The Intriguing World of Sensors

The Intriguing World of Sensors

Source / Knowledge Automation (ID: zhishipai) Author / Lin Xueping Cover / Tuchong Creative Whether it’s the high-speed trains or the transformers weighing four to five hundred tons, the heavy equipment of major powers is often admired. First of all, it gives a stunning impression due to its size. Moreover, the unit price is often … Read more

Human Spaceflight: The Engineer’s Perspective

Human Spaceflight: The Engineer's Perspective

The universe has evolved to create a species capable of partially understanding it: humans. From the chaotic beginnings to the space age, as the only known intelligent life, humans have used various tools to understand and transform the world, achieving the continuation of species and the evolution of civilization. However, in today’s rapidly developing artificial … Read more

How MATLAB Helped Me Regain My Confidence

How MATLAB Helped Me Regain My Confidence

The winter in Germany is particularly hard to endure. Unlike in my home country, where nights and days are similar, in Germany, winter days and nights feel the same—cold, dark, and windy. It’s impossible to take the little one out to play. Being stuck at home with a child is incredibly frustrating; friends without kids … Read more

Tips for Designing Microfluidic Chips in Diagnostic Instruments

Tips for Designing Microfluidic Chips in Diagnostic Instruments

Design Tips 1 Microfluidic chip Since the development of the first commercial POCT instruments in the 1990s, microfluidic technology has gained increasing favor among manufacturers due to its outstanding advantages, especially in the field of diagnostics. Microfluidics is a branch of fluid mechanics that studies the physical processes of fluid flow using fundamental control equations, … Read more

How to Add Termination Resistors in RS-485 Networks

How to Add Termination Resistors in RS-485 Networks

The RS-485 bus has advantages such as a simple structure and low cost. However, when engineers set up RS-485 bus networks, they often encounter the question: should termination resistors be added to improve the reliability of the entire network’s communication? This article will answer that question. 1. The Role of Termination Resistors For the RS-485 … Read more

Kawasaki ZEPHYR400 Series Chronology: ZEPHYR χ

Kawasaki ZEPHYR400 Series Chronology: ZEPHYR χ

Today we will talk about the final version of the Kawasaki ZEPHYR400, known by the Japanese as the The pride of JAPAN: ZEPHYR χ Model:ZEPHYR χ (ZR400G) Year: 1996 As the successor to the popular ZEPHYR400, this model launched in 1996 was named ZEPHYR χ. It is important to note that the χ here is … Read more

Starting Programming at 35: Microcontroller Coding for Future Security

Starting Programming at 35: Microcontroller Coding for Future Security

The editor inadvertently came across a self-analysis by an engineer approaching middle age, and couldn’t help but feel that every industry has its own bitter journey. Below is a shared reflection for enthusiasts. Currently, I work at a venture capital company using JAVA for mobile app backend development, with a pre-tax salary of 12K. This … Read more

Understanding Pulley Mechanisms: DIY Cable Robot Guide

Understanding Pulley Mechanisms: DIY Cable Robot Guide

Set as Star “★” to avoid getting lost, let’s hit the highway together! Reading this article takes about 3.5 minutes Note: Attachments can be found in the comments (please contact for repairs if expired); if you need other materials, feel free to leave a message in the comments, and I will send them out if … Read more

What Exactly Is a Hardware Engineer?

What Exactly Is a Hardware Engineer?

1. What Is Hardware? In other words, hardware is physical, at least something you can see and touch. It is a material carrier, the material basis. Broadly speaking, humans live on a material basis, and you can refer to everything you can see as hardware. Of course, in a narrow sense, software and hardware generally … Read more

Combining Microrobots and Traditional Robots for Precise Delivery

Combining Microrobots and Traditional Robots for Precise Delivery

First Author: Wang Ben (Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University), Dr. Chen Qifeng Corresponding Author: Professor Zhang Li Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong The sci-fi movie “Fantastic Voyage” tells the story of five American doctors who are shrunk to a micron scale and injected into a patient’s body to perform vascular surgery, escaping through the … Read more