Today s Highlights: Robot carves pumpkins, Evolution of MEMS, Robot cars race at DevCon 2012, more

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October 31, 2012 Wednesday EDITION

Electronic Products brings you the latest articles, research and products to inspire your design.

DevCon 2012: Robot cars (and their student creators) race to win It started out slowly, with testing and retesting, reworking of sensors, adjusting code. In the couple of hours before…more Presidents only use useful technology The President of the United States sets the tone for many things: from fashions, to foods, to sports,…more Robot carves your pumpkins Pumpkin carving is a traditional Halloween pastime. Unfortunately, the process can be long and tedious. Now there is a…more It's Benchtop, Rack Mountable Week on ElectronicProducts.com. This category includes R&D and laboratory instruments including oscilloscopes, system multimeters, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, and more.

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Breaking paradigms in biochemical sensing You may remember the race to map the human genome that started during the 1990s. The goal of the…more Designing truly portable lightning detectors Weather forecasting over the years has been transformed, from “instincts of farmers” to a much more scientific approach that…more Evolution of MEMS toward a semiconductor model Almost since the inception of MEMS, the idea of integrating MEMS devices with CMOS circuits has been a grand…more Finding common ground for MEMS standards Both electronics OEMs and their customers have conflicting feelings about standardization, in general, that have resulted in some lively…more Heat pump achieves greater efficiency The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ClimateMaster in Oklahoma City, OK, have collaborated to develop…more