An obstacle detection unit is an essential part of a variety of projects, such as robotics and security applications An obstacle detection unit is an essential part of a variety of projects, such as ...

Design demands include a decrease in device size, cost and power consumption, while improving accuracy, sensitivity and reliability, observes Bill Walsh of Digi-Key Electronics. Of the four common ...

Although a thermal, or infrared, vision system can easily inspect printed-circuit boards (PCBs) and their components, many people in the electronics business don’t fully understand what thermal ...

Some readers may recall building a line-following robot during their school days. Involving some IR LEDs, perhaps a bit of LEGO, and plenty of trial-and-error, it was fun on a tiny scale. Now imagine ...