MAX is the latest edition to Texas Instruments’ popular Robotics System Learning Kit...
View ArticleDARPA’s Subterranean Challenge Tasks Engineers with Communication and Sensor...
DARPA’s Subterranean (SubT) Challenge seeks to find new ways to cope with complex underground environmentsYou may know that DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is a US governmental...
View ArticleVisual RF Detection, a New UAV RF System, and FCC RF Regulations: Radio...
Here's a news from around the RF spectrum that may be of interest to you, the practicing electrical engineer.Radio frequency signals can fall into such designations as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UHF, VHF, and...
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