January 2015

Beer Pong Robot

  When you have a look at this Beer Pong Robot video by Empire Robotics you can see that some cool engineering went into making this robot very accurate (or a ton of takes were taken). The green thing on the end of the arm is what Empire makes, it is an ingenious mechanism for gripping items. Via: Geeks are Sexy and Gizmodo “The core principle behind VERSABALL is the jamming phase

Name the Thing Contest – 264

  The prize this week is a wireless transmitter for your next project. This contest will run for one week (Jan 3- 9, 2015). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Don’t need a make or model, just what what the thing is used for. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an

ABB Robotic Barista

  We have seen how impressive the ABB Robotic systems are, have a look at the latest example. Here we have a ABB Robotic Barista from Automatica 2014 Munich. The robot opens the coffee brewer, selects and inserts the coffee grounds container, positions the coffee cup, places a plate and puts the coffee cup on the plate. Finally a conveyor brings the coffee out of the protective robot enclosure to

Repair of an Agilent Synthesized Signal Generator

  Shahriar from the SignalPath purchased a defective Agilent E4433B ESG-D Signal Generator as a teardown and repair project. Sounds expensive but this piece of equipment is an expensive piece of gear. Shahriar goes through the troubleshooting of the system in great detail and repairs the fault! “The Output RF board is equipped with various amplifiers, electronic attenuators, I/Q mixers, heterodyne paths and final PA. By using soldered SMA cables