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I've developed a substitute to the old hooped tomato holders. It resists high winds. Stands 4 feet tall and has 4 inch squares for easy access to most varieties of tomatoes.
I use 6 foot, steel reinforcement rods for support and can even stack a second cage for taller plants reaching to 7 foot 6 inches.
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The modern immobilizer used in vehicles is a complex mechanism involving a lot of electronics, circuitry and ECU involvement. While this is successful, it adds to the cost of the vehicle. So it seems that “safety is a privilege that can only be afforded by the rich.” By means of this project we mean to break this myth.
The intrinsic speed and precision of the human ocular-motor system makes the eye an ideal pointing device for human-machine interface. Eye tracking has not yet been exploited as a robust human interface with computers due to many technical problems, such as viewing a human face under real-world conditions,
Generally, patient gets medicine in three ways: Injection, Swallowing or Inhaling. With injection and swallowing, the dosage of drug goes into the body are exact. While inhaling procedure and consequence are more complicated (Fig 1). Although the quantity of each dosage of a medical spray is supposed to be the same,
Trash-a-nator is a device used to reduce the garbage produced. Here in India, disposal of garbage has always been a problem. People dump garbage on public grounds and segregation is not yet implemented.
A computer system is usually comprised of one or more processors - for example, microcontrollers or microprocessors - and some software that will execute on such processor(s): this software may be created, for example, using a programming language such as ‘C’.
In many cases, processors are “embedded” inside larger systems, including cars, aircraft, industrial and agricultural machinery, medical equipment,
In recent years, it has been our interest to find an unconventional and renewable energy resources to replace the conventional ones. Wave energy is one of such unconventional resources from where we can have a huge a huge amount of energy.
This project “AUTOMATIC GLASS WALL CLEANER” focuses on cleaning of glass wall buildings. Cleaning glass of such tall buildings is a time consuming and a dangerous job. Presently humans are employed for cleaning such tall glass buildings which is very dangerous. In order to provide a solution to this problem, this process of cleaning can be automated.
Heavy Duty Vehicles have been dealing with high under hood temperatures even before the Environmental Protection Agency mandated their antipollution requirements for October, 2002 engines and the engine manufacturers chose Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) to deal with these requirements.
We have made an electric solar vehicle which is using 1kw motor, 48v 48ah battery and 500w solar panels.
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