Moore's law specifically speaks to the density of transistors on an integrated circuit, but often is applied to all thingsĬomputer. Who doesn't like a science fantasy story? I didn't participate in this story, but it might be fun to read if it does get written. I got an email the other day asking if I would contribute to an online story about how different things would be in 2020 "if Moore's law continues to hold true." When I replied that 2020 was only 3.5 years away and Moore doesn't believe his law is holding true anymore, there was no Things don't seem to be changing very fast.
You could look at this design and learn from it. The Phantom haptic device is a good example of a design that follows these principles and is at the scale of small movements of the hands and fingers. The structure needs to be very light, there needs to be no backlash and the actuators need to be backdrivable.
If you are going to try to design a force feedback manual controller, it needs to be very high bandwidth. That, but I don't recommend a manual controller that is at the scale of whole arm or body My experience is that humans are most precise using the small muscles of their hands and fingers, and that's the scale of a traditional joystick. The hand controller part is also often called the manualįrankly, if you only need to control X, Y and Z it's going to be tough to beat a traditional joystick like you already have. I bet there's a visual component (computer screen, VR goggles, etc.) along with the hand controller part. Here is howĭear Student: I would call what you are working on a Human Machine Interface (HMI). It springs back to neutral when no force is applied. They areĬurrently using an "RC style" joystick with the twistĬontrolling z-axis motion and up-down/back-forth controlling x and I got an email the other day from an undergraduate student askingĪbout a control interface for a micro-manipulator. If we don’t make the cost of imported items reflect their true cost, aren’t we in fact subsidizing imported manufactured goods through our welfare system? I would love to hear reader’s thoughts on this.
Since jobs lost in this way will cost this country money because we must support the unemployed, why doesn’t it make sense to tax the imported items at the border? That way the people considering buying the imported items will If we take it as a given that jobs have become a zero-sum game, then every imported manufactured good has necessarily caused job loss in this country.
The people that are employed must pay for the support. We can argue about the quality of the support, but no one can say that In the United States, there is some basic level of support given to people regardless of whether they are employed. That is, a job gained in one country necessarily means a job lost in another country. I believe global trade and automation have already made jobs across the world a zero-sum game. It is a simple equation, but I wonder if automation is changing the calculus? Just about all experts in automation agree that increasing unemployment of humans is inevitable and soon (if not already) there won’t be enough jobs for everyone that wants one. Traditional economics says that tariffs are bad because less-expensive imported goods are good for consumers. Tariffs on imported goods have been in the news lately.