Of Machines and Motors
Last semester I took a machine and motors class. It has got to be one of the more difficult classes I have ever taken. Not only because it dealt with
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Herd Mentality, Showing a New Way Forward
Back in May 2015, Tesla released the Tesla Power Wall a 7kWh home battery. The idea being that it can be connected to the DC bus in a home and charge
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Power Management the Hux Way
Since processors are following Moore's Law and batteries are not, people have to look at the other side of the equation, the load, to increase battery
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Power Storage
There have been some really interesting innovations in electrochemical storage devices (e.g. batteries and supercapacitors) in my area of focus. These
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One of the Things is Sort of Like the Other
This semester I took Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems (CC). Basically, the idea behind it is to make groups of robots behave like schools of
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Not Your Father's Tear Down... Not Anymore
For my senior project I am supposed to program an Android app that uses Bluetooth to communicate to a timing board. This sounds reasonable; I am an el
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Time to Take All This Knowledge to the Next Level
I am getting to that time in my life, or rather that time in my college career, where I am expected to do a bit more. I now am moving from absorbing i
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Timing is Everything Even for Yes and No Questions
One of the things that comes with studying electrical engineering is that people assume you know the answers to all kinds of questions. Some are good
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Self-Driving Cars Offer Interesting Transportation Possibilities
According to some published studies, the area has the 10th worst traffic in the U.S. and the longest average commute in the US. I have given extensive
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Year End Project Puts Sights and Sounds into Perspective
My telecoms class had an end of the year project. You know it is interesting how you do not really think about all you have learned and how fascinatin
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From a Little STEM Grows an Exciting Future
I got to the end of my last blog and found myself so excited about the possibilities of Radio Frequency Identification that I could not help but sit d
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You Can't Be Creative With What You Don't Know
Awhile back I was walking past the door to the lab where I work and noticed that there was a meeting going on to which I had not been invited. I guess
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Third Harmonic!
I know there are all kinds of rules against anthropomorphizing the equipment with which you work. It makes you overly attached to it, but I just can't
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