Nowadays, the computers are one of the most common household devices and it’s already become a familiar household appliance at every family.

Some of us were probably known computer pretty well, but how about the microcomputers? Have you ever wondered, what is the main purpose of the microcomputers? To be honest, a microcomputer is a computer with a microprocessor, as its central processing unit.

In this case, there is another general characteristic of the computers, where they occupy physically small amounts of space when compared to mainframe and microcomputers.

The term “Microcomputer” was came into popular, after the introduction of the minicomputer by Isaac Asimov in July 1965. In that moment, the microcomputer replaced the many separate components that made up the minicomputer’s CPU with a single integrated microprocessor chip!

Today’s project is about the Vessel Microcomputer Network. Frankly, there are many applications for small networks of microcomputers. The example includes home automation, trucks and factory floors.

The reason why Vessel Microcomputer Network or commonly known as “VuN”, which is a general purpose, low cost system for connecting multiple micros and transferring data among them!

VuN can be used to perform the following tasks:

• Collect and display information about fuel and water levels,

• Engine information,

• GPS position

• Track information

Furthermore, VuN can be operated with only battery power and it’s definitely a green gadget!

Weather is considering as one of the most unpredictable natural phenomenon on the Earth. Go figure, with all the sudden tornadoes, cyclones, floods, bushfire, and even dust storm violating all across the world, it’s becoming harder and harder to predict the constantly changes of weather!

However, there are many people out there have huge interested in the meteorology. If you’re one of the meteorology fans, then you have to hang out here, as we’re about to develop a Wireless Weather Station with Voice Synthesis.

Well, the main objective of the project is to create a cheap and maintenance free weather station, which is allowing the paraglider pilots to tell them the current wind condition at their flying site.

Unlike the ordinary weather station, this one had access to a PSTN line at the clubhouse by the landing field. The reason why the PSTN telephone line is being used, as it’s a whole lot cheaper than the mobile phone weather station.

The device has two TX units. The first one is placed on the mountaintop, while the second unit is placed inside the clubhouse. The TX units are responsible to log the wind speed and direction for the last 15 minutes. It turns the transmitter on and sends a FSK encoded 13-byte package to the receiver at a speed of 300bps on every 30 seconds.

In overall, this wireless weather station with voice synthesis is probably the best wireless weather station that we’ve ever seen. Hence, try it out and feels the differences yourself.

Those of you who involving in the design fields knows that it’s highly important to keep your creativity up all the time! Without the creativity, you’re more like to be kicked off from the job…

In the electronics world, you also need to come out with brilliant idea, and invent some incredible devices that can benefit other people!

In this case, the Solar Powered Hidden Observing Vehicles, or also known as “SOPHOCLES” is a very good example of the combination of creativity and usability!

For your information, SOPHOCLES is a sophisticated yet small robot system, which is mainly designed for watching purpose. It has a detector that can be used to look for poisonous gases or sticky air.

The motors bring the robot to hidden places, where the built-in camera shows pictures of these dangerous areas. As a result, the radio displays the information about the detected materials.

In addition, you might want to use the SOPHOCLES to control the robot, and how the solar cells spend power for missions, which is requiring low-power intermittent operation.

Basically, the robot has two main operation modes: The Autonomous mode and the command mode. The autonomous mode is powered by the implemented artificial intelligence of each robot, while an operator controls the robots, if you’re switching it into the command mode!

Tennis, one of the most popular sports that offer over millions of dollars to the winners, has been the favorite sport for over billion of fans in worldwide.

Based on the history, tennis was invented between 1859 and 1865, when Major Harry Gem and his friend Augurio Perera developed a game that combined two elements together: A racket and the Basque ball game, pelota. The world’s first tennis club had founded in Leamington Spa in 1872 and the very first tennis tournament has been held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall on July 23, 1884!

If you’re a loyal tennis lover, and you can’t live without it, maybe this small tennis computer device on wristband is the fantastic gadget that you must have!

When you’ve putted on the tennis computer on your wrist, you can start collect match statistic during a tennis play. Basically, it’s about the size of a wristwatch with five buttons for data input and an array of LED lamps to display the score. After play, you use a cable to connect the tennis computer to a PC and download the match statistics instantly.

By the way, the tennis computer is battery operated, which is can operate for over three months in normal circumstances. In addition, the device is highly-sealed and water proof too!

We’re living in the 21^st century, where everything is moving in very fast pace. Hence, most of the people in nowadays are being threatened with lifestyle diseases, such as depression, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and so on…

Talking about the high blood pressure, one out of three Americans is having the risk of getting high blood pressure, due to the imbalanced diet (High sodium, low potassium diet). Honestly, those people who got the high blood pressure didn’t seem to realize about it, until they’re getting stroke and paralyzed all the sudden!

Hence, for checking whether you’re free from high blood pressure or not, you can simply do it by creating an automatic blood pressure meter!

This automatic blood pressure meter is specially-designed, which is used for measuring the systolic (the highest blood pressure), diastolic (the lowest blood pressure) and pulse rate. According to the WHO, the healthy blood pressure for adult is 120/80 mmHg. If you’re having the blood pressure more than 130/85, then you’re probably in the high blood pressure range, which is known as “Prehypertension”.

The automatic blood pressure meter is a very incredible device. By simply a pressing and holding the I/O button, the user can view archive data. It cancels the archive reading, after you’ve pressed and hold the I/O button one more time! Beside that, this device can work under PC control transferring internal tables without any problem.