There are a lot of low-cost pressure sensors out there but many are made for surface mount, like the one at the left, which is fairly huge for a surface mount part. You are expected to solder the gold leads of this pressure sensor to a printed circuit board (PCB) or adapter. What about when you …
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Student Doings Lately
Some students have finished things, and others have started new projects. Jordan Meyer finished her independent study, generating a beautiful image of surface charge density on metal structures using CoventorWare (pictured above), which will plug into Jaz Beharic’s research on flow through metallized membranes. Also last semester, Sherman Dowell and Martin Dombi completed independent studies that …
Electronic Mushroom Forest
In our never-ending obsession with spraying metal on 3D structures to create interesting circuits without lithography, we found DualLock, an engineered “hook and loop” fastener. DualLock is a forest of tiny molded plastic mushrooms. When you shove two pieces of DualLock together, the mushroom caps interlock. It takes some force to separate them, and the strength depends on …
Science bot
We have a lot of interesting results but now it’s crunch time in the semester for proposals, travel, and exams. The lab is going on autopilot for the rest of the week. Meet the science bot who will be generating new project titles while I finish off this paperwork. START INNOVATING NOW Here are my favorite ideas …
A lone link
Looking at the induced-charge electroosmosis literature (blob at left) and the nanopore literature (blob at right) through some key papers, it seems that there aren’t very many connections between those areas yet. The green square represents one of the first papers on ICEO by Squires and Bazant in 2004, and the blue square is Siwy’s …