can be described as the following: The inhabitant of the house is watching TV and decides to go to the kitchen to fetch some food. On his way there, the house detects his movement and notices that the TV is on. The house compares the stored situations and finds out, that the inhabitant always switches on the speakers in the kitchen while he is present there. Also he always switches off the speakers in a living room to preserve some energy. Thus the house when he enters the kitchen decides to switch on the speakers there. At the same time, it switches off the speakers in the living room, since nobody is present. This process might be useful in a future for the saving of energy and money.
The article talks about an undegoing project, it´s a intelligent house feature that allows you hear your TV all over your house (redirect the sound of a device to the speakers in another room). This process
can be described as the following: The inhabitant of the house is watching TV and decides to go to the kitchen to fetch some food. On his way there, the house detects his movement and notices that the TV is on. The house compares the stored situations and finds out, that the inhabitant always switches on the speakers in the kitchen while he is present there. Also he always switches off the speakers in a living room to preserve some energy. Thus the house when he enters the kitchen decides to switch on the speakers there. At the same time, it switches off the speakers in the living room, since nobody is present. This process might be useful in a future for the saving of energy and money.
can be described as the following: The inhabitant of the house is watching TV and decides to go to the kitchen to fetch some food. On his way there, the house detects his movement and notices that the TV is on. The house compares the stored situations and finds out, that the inhabitant always switches on the speakers in the kitchen while he is present there. Also he always switches off the speakers in a living room to preserve some energy. Thus the house when he enters the kitchen decides to switch on the speakers there. At the same time, it switches off the speakers in the living room, since nobody is present. This process might be useful in a future for the saving of energy and money.
The magazine article talks about how earthquake engineers have come up with an ingenious new way to make earth quake-proof bridges. Their 'rocking' bridge design avoids damage by jumping right off the ground. The system can even be fitted to old bridges so they'll be safer in future.
The design works as following explained:
All bridges have towers that support the bridge deck. Usually these towers are securely fixed to deep foundations, especially in an earthquake zone. But engineers' new bridge design has an innovative and counter “intuitive feature “, its towers aren't anchored down.
Instead, the towers can lift a few inches off land, causing the bridge to rock to and fro.
This stops vibrations from an earthquake building up, which would otherwise rip the towers right out of the ground.
The amount of rocking is carefully controlled by grounding structures that guide the towers safely back into position. Shock-absorbent 'dampers' can also be attached to each tower base to help restrict how high the bridge lifts and how fast it travels back into the ground.
The text ends with an opinion of a co-worker of the project, Michael Bruneau: “Engineers are starting to warm up to the possibility of using rocking in their designs. We hope that this concept will be increasingly used to help design new bridges in the future, but it's early days yet. This is truly a trend of the future”.
When I was reading this article I couldn´t believe that this modern house was made of a mixture of wood, steel and concrete, but it really does!!!
This house represents how a house could be modernist and minimalist by fusing the modernism and the classic country-life style. In its interiors, the house is basically minimalist, it has no stylish details, in the other side, it has simple (minimalis) architecture details.
Electric Charge Electric charge is a fundamental conserved property of some subatomic particles, which determines their electromagnetic interaction. Electrically charged matter is influenced by, and produces, electromagnetic fields. The interaction between a moving charge and an electromagnetic field is the source of the electromagnetic force, which is one of the four fundamental forces.
Electric Circuit An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors, and diodes, connected by conductive
wires or traces through which electrical current can flow. The combination of components and wires allows various simple and complex operations to be performed: signals can be amplified, computations can be performed, and data can be moved from one place to another. Circuits can be constructed of discrete components connected by individual pieces of wire, but today it is much more common to create interconnections by photolithographic techniques on a laminated substrate -- a printed circuit board or PCB -- and solder the components to these interconnections to create a finished circuit. In an Integrated Circuit or IC, the components and interconnections are formed on the same substrate, typically a semiconductor such as silicon or (less commonly) gallium arsenide.
Voltage Voltage is commonly used as a short name for electrical potential difference. The voltage between two points is the electrical driving force that would drive an electric current between those points. Specifically, voltage is equal to energy per unit charge.
Power Electric power is defined as the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt. When electric current flows in a circuit, it can transfer energy to do mechanical or thermodyna
mic work.
Types of voltage sources •Mains electricity (secondary voltage) This is probably the most familiar form of AC voltage source known. Generally its output impedance is very low (for example, IEC 725:1981 uses 0.4 ohms as a typical value).
•Cell (primary voltage) The simplest form of practical DC voltage source is the common cell, which is available in numerous voltages and current ratings. More than one cell can be combined in series, parallel or a combination of both the topologies to achieve greater voltage/current ratings. Such combinations are known as batteries.
•Sources using active electronic devices (secondary voltages)
•LED Voltage source
•VBE multiplier voltage source
•Other types of practical (real world) voltage sources
There are other naturally occurring voltage sources in the world. One example is the voltage produced by the contact of two dissimilar metals.
•Potential divider (secondary volt.) This is the simplest way of producing a source of lower EMF from a source of higher EMF, and is the basic operating mechanism of the 'potentiometer' (a measuring device for accurately measuring potential differences). However to gain a low output impedance the parallel combination of the two resistors must be low. This means that to achieve a stable output voltage over a variety of loads the power wasted in the potential divider must be significantly greater than the power delivered to the load.
•Capacitor (primary volt.) A capacitor (especially a large one) can be considered a voltage source, provided a constant charge stored in the capacitor. If the capacitor is very large, current flowing out of the capacitor will not change the charge much, hence the voltage across the capacitor will remain approximately constant, similarly to a battery.
Protoboard A breadboard (protoboard) is a construction base for a one-of-a-kind electronic circuit, a prototype. In modern times the term is commonly used to refer to a particular type of breadboard, the solderless breadboard (plugboard).
Ohm´s Law In electrical circuits, Ohm's law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference or voltage across the two points, and inversely proportional to the resistance between them, provided that the temperature remains constant.
Electric Circuit An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors, and diodes, connected by conductive
wires or traces through which electrical current can flow. The combination of components and wires allows various simple and complex operations to be performed: signals can be amplified, computations can be performed, and data can be moved from one place to another. Circuits can be constructed of discrete components connected by individual pieces of wire, but today it is much more common to create interconnections by photolithographic techniques on a laminated substrate -- a printed circuit board or PCB -- and solder the components to these interconnections to create a finished circuit. In an Integrated Circuit or IC, the components and interconnections are formed on the same substrate, typically a semiconductor such as silicon or (less commonly) gallium arsenide.Voltage Voltage is commonly used as a short name for electrical potential difference. The voltage between two points is the electrical driving force that would drive an electric current between those points. Specifically, voltage is equal to energy per unit charge.
Power Electric power is defined as the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt. When electric current flows in a circuit, it can transfer energy to do mechanical or thermodyna
mic work.Types of voltage sources •Mains electricity (secondary voltage) This is probably the most familiar form of AC voltage source known. Generally its output impedance is very low (for example, IEC 725:1981 uses 0.4 ohms as a typical value).
•Cell (primary voltage) The simplest form of practical DC voltage source is the common cell, which is available in numerous voltages and current ratings. More than one cell can be combined in series, parallel or a combination of both the topologies to achieve greater voltage/current ratings. Such combinations are known as batteries.
•Sources using active electronic devices (secondary voltages)
•LED Voltage source
•VBE multiplier voltage source
•Other types of practical (real world) voltage sources
There are other naturally occurring voltage sources in the world. One example is the voltage produced by the contact of two dissimilar metals.
•Potential divider (secondary volt.) This is the simplest way of producing a source of lower EMF from a source of higher EMF, and is the basic operating mechanism of the 'potentiometer' (a measuring device for accurately measuring potential differences). However to gain a low output impedance the parallel combination of the two resistors must be low. This means that to achieve a stable output voltage over a variety of loads the power wasted in the potential divider must be significantly greater than the power delivered to the load.
•Capacitor (primary volt.) A capacitor (especially a large one) can be considered a voltage source, provided a constant charge stored in the capacitor. If the capacitor is very large, current flowing out of the capacitor will not change the charge much, hence the voltage across the capacitor will remain approximately constant, similarly to a battery.
Protoboard A breadboard (protoboard) is a construction base for a one-of-a-kind electronic circuit, a prototype. In modern times the term is commonly used to refer to a particular type of breadboard, the solderless breadboard (plugboard).
Ohm´s Law In electrical circuits, Ohm's law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference or voltage across the two points, and inversely proportional to the resistance between them, provided that the temperature remains constant.
Nowadays, I haven´t decided yet which career between Architecture and Genetic Engineering study. But, if I would choose to be an architect it is obviously related with architecture. Since I was a kid, I liked big buildings and designing. I have the talent to design new and outstanding things.
When I was in Middle School, I decided to be part of the “Dibujo Técnico” and develop my talent. There, I designed a lot of new things like parts of machinery, I designed cars, I learned basic notions of the architecture designing, I designed houses and buildings and interiors, and even I made a model-scaling of my house and I improved it.
Architecture is an interesting career and there´s always a different work or task for the architect to perform. An architect must be creative and calculating, if not, the architect will eventually lose his job.
When I was in Middle School, I decided to be part of the “Dibujo Técnico” and develop my talent. There, I designed a lot of new things like parts of machinery, I designed cars, I learned basic notions of the architecture designing, I designed houses and buildings and interiors, and even I made a model-scaling of my house and I improved it.
Architecture is an interesting career and there´s always a different work or task for the architect to perform. An architect must be creative and calculating, if not, the architect will eventually lose his job.
I´m going to design a house based on pre-production design steps:
- Design brief or Parti – The goals of designing a house are: To provide commodity and likeness for the future costumer of the house
, another goal is to make an impact on the costumer of the house by designing a modern and outstanding house. - Analysis – The goals will be come true by doing research about architecture and civil engineering.
- Research – The research will be based on architecture and civil engineering.
- Specification – Some solutions or specifications for the designing of the house are to improve normal infrastructure, like water supply, commodity, electricity saving, etc.
- Problem solving – All the design solutions will be conceptualized and documented.
- Presentation – Some design solutions that a house may have to be solutionated are: Electricity saving by solar panels, water saving and supply by implementing new technology of saving-supply, commodity and elegance by implementing modern and new outsatnding ideas that satisfy the needs of the costumer.
1. I can design an outstanding new model of a keytar
2. I can design a house
3. I can a car
4. I can design a new music player
5. I can design a modern model of a bed
2. I can design a house
3. I can a car
4. I can design a new music player
5. I can design a modern model of a bed
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