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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Deadline Extended: Enter the ‘Create the Future’ Contest

The 2021 “Create the Future” Design Contest is open, and we want to hear your big ideas.

Blog: Transportation

As Vehicles Becomes More Complex, What Should Be Tested First?

Software and electrical engineering is converging in today’s vehicles. A reader asks our expert: “How do you decide which items to test first?”

Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping

A Robot ‘Hears,’ Using Ear from a Locust

A robot being developed at Tel Aviv University "hears" electrical signals, thanks to a natural sensor: the ear of a dead locust.

White Papers: Manufacturing & Prototyping

The New Collaboration: A Guide to Transforming Product Design

This eBook explores the “New Collaboration,” showing how today’s modern cloud-based CAD radically improves the way product development teams work together in the following...

White Papers: Manufacturing & Prototyping

White Paper: IVT vs. V-Roller

Historically, one of the more commonly used linear guidance systems has been cam rollers of V-profile running on separate steel rails fastened to a structure. In recent years, PBC Linear has introduced another...

On-Demand Webinars: Automotive

How to Achieve Multidisciplinary, Collaborative, Concurrent Virtual Engineering through Simulation

The automotive industry continues to be one of the main beneficiaries of simulation technology to reduce cost and meet the demanding...

White Papers: Test & Measurement

White Paper: Simplicity® Bearings from PBC Linear vs. DryLin® Bearing from Igus

This white paper combines months of application research and experiments with years of recorded data on each product, bringing a final resolution as to which...

White Papers: Mechanical & Fluid Systems

White Paper: How to Design a Retail Kiosk for Unattended Retail

Usage of unattended retail kiosks continues to expand beyond movies and snack foods into pharmaceuticals, electronics, games, cosmetics, and more. Within the framework of kiosk...

On-Demand Webinars: Electronics & Computers

Contactless Position, Torque, and Force Sensing for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Applications

Today’s demand for products with improved safety, reliability, and efficiency makes sensors increasingly necessary and, in some cases, even mandatory. These sensors must be accurate, reliable, and long-lasting while remaining affordable. This...

White Papers: Design

White Paper: IVT vs Profile Rail

Profile rail (PRT) is a common linear guidance system where re-circulating ball bearings run on profiled steel rails fastened to a structure. One alternative, Integral-V™ Technology (IVT) from PBC Linear,...

Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers

Do You See Applications for Electronics-Free Robots?

In our lead INSIDER story today, UCSD researcher Dylan Drotman talked to Tech Briefs about his team’s air-powered robot.

White Papers: Test & Measurement

Maximum Efficiency: Non-Contact Temperature Measurement of Plastics

In plastics processing, where thermal processes play a particularly important role, temperature is the decisive measured variable. Only precise temperature control ensures...

Articles: Imaging

3D Display — No Headset Required

Learn about a variety of holographic 3D immersive displays.

Special Reports: Electronics & Computers

Unmanned Systems - March 2021

Drones that swarm and change shape mid-flight... autonomous combat vehicles on the battlefield...the latest in counter-UAS technology. Read about new advances in air and ground unmanned systems in this report...

Technology Leaders: RF & Microwave Electronics

Light Field Imaging Technology

Learn about light-field candidates like camera arrays, plenoptic cameras, active cameras with depth sensor, and the newly developed focal-stack camera.

Technology Leaders: Imaging

Micro-Cameras Bring New Video Applications into Focus

Powerful, tiny cameras provide unique streaming-video solutions for NASA robots and defense applications.

Products: Electronics & Computers

New Products: March 2021 Photonics & Imaging Technology

Near-eye displays, optical inspection systems, UV glass, and more.

Articles: Photonics/Optics

Cost-Effective Day & Night Marking Using Lasers

The marking provides easy-to-see legends on plastic buttons under widely varying illumination conditions.

Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Hyperspectral Cameras and Data Quality

Any hyperspectral system needs to maintain a stable and accurate radiometric and spectral calibration.

Application Briefs: Imaging

Add LiDAR to ADAS for Pedestrian Safety

While ADAS has improved freeway and high-speed driving, the basic need for collision mitigation with pedestrians and bicyclists has mostly remained unaddressed.

Articles: Photonics/Optics

Creating High-Precision Glass for NIR Lasers

See what kinds of applications require high-precision laser glass with demanding dimensional tolerances and high-power laser coatings.

Products: Test & Measurement

New Products: March 2021 Sensor Technology

Rain detectors, beacons, flow meters, and more.

Application Briefs: Imaging

The Sensing Systems That Make ADAS Work

See what kinds of sensors are supporting self-driving vehicles.

Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Quality 4.0: How Wireless IoT Sensor Networks are Reshaping Manufacturing

The ability to identify hidden patterns, predict future issues, forecast usage and costs, and derive insights from IoT sensor data will reshape the industrial process forever.