03
2016
Bye, Bye, Blogger. . . .
“Change is good !” they say. Over the past few months, we’ve worked hard to share a few wonderful articles with you through this page. This is where some of our wonderful sections such as Geek Speak, Tech Mania and Kit Creatives have been shared. Some
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2016
Kit Creatives: Exploring lights and sensors
It is always fun when there are projects to do. It keeps the creativity running as far as we are concerned. No boredom, lots of learning and some fun in the process. Over the course of a few weeks we’ve explored a lot of projects through kit creativ
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2016
New Horizons completes marathon Pluto data transfer
NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has received the final piece of data collected by the agency's New Horizons probe during its encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto, which took place on July 14, 2015. Data from the New Horizons mission has revolutionized ou
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2016
Robotics learning in the age of Open Innovation
If one has been part of a Multinational Conglomerate with several business verticals, the recent latest fad one can relate to is the term “Open Innovation”. Open innovation as a concept is fairly new and it’s adoption is yet to take off on a massive scale
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2016
NTU Singapore's robot to spray paint JTC's industrial developments
A new NTU robot will soon be spray-painting the interiors of industrial buildings in Singapore, saving time and manpower while improving safety. Known as PictoBot, the robot is invented by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) a
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2016
Education in 2020: How will it look like?
When we usually think about the year 2020, we assume of a time somewhere in the future where flying cars would be the norm and contact with alien civilizations would’ve been established. Followers of our former president Shri Abdul Kalam would probably th
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2016
NTU Singapore automates spray painting with PictoBot.
A new NTU robot will soon be spray-painting the interiors of industrial buildings in Singapore, saving time and manpower while improving safety. Known as PictoBot, the robot is invented by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) a
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2016
Thumb-steered drone leaves you with a free hand
The shapes and sizes of drones have changed a lot in recent times, but most serious quadcopters are still controlled by way of a dual-joystick controller (autonomous flyers notwithstanding). A new crowdfunding campaign is coming at it from a different ang
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2016
Wiring the brain with artificial senses and limb control
There have been significant advances in developing new prostheses with a simple sense of touch, but researchers are looking to go further. Scientists and engineers are working on a way to provide prosthetic users and those suffering from spinal cord injur
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2016
Drone receives wireless power, on the fly
Given that the battery life of most multicopter drones typically doesn't exceed 30 minutes of flight time per charge, there are many tasks that they simply can't perform. Feeding them power through a hard-wired tether is one option, although that only wor
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