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10 Tech Tuesday – Tactile Displays
Displays; we look at them and now we touch them, and now we are getting closer to them giving haptic feedback. Our button phones and our keyboards give us haptic and audio feedback that is a large part of our experience of interacting with them, now researchers are figuring out how to give similar feedback […]
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Computer vision
JAI makes a great computer vision camera that has a linux stack in it and just sends you the necessary info over CAT5 also check out I know it looks like a coffee maker that says sick on it but it is a laser based topographic range finder made by SICK who also make some […]
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Intelligent Power Control
Network Power Switch Jr. Web Power Switch II Synaccess NP-02 Ambery IP-P1 Pulizzi Recently Bought by Eaton (UL ListeD)
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Brooklyn Hackers
WNYC does a Take Away on Brooklyn Hackers
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Capacitors for Capacitive sensing
These are the recommended types of capacitors to use when using capacitive sensors like this MC34940 from freescale Ceramic CS Ceramic NPO or COG PPS film I believe it is because of their tolerance for temperature change. this is a good page talking about different capacitor types