Semi-scientific

The story takes various twist and turns, of company policy, betrayal, marketing, and a small Japanese calculator. Let me just tell you the story, it all started with Intel, but not Intel the processor designers as they are known for, but back in their starting days when they were still a memory chip design company. They made RAM and ROM chips, the first chip was a 64 bit static RAM chip. ...

Soft machines in general exhibit small manipulation strength and slow locomotion speed. This is caused due to the intrinsic limitations of the soft material. In general, high-speed locomotion requires fast response, high force output, large strain energy storage and precise motion of the actuators. Soft-bodied robots, due to material softness and compliance, typically show low force output, large deformation, and slow response time. Soft materials have difficulties in storing and releasing large amounts of energy rapidly, restricting the robots to gain high speed locomotion and high-strength object manipulation. ...

As a first year first year student and member of Scintilla and the “de Vonk” committee, I am met with a lot of new expressions. This includes words from student jargon which were unknown to me when I still was in high school. At my high school, it was usual to address my teachers as Mister or Madam. Where if you’d want to address the professors at their correct titles, it’d be impossible to remember in some cases. ...

Chess is considered one of the world’s oldest games, at least of the games that are still played today. It is said to have originated from ancient India and dates back to around 600AD. Since then, the game has evolved to the version we know today. The world evolved too and inventions such as the transistor were made. Partially, the transistor was a useful development for chess as it gave rise to epic chess computers, but is was not the most useful development for chess of the past 14 centuries. ...

If you were tasked with finding and tracking a 25-meter long object, you could probably apply your Electrical Engineering skills to devise a range of different methods. Whilst these methods might work on land, applying them to an aquatic environment causes problems. Conventional techniques - involving the transmission of (RF-)signals - are quickly eliminated by the attenuating properties of water (at roughly 9dB/mm [1]). This is a major problem for marine biologists who seek to track marine animals and their migration movements. ...