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What is a transparent cell or structure in electronics? Most of us especially our colleagues involved in data converters, deal with such objects without noticing their transparent characters. The best example is the famous R-2R ladder one finds in ...

Setting the Stage  A network of working relationships that stretched far beyond my technical group, a sense of pride and accomplishment, and a unique opportunity to inspire and encourage a new generation of engineers. How does one achieve all t...

With ChatGPT’s release, what seemed like science fiction only a few months ago now appears plausible: AI is finally here. Attention-grabbing headlines everywhere demonstrate how AI can write code, teach languages, compose music, and generate ar...

UBC Thunderbots is an engineering design team at the University of British Columbia, where students create and compete with autonomous soccer-playing robots. Since the team began in 2006, we have been continuously improving our robots so we can then ...

For more than ten years, students at the Robotics Working Group of the Technical University of Dresden, or TURAG for short, have been developing mobile robotics solutions independently for participation in national and...

The Bramble family was on vacation in France back in 2019 when we visited Disneyland Paris. While waiting for Mickey Mouse in The Parade at the end of the day, I found myself standing next to a man who looked identical to a lecturer I had at Brunel U...

3D printing is great for rapid prototyping. But what do you do if the 3D printer is too small? Well… just get a bigger one of course! And while you’re at it, why not get one big enough to 3D print a Christmas tree? This is exactly what w...

The "Studentische Arbeitsgruppe Raumfahrt“, STAR Dresden was founded in 2018 at the University of Technology Dresden with the goal to establish a permanent platform for university students to get Hands-On-Experience in space projects. Sinc...

Written by   hirobert and  mkaiserm  This blog post explains how to implement a leakage test using a common piece of equipment, a source measure unit (SMU) and introduces a simplified circuit based on high volt...