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In the vast expanse of the night sky, moon, stars, planets, and galaxies await discovery, offering an infinite canvas for both seasoned astronomers and curious enthusiasts. Astrophotography, the art and science of photographing…
Read more : Shooting beyond Earth's atmosphere
In an age where smartphones offer increasingly advanced camera capabilities, the choice between using a smartphone or investing in a dedicated digital camera like a reflex or mirrorless system may seem uncertain. While smartphones…
Read more : Why you should buy a Reflex
In the ever-evolving landscape of smart home technology, one aspect that has garnered significant attention and transformative advancements is the realm of heating control systems. As we strive for efficiency, sustainability, and…
Read more : Heating control system
Every smart home heating system needs to accurately monitor temperature at different points and with different requirements. Unlike off-the-shelf sensors, a custom-built temperature sensor is tailored to meet unique requirements,…
Read more : A final design for the temperature sensors
After several years of testing different devices and software for the smart home, I found the definitive solution: Home Assistant. It is an open-source home automation platform that allows you to control and monitor various devices…
Read more : Smart home update: Home Assistant
The latest developments in Computer Aided Engineering, by means of the remarkable progress that several softwares have been made in terms of computational speed and of enlarged ranges of phaenomena that can be simulated and…
Read more : Development and Analysis of an Array of Folded Patch Antennas Using Matlab
Among the exams scheduled in the Medical Engineering course at the University of Rome Tor Vergata there is the course of Wireless Electromagnetics Technologies. The course provides the foundation for current and next generation…
Read more : Design with Sensor Array Analyzer
Among the infinite simulation solutions in the Simulink environment there is clearly the possibility to analyze different flight systems. In particular, in this article, I discuss my experience on an avionics box made up of two…
Read more : Simulink, Raspberry Pi and flight models
Questo articolo riassume alcuni dei dispositivi per la domotica presenti nel mercato ad inizio secondo semestre del 2021. Tutti i dispositivi citati sono stati personalmente testati, o in ambito domestico o in ambito industriale,…
Read more : Domotica, IoT e risparmio energetico
I sensori di pressione sono largamente utilizzati e in alcune applicazioni permettono di misurare l'altitudine. Per misurare la pressione ci riduciamo sempre alla misura di una forza, è proprio la forza rispetto una superficie.…
Read more : Sensori di pressione e altimetro
Il giroscopio, o sensore giroscopico, permette di leggere la velocità angolare e quindi calcolare la rotazione introno agli assi. È chiaramente una misura molto utile dal controllo inerziale dei veicoli, all'elettronica di consumo…
Read more : Come funziona il giroscopio integrato
GitHub repository Download report (it) --- The aim of the project is to show how it is possible to control a clamp and its rotation through a signal from some sensors such as an inertial sensor and an electromyography sensor. The…
Read more : Robotic clamp controlled by gyro and electromyography
GitHub repository --- The project involves the creation of one or more monitoring stations of the domestic environment which can possibly, with due care, be extended to public and / or corporate environments. --- On this page ---…
Read more : Environmental comfort monitoring unit
L’accelerometro viene utilizzato in tantissime applicazioni poiché l’accelerazione è una delle principali proprietà cinematiche di un corpo, dai veicoli, all’elettronica di consumo, nei controllori dei giochi, applicazioni…
Read more : Accelerometro, dalle grandezze meccaniche alle grandezze elettriche
Collaboration with a student of the Aerospace Engineering excellence course of the University of Rome La Sapienza for the design of a flight computer for model rockets. Rocket modeling is a specialty of modeling that deals with the…
Read more : Arduino flight computer for models rocket
I just finished a course on IoT and applications with Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The course is a bit distracting but certainly very interesting. The topics covered are very interesting and can certainly have a practical feedback…
Read more : IoT Experiments Using Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi
Approfondisci il funzionamento e la storia del misuratore di glicemia, uno dei biosensori più diffusi al mondo, con l'articolo che ho scritto per il portale di Close - Up Engineering. Come funziona, come utilizzarlo e quali…
Read more : Come funziona il glucometro ?