Our paper “Absolute length sensor based on time of flight in stretchable optical fibers,” by Ji-Tzuoh Lin and C. K. Harnett, is accepted at IEEE Sensors Letters . What’s new over our previous work? We measured the travel time of a laser pulse, rather than its amplitude in a stretchable optical fiber. This method is …
Category Archives: Lab News
Best of McMaster Carr
If you’re building robots in the US you probably order from this catalog. It is time to place an order and I have only one small item in the cart. Can anyone in the lab think of anything they need? (Not sponsored content. Is that even possible?) 5733T83. Traffic light. We need to control traffic …
Research Opportunity
Sensors for Wearables and Robotics PhD Research Assistantship Updated Summer 2020 Immediate & future opportunity for a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville in the area of sensors for wearable devices and robotics. Go to our Join the Lab page for more details! Fill out our interest form, get on our radar.
Quick Bricks
Remote work got standardized when Chris N. suggested we work with “bricks.” Plastic bricks emerged from boxes and tubs in different cities. He designed some 3D printed parts with pockets for bricks, so he could click them into place on this torque-vs-angle testing platform when the parts arrived from campus. No need to ship the …
Wandering diodes
These micro-MELF diodes are a little over a millimeter tall. Normally they’re arranged in an orderly fashion in a tape, so a robotic pick-and-place system can grab them individually and place them on a printed circuit board. Not today! They spilled out. Is there a way to self assemble them onto a surface? People have …