In the modern business environment, many employees are traveling or working from home. To compensate for this, many companies offer a VPN service, where employees can access a company’s private network over the internet. This offers a secure method of accessing this information through an encrypted tunnel. The VPN service also allows remote management of […]
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Introduction 1.1 Motivation On August 14, 2003, North America suffered its largest blackout. Major 345 kV transmission lines dropped out of service, unbeknownst to operators, causing a cascading outage that extended across the Midwest, Northeast, and into Canada [1]. An investigation launched by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) found that the blackout could
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This module acts as a tutorial to help users build a cluster of Nvidia Jetson TK1 cluster for Parallel Programming and Distributed Processing. The guide is a step by step procedure to build a 6 Node TK1 cluster with a shared network file system. Note that clusters can be of any length n≥2. Basic knowledge
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The navigation methods currently employed by many autonomous vehicle companies such asGoogle, Uber, and Telsa rely upon manually driving roadways and gathering information aboutthe roadway infrastructure with lidar before any autonomous navigation is possible. While thismethod can be very effective, issues can arise when the roadway undergoes changes such as duringconstruction or road closure. Additionally,
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Introduction Manufacturing companies have different ways to meet the market demand, some companiesdeliver end products from their inventory to the customers. Other companies, instead of keepingthe finished goods inventories, they assemble or manufacture end products only after theyreceive the customer order. However, producing finished goods to order does not necessarilymean that the manufactured item is
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Hardware Setup WARNING: Experience with flying Remotely Controlled QuadÂCopter is required. Binding Procedure Binding is required the first time the craft is used with a new transmitter. It is doneusing the following procedure. To place Rx into binding mode, pace a wire jumper across PCB board “Term 8” Pins 1& 4. This will force the
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1 Introduction The scrubber is a device that bombards microchannel plates (MCP’s) with electrons, thus“scrubbing” them. This is done both to stabilize the gain of the MCPs and to, as the namewould suggest, clean them of any residue. As detailed by Tyler Lutz in his collection ofdesign documents1, a mercury vapor bulb and a nichrome
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Raspberry Pi running Wheezy (Debian 7) There’s a few different way to figure out what distribution you have. You can do:$lsb_release -aor$cat /proc/version (didn’t work for me)or$cat /etc/*-releaseI’m sure there are other ways. Here are the results for all 3: (Note: I tried getting this project going using Jessie (Debian 8) and had mixed results.
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1Â Â Â Introduction As our connection to the internet becomes increasingly important and as new forms of dispens- ing internet services emerge, it is important to identify weak-spots in any internet network. We propose developing Raspberry Pi devices which will continuously monitor the strength of a WiFi signal (Eduroam in our case) and output the values to
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Introduction ’Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem and a big idea turn in to innovation.’ – Dean Kamen National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration or more commonly known as NHTSA is a federal agency of the US state government. The agency did a survey in 2018 to estimate the speed
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