Electronics For You March 2012 Issue Vol. 44 No. 3 Technology Focus Robot Mules, Birds and Snakes Helping on the Warfront From drones and other surveillance bots, to robotic surgeons and payload carriers, robots are lending a helping hand to military forces in many countries. But it will be long, or never, before these replace man on the warfront. After all, they have neither heart and mind, nor any reason to fight
Buyers’ Guide Kits That Maketh Robots Robots are making their presence felt. These indomitable marvels are not just confined to high-tech labs but being created in our own drawing rooms—thanks to robotic kits	Circuit Ideas Servo Motor Tester When using a servo motor in a project, if the servo motor does not respond as per the input, how to make sure that the fault is not in the servo motor but the circuit or logic?

EFY Report Test & Measurement What’s Coming Up Next While today’s technology offers solutions for monitoring or remote reporting via mobile devices, test organisations need new expertise to unite the networking, Web services and mobile app portions of the solution	Manufacture Ensuring Quality and Reliability of Electronic Systems Learn about the design steps to be followed to make a quality and reliable product

Solar Are Solar PV Farms Polluting? Generating solar power using photovoltaic (PV) cells is not a zero-emission technology. However, following all international standards and protocols is considered adequate to curb pollution	Interview Software optimisation helped us greatly reduce the chipset cost AllGo Embedded Systems was founded by professionals with a total of 70+ years of experience in DSP and embedded system development. Their solution development experience spans automotive infotainment systems, high-definition video, shortrange wireless, consumer audio systems and CD players. Darshak Vasavada, co-founder of AllGo Embedded Systems, speaks to Dilin Anand, technical correspondent at EFY, about Stamp—a low-cost customisable tablet developed by AllGo

eStyle First look! . Android Smartphones . Set-top Box with Digital Video Recorder . Sparkling Laptops . Sensing Notebook . Multimedia Keyboard-Mouse Combo . 5.1-channel Mutimedia Speakers . GizMo ByTes . 3D Touch Phone . Portable Projector	Event EFY Expo 2012: A Big Show, Resulting In Bigger Business U nder the cloud of a global economic slowdown and the depreciating rupee, everyone thought that organising an electronics exposition would be a bad idea. Yet, EFY proved this wrong.

Software Section Holi e-Card in ‘C’ e-cards are digital greeting cards created on the Web and sent through e-mail. With the festival of colours ‘Holi’ round the corner, here we present an e-card program for Holi greetings that is written in ‘C’ language. Download source code	Circuit Ideas Home Appliances Control Using Telephone Using this circuit, you can control up to seven electrical appliances through a telephone. The circuit can switch on/off the appliances in two modes.

Construction Dynamic Display Using LED Strip Surface-mount device (SMD) LEDs are becoming popular because of their low power consumption and high brightness. These LEDs are readily available in the market in many colours both as single LEDs and LED strips. Download source code	Construction Automatic Car Parking Space Management System Car parking lots in buildings are usually managed manually with manned kiosks that allow the cars into the parking lot based on the space available. Download source code

Circuit Ideas 1Hz Precision Clock Timer This timer makes an LED flash once every second along with a beep. The timing circuit uses a quartz crystal available in digital watches or clocks which generates precise frequency of 32.768 kHz.	Circuit Ideas Dual-Colour Stroboscope Stroboscope is a device used to make a cyclically moving object appear slow-moving or stationary. This is realised by illuminating the object intermittently with short pulses of light.

Technology Low-Temperature Electronics for Space Cryogenic robotics, low-temperature electronics and high-temperature superconductivity need collaboration to shape the future of lunar research and exploration	Internet Are You Ready to Transit to IPv6? What is IPv6, what if you don’t transit to it and how to do it best—find out

Wireless Why WiMAX Will Not Fail WiMAX provides robust access control, data privacy and data integrity using sophisticated authentication and encryption technologies. This article investigates the architecture enabling the high-level security	Chip ‘Made For Mobile’ Microprocessors There is a great degree of mobile-desktop convergence happening, as palpable from the current-generation tablets and smartphones. Yet, mobile devices have special requirements that require special processors

Lighting Circuit Protection for AC LED Lighting Systems Pairing a polymeric positive temperature coefficient device with a metal-oxide varistor provides a completely resettable and coordinated circuit protection solution for AC LED lighting systems	Career After BE What, M.Tech or MBA? Engineering graduates having a management degree are perfect for project management, front-end sales, field applications and customer facing jobs. However, if an organisation is innovation hungry, pure engineering with master’s specialisation is a lethal combination

Innovation Robot That Breathes Life Into AC Ducts DuctBot can inspect and easily travel inside the sleek confines of the air-conditioner ducts and cleanse them of all the dust and grime, enhancing the energy efficiency of the airconditioner	Interview Electronics can benefit from multiphysics simulation Bjorn Sjodin, VP, product management, COMSOL Inc. and Vineet Dravid, managing director, COMSOL India, spoke to Jalaja Ramanunni of EFY Bengaluru, about the relevance of multiphysics in the field of electronics, product capabilities and its efficiencies

Circuit Ideas Active Reflector for Pedestrian Safety Pedestrians crossing roads in badly-lit areas, particularly at night or in the early morning, run a risk of accident. There are readymade arm bands available that reflect the light of incoming traffic to catch the attention of the drivers.
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