Electrical engineering components are everywhere and is used in many platforms on a daily basis. Here are some things that EEs have designed and created with power, automation, microelectronics, communication, and computer engineering techniques.
The Hand of Man
The perfect way to crush cars by hand was created in 2007, by Christian Ristow, an artist and former animatronics designer for the movie industry. Ristow’s latest mechanical steel limb has 90-degree wrist rotation and improved mobility in the finger joints. It is powered by a 90-hp Perkins 1104C-44T four-cylinder diesel engine and is controlled through a glove worn by the operator.
Now here is a sink that I must have. These designers used the Conchoid formula {{x};{y};{z}}={{{k^{u}({1+cosv})cosu};{k^{u}({1+cosv})sinu};{k^{u}sin v-ak_{2}^{u}}}, u=0…6π, v=0…2π, k=1.2, k_{2}=1.2, a=1.5} to derive the architecture of this sink. I wonder how hard it is to clean this sink out.
You probably will not wake up in a Bugatti! As real as the car in this photo may seem, here is a photoshop design of a 1945 Bugatti Veyron. The Bugatti style is made from the same designers of the VW Beetle. Observe closely how the headlights of this car is quite similar to the Beetle.
VW ZAIRE Concept for National Geographic
“Now this is a weird one. Where to start? The ZAIRE concept is a truly mad creation which was formulated in the mind of designer Dong Man Joo. It carries a Volkswagen badge and it looks like a really angry snapping turtle. It’s huge, standing at over 8 ft 2 in. (2.5 meters) high, yet it has the ability to crawl both up and along a 30-degree slope without toppling over.”
Able to handle frequency of 5-42,000 Hz, the Stax SR-009, is quite dominating over the “Beats by Dre”. The earspeakers, as the company likes to call them, require a further investment of $2,000 for the amplifier to power it and costs $5,250.
Developed by AeroVironmen, the Nano hummingbird drone is built to look like a bird for potential use in spy missions. It is capable of flying at speeds of up to 11 miles per hour, hovering and flying sideways, backward and forward, as well as going clockwise and counterclockwise, by remote control for about eight minutes of sustained flight.
The Janken (rock-paper-scissors) robot has a 100% winning rate as one example of human-machine cooperation systems. Human being plays one of rock, paper and scissors at the timing of one, two, three. According to the timing, the robot hand plays one of three kinds so as to beat the human being.Recognition of human hand can be performed at 1ms with a high-speed vision, and the position and the shape of the human hand are recognized. The wrist joint angle of the robot hand is controlled based on the position of the human hand. The vision recognizes one of rock, paper and scissors based on the shape of the human hand. After that, the robot hand plays one of rock, paper and scissors so as to beat the human being in 1ms.
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