Blogs about Design Phase

• Sending and Receiving SMS Messages with mbed

  Andrew Back

  Thanks to a library created by Vodafone R&D only a few lines of code are needed to send and receive SMS messages with mbed.

• Progress on the Renesas/Eco Solar Breizh solar race car

  Bill Marshall

  The next World Solar Challenge car race takes place in October 2013. The race involves purpose-built vehicles being driven from the north to the south coast of Australia powered by energy which must come from the sun or be recovered from the kinetic energy of the vehicle itself. Here is the third post in a series charting the development of one entrant sponsored by Renesas Electronics.

• Panasonic Power Device Simulator Introduction

  Kelvin T

  Power Device Simulator is the Web Simulator provided by Panasonic.

• Great British Audio Part 1: Calrec

  Andrew Back

  The first in a series of posts which take a look at great British audio engineering companies.

• HANDY-CAP: Final Blog

  handy-cap

  The competition has reached his final stage and our group has finished the major part of our project which is the HW board.

• Oxford Raspberry Jam: April 2013

  Pete Wood

  Lots of cool projects shown at the April Raspberry Jam including a giant Video Wall, a Pi Controlled Car and a Kids Electronic Message Phone

• FORTHdsPIC gets its compiler & more ‘Bare-Metal’

  Bill Marshall

  In a previous post I introduced my latest project which started out as an exercise in familiarisation of PIC24/dsPIC assembly language programming but morphed into the development of a FORTH interpreter/compiler. Version 0.1 saw a working interpreter with a limited number of FORTH ‘words’. The compiler and a fairly standard word set are now operational with Version 0.2.

• HKUST ROV Team shone in Asia Regional IET/MATE Underwater Robot Challenge 2013

  GordonSin

  The ROV Team, a sub-team of HKUST Robotics Team, shone in the Asia Regional IET/MATE Underwater Robot Challenge 2013 held on 13-14 April 2013. 9 university and 24 high school teams from 8 countries around Asia competed in two categories, Ranger Class and Explorer Class, respectively. The HKUST ROV Team won the Champion Award in the Explorer Class, and they will represent Hong Kong to join the International MATE ROV Competition 2013 Explorer Class in USA in June 2013.

• A Parallella Update

  Andrew Back

  As the first Parallella beta boards arrive this post takes a look at recent project developments.

• Engineering education is going CubeSat shaped....

  Bill Marshall

  First it was the home computer, then the mobile phone: now it’s your own earth-orbiting satellite. Alright, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but about 5000GBP will buy you a kit of parts for the latest high-tech gadget, sorry, valuable research tool that no self-respecting technological university will want to be without...