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Instrumentation Engineering: A Vast Field That’s Growing

The instruments we see today were either non-existent or worked very differently ten to fifteen years ago. It would not be wrong to say...

BrickPi: Converting Raspberry Pi into a Robot

When prompted what led them to design BrickPi, John Cole, founder, Dexter Industries, shares, “We had a Raspberry Pi sitting on our desks for...

Biomimetics Mimicking Nature For Technological Breakthroughs

APRIL 2011: George de Mestral, a Swiss electrical engineer, invented the hook-and-loop fastener (now inseparable with the name of Velcro) by keenly observing how...

How Much Technology can one ‘Play’ with?

  Babak Rafati became a FIFA referee in 2008 after only two-and-a-half years and 34 matches in the Bundesliga. Rafati always preferred watching the referee...

Semiconductor Fabrication innovation continues, but Goals change

The ‘chips’ are everywhere today, right from mobile phones and computers to microwave ovens and washing machines, and even in children’s toys. There are...

Future Tech Innovations to Watch

Most conventional, additive 3D printing technologies use materials and techniques that are affected by the laws of gravity as well as the smoothness and...

Every true IoT application or solution needs cross-domain expertise…

Narang N. Kishor, mentor and principal design architect of Narnix Technolabs has been closely watching the emerging Internet of Things and is deeply involved...

Open Hardware Sparks Innovation in Robotics

If you speak to robotics enthusiasts in India, they are sure to complain about dearth of low-cost components, lack of affordable but high quality...

ARM climbs one more step on the IoT ladder

Recently, ARM announced the purchase of Sensinode, a Finnish company that develops and promotes open standards for small, connect devices, or the so-called Internet of...

Which Wireless Technology Should You Use?

  There are a large number of wireless technologies available, both standardised and proprietary. Having assessed the most used technologies (to ensure a decent level...