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after several failed tries, came up with a suitable cyberheart for Bill; it even has a remote bracelet for greater troubleshooting convenience. [IronMan parts! slightly modded]
ten and m are working on other miscellaneous devices from their lab
(TECHNOLOGY for Toy Sunday)
We lived in Dubai, UAE from 1991 to 1996 and I worked at a campus of the Higher Colleges of Technology. These pictures include college functions as well as staff get togethers.
These images are directly from the scanner and rough due to the age of the photographs. Over time, I may do a bit of editing on these.
While no technological masterpiece, this old egg beater is an obsolete dinosaur by today's standards - these days cakes are mostly made using electric mixers or food processors. But this old egg beater has served me well, having mixed cakes week in, week out when my family was growing up.
I could have taken a shot of the egg beater doing nothing, but thought I should whip up a 'throw it all in together and mix' type cake. The recipe called for the eggs to be beaten with some caster sugar till thick and creamy and then add the rest of the ingredients and combine. Now it's cooked, I suppose I'm going to have to eat it so my efforts aren't wasted.
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25 May 2015 Macro Mondays: technology
Almost time of those of us who live in NM to convert from heat to swamp coolers, which brought to mind a technology that's fairly old, but oh so important. The pilot light of our home's furnace.
Caption: The image behind NASA technologist Jacob Englander shows the trajectory to Odysseus, a Trojan asteroid. Englander used his new orbit-determination tool to create the design (not associated with any mission or mission proposal) because a colleague suggested Odysseus was a difficult-to-reach target.
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Credit: NASA/Goddard/Pat Izzo
Traveling to remote locations sometimes involves navigating through stop-and-go traffic, traversing long stretches of highway and maneuvering sharp turns and steep hills. The same can be said for guiding spacecraft to far-flung destinations in space. It isn’t always a straight shot.
A NASA technologist has developed a fully automated tool that gives mission planners a preliminary set of detailed directions for efficiently steering a spacecraft to hard-to-reach interplanetary destinations, such as Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and most comets and asteroids.
The tool, the Evolutionary Mission Trajectory Generator “offers a paradigm shift from what we normally do,” said Jacob Englander, a technologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who devised a concept for his computer-based tool while a doctorate student at the University of Illinois in Champaign. “EMTG will be used, and already is being used, to develop trajectories for proposed Goddard missions that cannot be designed using any other current tool.”
Read more: 1.usa.gov/16EhP9m
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Must watch: Inception: Your First Lesson
[ MIT - Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences ]
Near Future Technology is our first foray into the slightly daunting world of NFT's and just like us she's unsure of what happens next. Blockchain here we come...
Near Future Technology is available on Opensea here
Barbara was technically just a sophisticated computer program with access to an android body although her programming didn't allow her the luxury of knowing that. She also felt completely heartbroken at the demise of her tamagotchi and her programming definitely wasn't supposed to allow that either. She didn't really have a heart after all.
It was all very confusing both for her and for the scientists who were studying her. She was the first of her kind and was currently confounding all expectations. She would gaze out of the window for hours at a time and would lament at length about her deceased digital friend. How would she cope in this brave new world...
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Kind of busy... Catch up soon... Thanks for looking ... :-)
New blog: I was looking for an affordable action camera and this is it. This camera is everything I would expect it to be.
REVIEW: Sunplus SP5K Series
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Oh how photography has changed over the years from big bulky complicated cameras to the small digital ones of today.
This drone took to the sky over Finland to assess the suitability of one particular terrestrial technology for space: the radar systems found in many of today’s cars, responsible for automated cruise control and other safe driving functions.
ESA worked with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland to test the suitability of automotive 77 GHz ‘frequency-modulated continuous-wave’ (FMCW) radar for entry, descent and landing on a planetary surface and for in-orbit rendezvous scenarios.
“These kinds of radars are commonplace in automotive vehicles today; the first one using the E-band millimetre-wave frequencies was introduced by Mercedes Benz before the turn of the century,” explains ESA microwave engineer Vaclav Valenta, overseeing the project.
“Most current space-based altimeters and ranging radar systems operate in the pulsed mode - emitting a pulse and then measuring the time it takes for reflected pulse to be received. By contrast, FMCW radars emit a continuous signal that is chirped, that is, swept rapidly in frequency – so the reflected signals can be continuously compared with the transmitted one without any interruption and processed according to build up a coherent picture of multiple targets. This brings several advantages over pulsed radar systems.”
The principle is not new, FMCW radar at lower frequencies acquired space heritage long time ago – already the Apollo landing and rendezvous radar relied on the FMCW principle, likewise, the Huygens probe that landed on the surface of the Saturn’s moon Titan back in 2005 employed FMCW radar. However, those radars operated at much lower frequencies than the FMCW system deployed in this project.
Vaclav adds: “It’s a very simple, straightforward implementation. That is why it is so interesting for us – we know it is cutting edge technology and we can at the same time benefit from economies of scale because millions of these radar chipsets are being produced, to a high level of reliability.”
The test campaign in Torbacka, Finland, assessed the performance of a drone-mounted lander radar using automotive radar chipsets. They were tasked with mimicking the planned descent of ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover.
“We’re also interested in the use of FMCW radar for orbital rendezvous, but focused on entry, descent and landing because this is especially challenging due to the relatively low output power of these chips, at the level of few milliwatts,” comments Henrik Forstén of VTT.
“Therefore, if you want to have a first signal acquisition at an altitude of 6 km – which was the requirement from ExoMars – then we had to boost the signal gain, which is why we added horn antennas to the drone’s radar payload. For practical reasons drone tests were carried out at up to 500 m, though the functionality was verified up to 6 km overall.”
Vaclav explains: “In the end we demonstrated we can achieve the necessary range, velocity, and measurement rates for a radar that is extremely cost-effective, compact and low power. We would like to perform de-risking activities, for instance to confirm the various chipsets can endure space radiation, then the next step would really be to fly a demonstrator mission in space.”
The project was supported through ESA’s Technology Development Element, investigating promising new technologies for space.
Credits: VTT
Computers and electronic technology are in the classrooms for good. Many schools have 1 to 1 initiatives that put a computing device into the hands of each student. This graphic is a challenge for teachers to move beyond the obvious and traditional uses of computers (browsing, clicking, chatting, and gaming) to inventing, designing, creating, building, sharing. Inspired by a Mitch Resnick Lifelong Kindergarten video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rlLml5ReQ
We don't just browse, click, chat, game, we invent, we design, we create, we build, we share.
I really like my backlit keyboard shot I did for the '5' theme an would ideally have used that shot but I challenged myself to find something different. I think this shot is ok, I still prefer the backlit keyboard but this a good as well. I do like the reflections of the green and orange lights and the overall blue hue.
Photos from a Sunday outing to battle boredom.
New and old. This barn has weathered a lot of wind, and the turbine is now turning it into electricity.
@ Crowne Plaza Hotel NYC
I was coming up on the escalator when I saw this scene. In the next few seconds the girl got up and moved away.
X’Trapolis set arriving into South Kensington station on a Laverton service. Despite being a modern EMU set developed by Alstom, the suspension used on the bogies are springs which provide quite an uncomfortable ride. 10/3/21
An old building technology book I found on my bookshelves at work. Very old... The glasses? Not mine... :-)
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WEEK 47.2 – Office Depot, Southaven, MS
Stepping inside, we're greeted by the technology aisles! While this shot looks straight-on at them, you might be able to tell from the light placements above that the aisles are directed at an angle. To the right are more angled aisles (which I didn't get pictures of, primarily due to the fact that they have newer [likely printed in-store] unbranded aisle signs) featuring general office merchandise.
(c) 2015 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
the growth and development of technology is phenomenal and its users are getting younger. instead of toys, children nowadays are given tablets or phones for presents. since gadget prices have dropped, it has become accessible for anyone to buy no matter what their status in life is. when they wake up in the morning , most of these kids will simply reach out for their gadgets. and for for majority of these users , games are the most popular usage for these devices.
This was a difficult one! I wanted to find something really interesting but a busy week didn’t really have time to hunt for something. This is Richmond lock and weir and the technology is the machinery to make this work. Mostly hidden in this photo but I particularly liked the shadow on the footpath and the striking clouds.