Member Profile: John Peterson
John Peterson

Location: Menlo Park, CA Education: BS and MS, University of Utah Occupation: Software Developer Member Status: John has been a subscriber since 2002. Technical Interests: His interests include user interfaces for embedded systems, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development, and embedded … Continue reading

Client Profile: ARM, Ltd.
ARM, Ltd.

ARM, Ltd. 110 Fulbourn Road Cambridge, GB-CB1 9NJ, Great Britain www.arm.com www.arm.com/tools Contact: sales.us@keil.com Embedded Products/Services: The ARM tools range offers two software development families that provide you with all the necessary tools for every stage of your software development … Continue reading

Member Profile: Dr. Alexander Pozhitkov
Dr. Alexander Pozhitkov

Location: Seattle, WA Education: MS in Chemistry, Moscow State University, PhD in Genetics and Bioinformatics, University of Cologne, Germany Occupation: Research scientist Member Status: He has been a subscriber for a year. Technical Interests: Alex is interested in low-level hardware … Continue reading

Electrostatic Cleaning Robot Project
This image depicts two Electrostatic Cleaning Robots set up on two heliostats. (Source: S. Potter)

How do you clean a clean-energy generating system? With a microcontroller (and a few other parts, of course). An excellent example is US designer Scott Potter’s award-winning, Renesas RL78 microcontroller-based Electrostatic Cleaning Robot system that cleans heliostats (i.e., solar-tracking mirrors) … Continue reading

Member Profile: Thomas Struzik
Member Thomas Struzik at his bench.

  Member Name: Thomas Struzik Location: Houston, TX Education: BSEE, Purdue University Occupation: Software architect Member Status: He has been a subscriber since day one. “I’ve got Issue 1 sitting in a box somewhere,” he said. Thomas adds that he … Continue reading