Entries for September 2009
For purposes of ghosting SysPrepped PC's it could be important to switch Windows XP to AHCI after installing Windows. We have been doing this with our Dell laptops.
Our baseline SysPrep image works well on Dell Precision M65's and M4300...
It is well-known that increasing the number of pins on an integrated circuit (IC) increases its cost. To reduce the number of pins, several serial protocols have been developed to transfer data between IC's. One such protocol, I2C, uses only 2 bi...
I have been working on a 3D vision application using the SICK Ranger camera. My application involves precision measurement, so I want to get the best results possible from the equipment.
The Ranger came with a Fujinon 35mm lens which focused shar...
We are happy to announce a new section of our website has gone live: DMC White Papers! We have planned on adding this section ever since we revamped our website four months ago. At this point in time we have two white papers.
First there is Ken Br...
Author's Notes: This blog is from my undergraduate Senior Thesis Project at Kettering University (formerly GMI Engineering and Management Institute) published in early 2002. This thesis received "Passed with Distinct...
For a DMC engineer it is not atypical to be faced with outdated, legacy technology. Maybe a customer has come to us to upgrade a system that an intern did in the 90's; maybe a company's engineers have built up a system over the past decade an...
Earlier in 2009, Microsoft declared the old FlexGrid control that came with VB6 a security threat. A security patch banned its use.
FlexGrid was an ActiveX control that was commonly distributed with many applications including Office. It has been ...