From the 9/26/07 issue of Monitor, the email newsletter of Windmill Software.
Monitoring instruments and sensors wirelessly is becoming more and more common. A wireless network saves cabling costs and installation time. It is useful in electrically noisy or hostile environments. It lets you move your measuring device from place to place and remotely monitor conditions. […]

The Astro-Med Dash 32HF Recorder is, according to the company, the first system to record 32 channels of data directly to hard drive at sample rates of 500 kHz per channel in an ultra-compact system. Designed for applications ranging from transient capture to remote troubleshooting, the Dash 32HF is portable and rugged enough to handle […]

DRS Technologies has been awarded a $13.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to continue manufacturing Direct Support Electrical System Test Sets (DSESTS) and Test Program Sets (TPS) for the U.S. Army’s M2A2 and M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems.
The contract was awarded to DRS by the Army’s Tank Automotive and Armaments Command Life Cycle Management […]

From NIST TECHBEAT, September 27, 2007:
How do you conveniently measure something that not only is 14 times lighter than air but also invisible? That’s just one of the tasks National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Weights and Measures Division staff have taken on to prepare the nation for the hydrogen economy.
Under an interagency […]

I never thought I’d be citing Auto Body Repair News on this blog, but they recently ran an article titled, “New roof-strength regulations delayed amid controversy over testing, proposed standards.” This article has a lot of interesting things to say about the proposed new standards for rollover safety and the tests used by the […]

The Photron USA Fastcam MC1 high speed camera is designed specifically for production line fault-finding and process control. The small (35mm cubed, less than 1.5-inch) remote head camera delivers 2000 frames per second (fps) at full resolution and up to 10,000 fps at reduced resolution. The compact and robust camera housing enables easy […]

The Roanoke Daily Herald reports on a presentation by Simon Cobb, director of North Carolina Operations for Lotus Engineering, to a North Carolina business association that outlined the status and goals of the North Carolina Center for Automotive Research. According to Cobb, Lotus, who’s developing and operating the facility, knows exactly what auto manufacturers around […]

The Nation reports:
The Industry Ministry and Thailand Automotive Institute plans to propose the new government to turn the Bt6 billion excise taxes collected from the automotive industry last year for the development of a car test centre and a testing field. Industry Permanent Secretary Chakramon Phasukavanich said on Thursday that both testing field and testing […]

The VXI Technology EX400 is a hybrid systems developer’s kit designed to allow ATE and data acquisition system architects to integrate VXI-based subsystems within an LXI instrumentation network.
The core of the EX400 is a 1000 Watt, 13-slot VXI mainframe with industry-leading cooling capacity and a slot 0 module that incorporates a gigabit Ethernet interface that […]

Available for immediate download, this 200-page (5.0 Mbyte PDF file), full-color technical guidebook provides an overview on building test systems, including a strong emphasis on LXI. Topics include an introduction to test-system design, selection of software and hardware architecture, how to maximize system throughput, and exploring the range of networking options available for test system […]