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The copter itself is organised around the main CPU. The job of this CPU is to acquire the physical measurement given by the gyroscopes and accelerometers and to control the motors to keep the copter stable. This is done by a regulation loop which controls the motors speed 250 times per second. The radio communication has a pretty low bandwidth and is used to send commands to the copter and receive telemetry data from it. The CPU program can be updated by radio.

The computer runs control and telemetry programs. The control program reads the input from a game-pad and sends control commands to the copter. We also have programs that can configure the copter regulation parameters and log the measurements in order to make easier to tune the regulation. All the development is done on Windows and Linux. Indeed we are 3 to work on this project, two of us work on Linux and one is mainly on Windows. Using FLOSS permit to handle that in a very effective way. We are mainly using the GCC compiler from CodeSourcery for the copter program compilation, GNU Make for the project build, Mercurial for the source control, and python/pyusb for the communication with the copter. All these softwares works seamlessly on both Linux and Windows and made the project pretty easy to handle. The distance between the motors (horizontally and vertically) is around 8 cm and the total weight is around 20 g.

Volt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Volt (disambiguation). Josephson junction array chip developed by NIST as a standard volt The volt (symbol: V) is the SI derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference, and electromotive force.[1] The volt is named in honor of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), who invented the voltaic pile, possibly the first chemical battery.

A single volt is defined as the difference in electric potential across a wire when an electric current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power.[

by Philip J. Corso

Contents Forward Introduction Chapter 01 - The Roswell Desert Chapter 02 - Convoy to Fort Riley Chapter 03 - The Roswell Artifacts Chapter 04 - Inside the Pentagon at the Foreign Technology Desk Chapter 05 - The Cover-up Chapter 06 - The Strategy Chapter 07 - The EBE Chapter 08 - The Project Gets Under Way Chapter 09 - The Project Had Officially Begun Chapter 10 - The U2 Program and Project Corona - Spies in Space Chapter 11 - Project Moon Base Chapter 12 - The Integrated Circuit Chip - From the Roswell Crash Site to Silicon Valley Chapter 13 - The Laser Chapter 14 - The Antimissile Missile Project Chapter 15 - My Last Year in R&D - The Hoover Files, Fiber Optics, Supertenacity, and Other Artifacts Chapter 16 - 'Tesla’s Death Ray' and the Accelerated Particle Beam Weapon Chapter 17 - Star Wars Afterword

ndroid 4.0 Mini PC MK802 RAM 512MB ROM 4G mini TV BoxAndroid 4.0 Mini PC MK802 Features:-This is the smallest Android TV player in the world,it looks like a USB flash drive, twice as big as a USB stick,but compared to a regular small Android TV box,the size is only 25%. You can attach it to the back of your TV, easy to hide. -It outputs the video to TV via HDMI, a short HDMI cable is included, it requires your TV to have a HDMI input. -It is powered by a USB cable, this USB cable is included, but you need to purchase a compatible USB adapter (5V,2A),we can also give it to you if you tell me which country you are from, we will know what kind of USB adapter you need. -It has a regular USB port, you can connect your USB mouse or keyboard here, you can also connect a 2.4GHz wireless mouse and keyboard dongle here,please be noted that mouse and keyboard are not included. -It also has a micro USB port which can be used to connected to your PC. You can use it to copy files from your PC to this little guy. -It also has a micro TF card slot, you can insert a micro TF card with up to 32GB of movie or pictures here. -It doesnt have an ethernet port, you need to use WIFI to connect it to the internet. -It also no RGB port,no S-video port, no built-in IR,no built-in bluetooth. Are you still not clear ?-Connect this (mini CPU) to a monitor and a mouse (Fly mouse or USB mouse). -Switch ON both monitor and this player. -You’re ready to run Android 4.0 OS. -No other thing is needed. -Yes! really. It’s a complete CPU. You can play most of the latest 3D and 2D games available in market. -Performance of this device is comparable with smartphones.Specifications of Android 4.0 Mini PC -OS: Android 4.0

-Main Chip: Allwinner A10/ 1.5 GHz Cortex-A8 -Memory: 1GB -Storage: 4GB -Graphical processor: 2D/ 3D/ OpenGL ES2.0(AMD Z430)/OpenVG1.1(AMD Z160) 27M Tri/sec -Network: Wireless 802.11b/g, WAPI(Ralink8188) -Expand Memory: Micro TF 2-32GB -IO/Ports: Micro 5pin USB/ USB2.0 data transfer/ OTG and host expand -Keyboard: Support virtual keyboard, support 2.4G wireless keyboard, fly mouse -Audio: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, QCP, MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, M4A -Video: WMV/ASF/MP4/3GP/3G2M4V/AVI/MJPEG/RV10/DivX/VC-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.263/H.264/720P, 1080P, 720*480-Andriod APP: Youku,Tudou,QQ,Youtube,Twitter,AngryBird,Office,Gmail,Browse,Skype -HDMI: 1080P, 2160P  

Japan collab transmits record data speeds on terahertz waves

Researchers from Japan-based semiconductor manufacturer Rohm, together with a team from Osaka University, have come up with a chip that, in experiments, has achieved a wireless data transmission speed of 1.5 gigabits per second. This is a record breaker as the world's first terahertz wireless communication achieved with a small semiconductor device. The chip’s ability to transmit at such a quick speed is not the end of the story. Even higher transmission speeds of up to 30 Gbps may be possible in the future, according to reports.

“Research into terahertz technology utilising Terahertz frequency (100GHz-10THz) is now receiving increasing attention around the world,” according to an Osaka University publication

One of the main hardware difference between Android devices is he GPU which is part of the SoC (System On a Chip / Chipset) powering the handset. There’s currently three big players in the market today: Qualcomm’s SnapDragon SoC with the Adreno 200 GPU, TI OMAP 3XXX with the Power VR SGX 530/535 and finally Samsung’s Hummingbird (S5PC110A01) with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU all three of them feature a CortexA8 CPU core.

AMD Z430 GPU

have shown up to a %500 increase in performance in some bechnmarks when homemade/tweaked drivers where used instead of the ones supplied with the retail device.

Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing them into close proximity, usually no more than a few centimetres. Present and anticipated applications include contactless transactions, data exchange, and simplified setup of more complex communications such as Wi-Fi.[1] Communication is also possible between an NFC device and an unpowered NFC chip, called a "tag".[2]

NFC standards cover communications protocols and data exchange formats, and are based on existing radio-frequency identification (RFID) standards including ISO/IEC 14443 and FeliCa.[3] The standards include ISO/IEC 18092[4] and those defined by the NFC Forum, which was founded in 2004 by Nokia, Philips and Sony, and now has more than 160 members. The Forum also promotes NFC and certifies device compliance.[5

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XBee Tutorial: Setting up your XBees

XBees are wireless transceivers from Digi that implement the Zigbee protocol. They are simple devices that we can use to set up serial communications between our applications. Using the XBee tutorial you will have your devices talking in no time!

Accelerometers: ADXL345 Library and Netduino Tutorial

What is an accelerometer? An accelerometer is part of a family of motion sensors consisting of accelerometers, gyroscopes and compasses.