Seven-Controller EtherCAT Orchestra
Photo 3—These are the targets at which the nozzles from Photo 2 are aimed. If you look closely, you can see a ball just after it bounced off the illuminated target at the top right. (Source: R. Wotiz)

When I first saw the Intel Industrial Control in Concert demonstration at Design West 2012 in San Jose, CA, I immediately thought of Kurt Vonnegut ‘s 1952 novel Player Piano. The connection, of course, is that the player piano in … Continue reading

In Memoriam: Richard Alan Wotiz
Richard Alan Wotiz

Richard Alan Wotiz—a multitalented electronics engineer, inventor, and author—provided the international embedded design community with creative projects and useful electronics engineering lessons since the early 1980s when he graduated from Princeton University. Sadly, Richard passed away unexpectedly on May 30, … Continue reading