Smart windows passively driven by greenhouse effect

Engineering Smart Windows Using Arduino

The Window, a common household feature has great potential to become an automated system implemented in homes across the globe. In this project we designed and constructed a prototype of a marketable Smart Window utilizing the Arduino microcontroller. This open-source platform allowed us to use a variety of sensors to evaluate internal and external conditions and adjust the settings of a room a...

Greenhouse Effect

Global warming from the increase in greenhouse gases has become a major scientific and political issue during the past decade. That infrared radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases and particles in a planetary atmosphere and that the atmospheric CO2 level has increased by some 25 percent since 1850 because of fossil fuel combustion and land use (largely deforestation) are not controversial; le...

Smart Windows: Ultrathin Fluidic Laminates for Large‐Area Façade Integration and Smart Windows (Adv. Sci. 3/2017)

Behavior-Driven Testing of Windows Device Drivers

Commercial-off-the-shelf operating systems (COTS OSs) increasingly favor adaptability to support diverse application and hardware peripherals in detriment to targeting robustness of OS services. The COTS OSs interface to hardware devices is provided by the device-drivers1. Furthermore, drivers have themselves become add-on COTS components, enhancing OS’s adaptability. Unfortunately, drivers con...

A passively safe cable driven upper limb rehabilitation exoskeleton.

BACKGROUND When using upper limb exoskeletons that assist the movement of physically weak people, safety should be the most important index. OBJECTIVE In this paper, a passively safe, cable-driven upper limb exoskeleton with parallel actuated joints, which perfectly mimics human motions, is proposed. METHODS Compared with the existing upper limb exoskeletons which are mostly designed only c...