Design World

pod cast archive from solar power world online.com

pod cast archive from solar power world online.com

Design World Senior Editor Evan Yares speaks with Chris Delvizis, Product Manager for National Instruments, about how to choose the right DAQ hardware for your measurement system. Delvizis explains about the different type of DAQ devices that are available, and talks about the important factors you need to understand, including signal conditioning, sampling rate, resolution, and accuracy.

Bertrand Sicot, SolidWorks’ new president and CEO, discusses long and term goals for the company, upcoming new technology, and trends in the 3D CAD arena.

Larry Boulden interviews Bob Kral of Bimba about the introduction of their OLE (Original Line Electric) actuators.

Randy Frank interviews All Sensors’ Tim Shotter about the applications of their new product line the MLV (millivolt low voltage) series of products.

With turbine towers reaching beyond met-mast heights, it’s time for another way to measure higher level winds. Sound detection and ranging or sodar equipment provides a solution, says Second Wind CEO Larry Letteney. In this podcast, Letteney discusses how the wind industry now collects wind information and how that might be improved.

The wind industry saw a huge number of installs in 2009, and 2010 is shaping up much better than expected. But when 2010 ends, the turbines of ‘09 and earlier will pass out of warranty and move to the service side of the ledger. Their maintenance work could overwhelm the OEMs. So who will take care of them? Shane Mullins, a researcher at Industrial Info Resources, will answer that question. He’ll also comment on how developments in China could assist the U.S. wind industry, what’s needed in infrastructure improvements, and touch on other key issues affecting the wind industry.

Bertrand Sicot, SolidWorks’ new president and CEO, discusses long and term goals for the company, upcoming new technology, and trends in the 3D CAD arena.

Kollmorgen’s new AKD family of servodrives is flexible and innovative. It features a broad power and current range, and is compatible with a wide assortment of feedback options. Best of all, the Performance Servo Tuner (PST) auto-tuning algorithm simplifies servo auto-tuning while bringing more to the table than typical inertia-based auto-tuners. Josh Inman, product manager with Kollmorgen, sits down with me to talk about the features and benefits of this new family of servodrives.

Materialise comments on how to grow the AM market by Design World

What’s lacking when working with 3D printers in education by Design World

The drawbacks of appealing to the “Maker” market by Design World

In an interview with Leslie Langnau, Managing Editor of Design World magazine and Editor of Make Parts Fast, Professor Hod Lipson of Cornell University, discusses why the development of AMF is necessary.

In an interview with Leslie Langnau, Managing Editor of Design World magazine and Editor of Make Parts Fast, Professor Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses some of the key features of the new additive manufacturing file format, which can be used instead of STL.

CUI releases Solus Power Topology, a part of the Novum Advanced Power product line, which is a 720 W quarter brick dc-dc converter with 36-60 Vdc input, 12 Vdc output (with plans to extend in the future), and an industry leading 445 W/in^3 power density. Jeff Smoot, VP of Engineering at CUI, and Joe Gorse, EE Editor for Design World, discuss the technology under the hood of the single-ended primary-inductor converter (SEPIC) plus buck converter which allows such performance gains over other power supplies.

Stratasys introduced a smaller FDM machine to its product line. I was very intrigued with its size and wanted to learn more about why Stratasys created this product. I interviewed product manager Mary Stanley and we discussed the direction of additive manufacturing and the niche the new Fortus 250mc line will play. Take a listen.

You have hundreds of different data acquisition (DAQ) devices to choose from, each with a variety of compatible buses. It can be difficult to select the right bus for your application needs. Each bus has different advantages and is optimized for throughput, latency, portability, or distance from a host. This podcast examines the most common PC bus options and outlines the technical considerations to keep in mind when choosing the right bus for your measurement application.

Al Secchi, Customer Service Manager at Sunstone Circuits, talks with Joe Gorse about Sunstone’s latest integrated PCB fabrication offering of stencils which bring designers one step closer to manufacturing processes during prototyping and removes some elements of human error in hand-soldering.

Design World Editorial Director Paul J. Heney discusses all things sensors with Jim Schwartz, CompactDAQ Product Marketing Engineer for National Instruments. Schwartz explains the types of sensors available, what they do, common measurements that they take and what kind of signals are created for each. In addition, he talks about some of the issues that engineers sometimes have in selecting the right sensor, as well as exploring some of the resources available.