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Creating the World's First Animated Trivia Application - Everyone needs Animated Trivia. Our brains are simply visual by nature processing 60,000 times faster than text. It is easier to recall amazing facts when they are matched with fun animation.
This project is about the concept of a new engine called variable volume engine. In the variable volume four stroke engines, during the suction stroke there will be one volume and during other three strokes, there will be another volume. Thus the volume of variable volume engine is not constant.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles possess growing interest in media and literature because of their wider application for Photography, agriculture, military purpose, emergency purpose, surveillance applications etc. In this research the current state of the UAV is reviewed.
UAV introduced here is capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and it utilizes the techniques of both fixed wing and multirotor aircraft,
In the United States, about 48 million people are deaf or hard of hearing. These numbers are expected to double in US adults alone by 2060. The current way to serve this community includes expensive hearing aids, cochlear implants, or microphones that are clipped on, worn on the speaker’s head, or passed around. These devices manipulate sound,
In the fast paced era of technology and science, one has lots of information to grab. The people have smartphones to store the information. While few still use the notebook to store the data. The innovation is the “Diary,”
A bicycle model which can drive itself autonomously and also be driven manually as and when required is presented to be used in an urban bicycle-sharing system. The proposed system would be ideal for use in last-mile transportation. Any autonomous vehicle along with all its advantages of reducing human effort and providing better repeatability etc.
Shoveling snow is tedious, backbreaking work. Little wonder that every year thousands of shovelers end up in ERs.
But no more. Now, with the Flipper you can clear snow in half the time and with one-tenth the effort.
Its innovative spring bar multiplies your effort so you can move snow with less ease, changing the face of snow shoveling forever.
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In this project we have focused on improving the steering response in automobiles using a rack and pinion assembly. The main purpose is to design and manufacture a new arrangement of rack and pinion which enhances the maneuverability. Rack and pinion mechanism being compact and light package with kinematically stiffer characteristics is commonly employed on cars.
Animatronics refers to the use of robotic devices to emulate a human or an animal, or bring lifelike characteristics to an otherwise inanimate object.
Unique part of this project is,HC 05 BLUETOOTH MODULE IS EMPLOYED FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF SIGNAL UNLIKE OTHER ANIMATRONIC PROJECTS WHICH USES XBEE MODULE. HC05 is cheaper as compared to that of Xbeee module.
At present, use of electronics weighing scale (machine) is increasing rapidly. It is even used at shop of foot path, where electric is not present. Everywhere it is installed, charging of battery of the weighing scale is necessary. Although, electric expense for its battery charging is low,
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