Piezoelectric Effect Piezoelectric Effect is the ability of certain materials to generate an electric charge in response to applied mechanical stress. The word Piezoelectric is derived from the Gre...

Electromagnetic Induction Electromagnetic induction: We know that a current flowing in a wire would produce a magnetic field. To increase the measurable effect of the field we can spin the wire in...

Motivation The importance of control system is apparent. The control systems are everywhere in our life: when we want the air conditioner keeps the room temperature at 70F, when we want the fridge ...

Terminology Most engineering fields make use of the concepts of classical mechanics very frequently, and it is often referred to as Newtonian mechanics. In this post, we are going to discuss topics...

To build a robot that can go to a desired destination, we need to teach it how to plan the path. Path planning is about the best way to get from A to B. It allows robots to navigate the environment...

Capacitor Capacitor is a circuit element that stores charges, sometimes called “charge buckets.” As shown in the image, each plate receives an equal but opposite amount of charge. The amount of...

Measuring Temperature Thermistor: a temperature-dependent resistor, changing resistance with changes in temperature. Since for some materials, resistance is a function of temperature, we have: [R ...

Motivation Since expanding my machine collection from one MacBook pro to 1) a work laptop running ubuntu 20.04, 2) a personal MacBook pro 3) a ThinkPad running ubuntu 20.04, I need help passing fi...

What brings me to the Linux world? Growing up not having a chance to get into programming, meanwhile being a keyboard-mouse gamer, made me always be a windows user (pain*) and never think of other ...

Rubik’s cube might seem like a hobby for some teenage nerds, but it is never too late to have fun with it. Picking up Rubik’s cube was also inspired by reading Andrej Karpathy’s website, just like...