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Engineering Newswire 2: Advertising on toilet paper
September 5, 2012 9:43 am Videos CommentsIn this episode of Engineering Newswire, toilet paper advertising with scannable QR codes; Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe lab gets threatened with closure; growing a new foot; cars that communicate with each other to prevent crashes; an iTypewriter that defeats the purposes of touch technology; and Apple wins patent grapple with Samsung.
Engineering Newswire: Toilets of the future
August 27, 2012 10:44 am | by PD&D Broadcasting Crew Videos CommentsIn this episode of Engineering Newswire, the toilet gets redesigned; test flight of hypersonic Waverider fails; NASA's Morfius Project crashes and burns; MIT's autonomous planes flies indoors; sunglasses that record and take pictures; and NASA's Curiosity receives a brain transplant.
Multiple frequency USB speakers with Kinetis K40 MCU and SGTL5000
August 23, 2012 2:27 pm Videos CommentsWant to learn how to create USB based speakers? In this video, you'll learn how you can build speakers to play any sound from any USB system using only TOWER K40X256, TWR-Audio and TWR- serial modules. Watch how you can increase and decrease volume as well as change the frequency on the fly without any audio distortion.
What is RF? Basic training
August 23, 2012 2:14 pm Videos CommentsEverything you wanted to know about RF (radio frequency) technology: Cover "RF Basics" in less than 14 minutes! NXP Semiconductor covers topics like "What is RF?", "Frequency and Wavelength", "Electromagnetic Spectrum", "Power", "Decibel", "Bandwidth", "RF Power + Small Signal Application Frequencies", and "United States Frequency Allocations".
In Their Own Words: Brent Jett, Commercial Crew Program Deputy Manager
August 23, 2012 10:02 am | by NASAKennedy Videos CommentsCommercial Crew Program Deputy Manager Brent Jett discusses the importance of continuing research aboard the International Space Station and what the future holds for human spaceflight. Jett describes what it means to be in commercial crew research and finding alternative ways to get astronauts to the International Space Center-- Kennedy Space Center
President praises Curiosity team on This Week @NASA
August 23, 2012 9:38 am | by This Week @NASA Videos CommentsOn This Week @Nasa, the Curiousity team gets a special phone call from Barack Obama, praising them for their efforts and congratulating the team on the success of their recent Mars landing. Listen in to see the actual video clip and hear the Commander in chief say hello.
Design issues in modern warfare
August 23, 2012 9:31 am Videos CommentsCounter insurgency warfare demands split-second decision making and real time information. In this episode, Vince and Allison review the design of a throwable reconnaissance robot.Engineering.com tackles the idea of Design Issues in Modern Warfare
Hypersonic "Waverider" Aircraft Breaks Apart
August 23, 2012 9:28 am | by Engineering.com Videos CommentsThis Week in Engineering - Tiny cubesat thrusters; hypersonic Waverider crashes; bird-friendly glass; robot inchworm; room-temperature masers; and DNA data storage. Hypersonic "Waverider" Aircraft Breaks Apart
SECNAV on the Great Green Fleet
August 23, 2012 9:02 am Videos CommentsSecretary of the Navy Ray Mabus speaks to a military reporter about the debut of the Great Green Fleet during the 2012 Rim of the Pacific exercise, and what it means for the future of the Navy and its reliance on foreign oil. The U.S.S. Nimitz carrier strike group participated in a demonstration as part of the “Great Green Fleet” initiative, which aims to extract half of the Navy’s total energy from alternative sources by 2020.
Mars Rover's "seven minutes of terror"
August 23, 2012 8:49 am Videos CommentsNASA planned one of the most complicated spacecraft landings ever attempted for the Curiosity rover's touchdown on August 6 at about 1:30 am. ET. The complex procedure involved the use of the largest supersonic parachute ever built and a "sky crane" to lower the rover onto the Martian surface. "If any one thing doesn't work just right," says one engineer, "it's game over!"
Germany hosting massive tech nerds party
August 23, 2012 8:37 am Videos CommentsThousands of geeks and nerds have gathered at an unused airport in Berlin to hold their version of a summer festival. But the event may play an important role in driving future technology. From the AP report: Bringing together developers, designers, and businesspeople fosters intense brainstorming and networking.
NI Week 2012: National Instruments' new vector signal transceiver
August 14, 2012 1:48 pm Videos CommentsAt NI Week 2012, Luke Schreier of National Instruments discusses the company's new Vector Signal Transceiver, the PXI Express 5644R.
Wired Magazine: Where do earbuds come from?
August 7, 2012 4:14 pm | by Wired Magazine Videos CommentsWired contributor Steven Leckart visits Plantronics, the company responsible for creating the headset that transmitted "One small step for man..." on the moon in 1969. Now, they make ear molds to collect data for improving headsets.- Wired Magazine
The Golden Touch: Behind the Webb Telescope
August 7, 2012 4:06 pm | by HubbleSiteChannel Videos CommentsThe Webb Telescope's mirrors are coated in an extremely thin film of gold. This gold layer, only a few millionths of an inch thick, enables the mirrors to best reflect the infrared light the telescope seeks. The thinner the layer, the better off the telescope will be -- every bit of weight counts when a telescope as big as Webb is being lifted into space by a rocket. Join us at Quantum Coating in New Jersey, where engineers are vaporizing gold to apply a thin, even layer to the telescope's mirrors. - HubbleSiteChannel
This week from NASA: Landing Curiousity, test firings for project Morpheus, International space station
August 7, 2012 4:02 pm Videos CommentsThis week on @NASA Following a daring plunge through the Martian Atmosphere -- billed as 7-minutes of Terror, The Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover made a successful, on-target landing on the Red Planet in Gale Crater. Curiosity is scheduled to conduct a two-year mission to investigate the most intriguing places on Mars in an effort to determine if microbial life is possible on the planet. Also, engineers at the Johnson Space Center have conducted test firings of the Project Morpheus Lander, the quickest trip ever to the International Space Station of an unpiloted Russian Progress resupply ship, Marking History at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility and more! -NASA Television
