So Which is Better: LabVIEW, or C?

“Why is LabVIEW better than C?” As a LabVIEW Product Manager, I get asked this question a lot.
Honestly, it is the wrong question to ask. It becomes a valid question with a little nuance and application context (for example, “Which is better for this task, under these constraints?”). Without this detail, it’s like asking why bread is better than flour. 

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Experimental German Lasers Destroy Drones, Simulated Mortars

A German company has brought us one step closer to the kinds of shootouts only seen in Sci-Fi films. Düsseldorf-based Rheinmetall Defense recently tested a 50kW, high-energy laser at their proving ground facility in Switzerland. According to the company, the laser passed the test with “flying colours.”

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More About Electricity Basic Terms

 What’s an Electron?

An electron is one of the three fundamental parts of a molecule, the
other two are the proton and the neutron. One or more protons and neutrons stick together in the center of the molecule in an area called the nucleus. Electrons are very small in comparison to protons and neutrons, and they orbit around the nucleus. Electrons repel each other, and electrons and protons attract to each other.

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Special-Purpose Servo Types and Sizes

Servo motor advantages and comparisons are already discussed now its time to discuss Special-Purpose Servo Types and Sizes.
While the standard-sized servo is the one most commonly used in both robotics and radio controlled models, other R/C servo types, styles, and sizes exist as well.

Quarter-scale (or large-scale) servos

 are about twice the size of standard servos and are significantly more powerful. Quarter-scale servos are designed to be used in large model airplanes, but they also make perfect power motors for a robot.

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Microphone and Types of Microphones

Microphones are conversion devices. Microphones are also known as transducers. as they convert mechanical waves to electrical waves. Once converted to electrical waves. these waves can be amplified.

Microphones are available in many different types and styles:

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Comparison Between TTL ,CMOS & BICMOS

TTL

74 - the "standard TTL" logic family had no letters between the "74" and the specific part number.
74L - Low power (compared to the original TTL logic family), very slow
H - High speed (still produced but generally superseded by the S-series, used in 1970s era computers)
S - Schottky (obsolete)
LS - Low Power Schottky
AS - Advanced Schottky
ALS - Advanced Low Power Schottky
F - Fast (faster than normal Schottky, similar to AS) 

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TITAN Future Robot

Titan's 

Titan the Robot is an entertainment concept unlike anything on earth and is utilised by event management companies worldwide to add something very special any festival, corporate party or as the ultimate in shopping mall entertainment. Titan is always very popular at festivals, trade shows, shopping centres, not to mention Halloween, Bonfire Night and Christmas events.

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Special Kinds of Transformers

Tapped Transformer

Tapped transformers have an additional connection, or tap, on their primary and/or secondary windings. An additional tap lead on the secondary gives a transformer three possible output voltages.

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5 Things You Should Decide Before Making Robot

Having decided what type of robot to be built, the next step is to draw up a first specification. It may have to be revised later — at least its minor details.

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Why Digital Storage of Data? Why Not Analog ?

The basic goal of digital memory is to provide a means to store and access binary data: sequences of 1's and 0's. The digital storage of information holds advantages over analog techniques much the same as digital communication of information holds advantages over analog communication. This is not to say that digital data storage is unequivocally superior to analog, but it does address some of the more common problems associated with analog techniques and thus finds immense popularity in both consumer and industrial applications.

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War Between AC(TESLA) & DC(EDISON)

You might wonder why ac is even used. Isn’t it a lot more complicated than dc?
Well, ac is easy to generate from turbines, as you’ve just seen. Rotating coil-and magnet devices always produce ac, and in order to get dc from this, rectification and filtering are necessary. These processes can be difficult to achieve with high voltages.

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200+ Engineering Symbols

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My Inventions Nicola Tesla's Autobiography

My Inventions

Nikola Tesla's Autobiography


At the age of 63 Tesla tells the story of his creative life.

First published in 1919 in the Electrical Experimenter magazine.

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Follow Guiness Book Of Engineering Feats

Engineering Feats World record

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Mr Electrical:30 fun facts about engineering, science and technology

1.      220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year.

2.      A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

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Mr:Electrical :How Tesla Coils Work

A classic Tesla coil consists of two inductive-capacitive (LC) oscillators, loosely coupled to one another. An LC oscillator has two main components, 
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