By Ken Gifford Have you ever taken someone to Baskin-Robbins who really likes ice cream? Invariably, whenever I take my wife there, she has a pretty good idea in her mind what she has a taste for. However, when presented with the bewildering array of choices available, she has a hard time making up her […]
By: Josh Beyer For Christmas my wife gave me supplies for making home-brewed beer. This was the perfect gift, because I enjoy craft beers and was looking for a new hobby. This included a 5-gallon Stainless Steel brew kettle and all the supplies to make my first batch of brewskies! Shortly after brewing my first […]
By: Roger Mahler My first experience with robots was in High School; in the mid 1980s our Industrial arts teacher had purchased a 2 axis pneumatic robot kit. It was made of machined aluminum plate and was controlled by air solenoids fired by an Apple IIe computer. The available actions were axis 0 (base)rotated horizontally […]
By Ken Gifford Whenever I am presenting on this topic, I have a little video I like to show. In the video, we see a man driving a cement truck. He seems happy and content with his work while he sits at the stop light. He glances down at a photograph of his wife taped […]
What is an Inductive Pressure Transducer? As more and more of today’s industrial processes become automated, the demand for sensors that are capable of meeting the challenge has greatly increased. One important sensor in many modern electrical controls is the inductive pressure transducer. While the name may sound a bit intimidating, in reality, it’s a […]
