November 2008

Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Team 1717 – FIRST Robotics

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    This video is from my trip to Atlanta for the 2008 FIRST Robotic Championship.

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Powercast Wireless Power System

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  In this video from RoboBusiness 2008, we interview Steven from Powercast who shows off some cool wireless power technology. From the Powercast website: Founded in 2003, Powercast developed a receiver module with breakthrough efficiency levels. Coupled with a transmitter that sends RF energy using algorithms developed by Powercast, the Powercast Wireless Power Platform™ was [...]

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LabVIEW based electric guitar effects pedals

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A video from NIWeek 2008. Benjamin Cook really had fun building this electric guitar effects system based around NI hardware and LabVIEW. This is a wireless audio processing project. A 550 MHz transmitter transmits FM modulated data to a 5600 down converter. It down converts the data to 25MHz. That gets sent to a 5640R [...]

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