omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Scribbler (robot). The Scribbler is a small, low-cost fully programmable intelligent robot with multiple sensor systems. It is capable of auto navigation and interaction with its environment.

The Scribbler is a combined effort of three companies: Parallax Inc., Element Products Inc., and Bueno Systems Inc. In May 2010, the Scribbler was selling for a retail price of around US$100.

A newer version of the Scribbler, Scribbler 2, came out in the fourth quarter of 2010, and Scribbler 3 is also now available.

The Scribbler has a built in BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller brain. For inputting sensory information, the Scribbler has three photoresistor light sensors, infrared emitter, and infrared detector. Additional add-ons can be bought to give the robot more capabilities through the serial port. For example, a bluetooth emitter/receiver or a wireless card can be bought to interface with the robot.

The Scribbler can be programmed through any BASIC Stamp Editor program, or through a GUI-style interface, provided on Parallax's website. This uses different "command tiles" to control the motors and sensors. Using a Myro library, you can also program the Scribbler in Python.

The Scribbler is used by many teachers for educational purposes. For example, Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) has developed extensive educational materials using the Scribbler.

References

External links
 Scribbler (роботы)

Hobbyist robots
Educational robots
Ken Fleming (engineer). Wilfred George Kenneth Fleming (known as Ken) was an influential piling engineer and former chairman of the Federation of Piling Contractors.

Early life and education

Born in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh Ken Fleming was the son of a Church of Ireland minister.

In July 1945, he won the Seale Scholarship to Portora Royal School.

He graduated from Queen's University Belfast (1955) and became an assistant lecturer, later being awarded a PhD in 1958.

Working life

In 1958 Ken Fleming joined J. Laing and Sons (in Mill Hill, London, NW7). When Laing’s joined up to form McKinney Foundations, Fleming was involved as a technical advisor for the piling foundations for London's Centre Point. He also travelled to America where he spent time with company founder Jack McKinney who encouraged his interest in developing improved piling techniques.

McKinney Foundations was bought by Cementation Foundations in 1968 and Ken Fleming became chief engineer. At Cementation, Fleming was involved in the development of a series of new systems for improving the receptiveness of the ground to secure piles and to provide reliable information on the settlement of piles. Ken Fleming created the "Cemset" system which forecasts pile settlement under load.

He became chairman of the Federation of Piling Contractors, and in 1975 chairman and founder member of the Federation of Piling Specialists.

In 1985 he was the lead author of Piling Engineering, which has become an industry standard reference book. The third edition of Piling Engineering, still containing much of Fleming's original material, published in September 2008.

Fleming influenced European piling through the European Federation of Foundation Contractors. He disagreed with parts of the Eurocode EC7. Among other objections he believed it had fundamental technical flaws in relation to pile testing.

The British Standards Institution awarded Fleming its Distinguished Service award in 1992. In 1999 the British Geotechnical Society honoured him with the prestigious Skempton Medal for his lifelong contribution to geotechnical engineering.

In 2000 the British Geotechnical Association joined with Cementation (now part of Skanska) to mark Fleming's contribution to geotechnical engineering by inaugurating the Fleming Award. This international award is presented annually for excellence in geotechnical design and construction.

A visiting Professor at Queen's University Belfast, Fleming was also a prominent figure in the Institution of Civil Engineers.

External links
 Obituary from The New Civil Engineer Magazine
 Details of the Cementation Skanska Fleming Award in memory of Ken Fleming

References

1933 births
2001 deaths
British civil engineers
Academics of Queen's University Belfast
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Engineers from County Fermanagh
Nikolay Makarov (firearms designer). Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov () was a Soviet firearms designer, most notable for his Makarov pistol. He was given the title Hero of Socialist Labour in 1974.

Biography
Makarov was born on 22 May 1914 in the village of Sasovo to the family of a railway worker. In 1936, he enrolled to the Tula Mechanical Institute. At the onset of the Axis invasion, he was preparing for his graduation. He was hastily qualified as an engineer and sent to the Zagorski Machine Works (now in Sergiyev Posad). The plant was soon evacuated to Kirov Oblast. In 1944, Makarov returned to Tula, and graduated from the Tula Mechanical Institute with honors. In 1945, he took part in a pistol design competition that aimed to find a replacement for the TT pistol and Nagant M1895 revolver (the former was in use since 1930 and the latter since the late 1800s). Makarov's work, which made use of some elements of the Walther PP, won the competition and was adopted by the army in 1951. Makarov continued designing firearms in Tula until his retirement in 1974. Later, he was elected to the Soviet of Working People's Deputies in Tula Oblast, and was chosen as a council member of the scientific and technological society Mashprom.

He died on 13 May 1988 as a result of his seventh heart attack and was buried at the 1st Municipal Cemetery in Tula.

Weapon designs

 Makarov pistol (added to Soviet Army armory in 1951)
 Afanasev Makarov AM-23 cannon together with Nikolai Afanasyev (added to armory in 1953)
 9K111 Fagot (added to armory in 1970)
 9M113 Konkurs (added to armory in 1974)

Awards
Stalin Prize (1952)
USSR State Prize (1967)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1966)
Order of Lenin (1971, 1974)
Hero of Socialist Labour (1974)

References

1914 births
1988 deaths
People from Tambov Governorate
Heroes of Socialist Labour
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Firearm designers
Soviet engineers
Soviet inventors
Weapon designers from the Soviet Union
S52. S52 may refer to:
 S52 (New York City bus), serving Staten Island
 BMW S52, an automobile engine
 Expressway S52 (Poland)
 S52: Not recommended for interior use on large surface areas, a safety phrase
 SIAI S.52, an Italian prototype fighter aircraft
 Sikorsky S-52, an American helicopter
 Shorland S52, a British armoured car
S53. S53 may refer to:
 S53 (New York City bus), serving Staten Island
 Dhurga language, an Australian Aboriginal language
 S53: Avoid exposure - obtain special instructions before use, a safety phrase
 Shorland S53, a British armoured car
 Sikorsky S-53, an American helicopter
 Tsonga language, a Bantu language
 Saviem S53, a Saviem bus model
 Toyota S53, a Toyota S transmission
 ZIS-S-53, an Anti air and Anti-tank gun
S54. S54 may refer to:

Aircraft 
 Blériot-SPAD S.54, a French biplane trainer
 Sikorsky S-54, an American helicopter
 Sukhoi S-54, a proposed Russian trainer aircraft

Other uses 
 S54 (Long Island bus)
 S54 (New York City bus), serving Staten Island
 BMW S54, an automobile engine
 Prince Skyline (S54), a Japanese sedan
 Ronga language, a Bantu language
 Shorland S54, a British armoured car
 Walbunja language, an Australian Aboriginal language
 Toyota S54, a Toyota S transmission model
Esmaiel Jabbari. Esmaiel Jabbari is a full professor of chemical engineering at the University of South Carolina.

Education
Jabbari obtained his B.S. in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1982 and then got his master's degree in chemistry and chemical engineering from the same place in 1986 and 1989 respectively. He then continued his education at Purdue University, where, after spending five years under the supervision from Nicholas A. Peppas, he received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering.

Career
From 1993 to 1994 Jabbari was a postdoctoral research fellow at Monsanto Biotechnical Group and then became an adjunct professor of chemical engineering at the Washington University. Until September 2001, Esmaiel Jabbari worked as an associate professor at Tehran Polytechnic (now Amirkabir University of Technology). From September 2001 to July 2002 he was a visiting scholar at Rice University and following it, served as senior research associate at the Mayo Clinic. Since 2015 Jabbari works as full professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, after propelling to it from tenured and adjunct-associate in 2004, 2007 and 2009 respectively. During those times, he also was a visiting professor at Tohoku University in Tōhoku Region, Japan, and at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

He serves as academic editor of PLOS One. He also serves as North American editor of the Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and on the editorial board of International Journal of Biomaterials and the International Journal of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Awards and honors

Source:
Omega Rho (1988)
Sigma Xi (1988)
Phi Lambda Upsilon (1989)
Outstanding College Students of America (1989)
Member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1993)
Tau Beta Pi (2006)
Berton Rahn Prize Award, AO Foundation (2012)
Elected Fellow of the College of Fellows of the AIMBE (2013)

References

External links
Jabbari's Chemical Engineering webpage
Jabbari's research group
Jabbari's Biomedical Engineering webpage
Jabbari's AIMBE webpage

Handbook of Biomimetics and Bioinspiration edited by Jabbari et al.

1961 births
Living people
Virginia Tech alumni
Purdue University College of Agriculture alumni
American bioengineers
Rice University faculty
Mayo Clinic people
University of South Carolina faculty
Academic staff of Tohoku University
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Crackle tube. A crackle tube is a type of plasma lamp that is used most commonly in museums, night clubs, movie sets, and other applications where its appearance may be appealing for entertainment. Such a device consists of a double walled glass tube with a hollow center. The cavity between the inner and outer glass tubes is filled with thousands of small phosphor coated glass beads. A 5–14 kV transformer produces a low power gas discharge in the bead filled cavity, producing filaments of light that simulate lightning. Crackle tubes get their name not because of the sound they produce but rather because of the appearance of their internal behavior. The "lightning" (filaments or streamers) is forced around and in between the phosphor-coated glass beads, due to the beads' dielectric nature. In so doing, the phosphor is excited by the electrical energy and fluoresces producing visible light. Like plasma globes, crackle tubes respond to touch; the filaments appear to be "attracted" toward the point of contact and usually become more luminous (brighter) as the electricity is grounded. The tubes are also filled with a noble gas like neon, argon, or xenon which acts as the electron transfer medium of the cavity. The gas is typically below atmospheric pressure. 

Typically, crackle tubes are cylindrical, however, they can be made into virtually any shape, even flat plates (trademarked by the name "Luminglas" ). The filaments can also be made to any color by combining different chemicals with the base phosphor. The chemical that is used to produce blue filaments is also responsive to ultraviolet light. The filaments can change color as they progress along the length of the tube. This effect is created by using glass beads with different chemical coatings on them, and the color of the filament changes as the electrical discharge transitions from one color layer to another. Chemical coatings can also be combined onto a single coating, allowing for a crackle tube to have multiple simultaneous filaments of several different colors.

Crackle tubes appear white when viewed in their off state under normal lighting conditions. Their luminosity, or light intensity, depends on several factors, but generally crackle tubes are not very bright when compared to a fluorescent light or incandescent lamp. They are best viewed in darkness. Their transformers can also be linked to an acoustic modulator, allowing the tubes to 'respond' to music or ambient noise.

See also

Plasma (physics)
List of light sources

References

Gas discharge lamps
New Standard D-25. The New Standard D-25 was a 5-seat agricultural and joy-riding aircraft produced in the US from 1928.

Construction
The D-25 was constructed primarily from Duralumin and wood. Duralumin stringers were used for the fuselage, with duralumin sheets riveted onto them. Unlike the fuselage, the wings were mostly of wood, with a main spar made of spruce, basswood for the stringers, and plywood for reinforcement, along with fabric coverings for the wing area and control surfaces. The D series was quite distinctive in having  sesquiplane wings with the upper wing, of much bigger span and chord, supported on tall cabane and interplane struts.

Operational use
Seating for four passengers was provided in the open front cockpit, described as "chummy", with the pilot in the single seat open rear cockpit. Variations in seating arrangement reflected the role of the different variants. The rugged structure gave the New Standard Ds a long-life, leading to the respectable number that survived the abuse of joy-riding, mail carrying and crop dusting for many years.

Two D-25As that had been confiscated from smugglers were acquired by the US Coast Guard in 1935, designated NT-2.

Variants

 Gates-Day GD-24 - precursor to New Standard D series 3 built.
 New Standard D-24 - production version of GD-24 4 built + 2 converted from GD-24.
 New Standard D-25 - 5-seat "joy-rider"
 New Standard D-25A - 225 hp Wright J-6
 New Standard D-25B - 300 hp Wright J-6 crop-duster produced by White Aircraft Co. 1940
 New Standard D-25C - alternative designation of D-29S
 New Standard D-25X - modified D-25 construction number 203.
 New Standard NT-2 - 2 x D-25 impounded from whiskey smugglers, donated to US Coast Guard.
 New Standard D-26 - 3-seat business/executive transport.
 New Standard D-26A & D-26B - D-26 with 225 hp Wright J-6.
 New Standard D-27 - single seat mail/cargo carrier
 New Standard D-27A - D-27 with night flying equipment
 New Standard D-28 - floatplane conversion of D-26
 New Standard D-30 - floatplane modified D-25
 New Standard D-25 - New production of modified D-25As

Operators

Alaskan Airways (D-25)
Clifford Ball Inc. (D-27)
Goodfolk & O'Tymes Biplane Rides (D-25)
 Cole Palen's Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome (2 D-25s, N176H active, N19157 undergoing restoration  
United States Coast Guard

Specifications (D-25)

See also

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links
 Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome's N176H New Standard D-25 page (current ride aircraft in 2021)
 Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome's N19157 New Standard D-25 page (aircraft under restoration in 2021)

1920s United States sport aircraft
Sesquiplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1929
International Journal of Software and Informatics. The International Journal of Software and Informatics is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal of computer science. It was started by the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It covers the following topics: Artificial intelligence and pattern recognition, computer software, computer-aided applications, formal methods, multimedia techniques, theoretical computer science, network and information security, and related areas including quantum informatics, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, and cognitive science.

The journal's editor in chief is Ruqian Lu (Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).

See also 
 Scientific publishing in China

External links 
 

Computer science journals
Science and technology in the People's Republic of China
Academic journals established in 2007
English-language journals
Klaus Dierks. Karl Otto Ludwig Klaus Dierks (19 February 1936 – 17 March 2005) was a German-born Namibian deputy government minister, a transport planner and civil engineer in Namibia.

Biography
Dierks was born in 1936 in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. He studied civil engineering and history at Technische Universität Berlin and earned a diploma in Engineering in 1965 and doctorates in 1965 and 1992. Immediately after receiving his diploma, Dierks became an engineer in South Africa before moving to what is now Namibia.

In 1982 Dierks became a member of resistance movement SWAPO rising to be a member of its Central Committee. He argued for the "Development of the infrastructure regarding the road system in an independent SWA/ Namibia" in 1979 when both the topic of independence and the name "Namibia" were considered revolutionary. In the 1980s he was forced to resign after 22 years of service, and he then set up his own consultative business. It was at this time that Dierks started to write about Namibian history, "pursuing an academic war against the apartheid regime" by outlining the cultural and economic development of the area before the encroachment of European settlers and missionaries, a fact contested by the colonial regime.

At Namibian independence in 1990 he became deputy minister, first with the Works, Transport and Communication portfolio and later in the Ministry for Mines and Energy. He was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from independence until 2000, when he retired from politics. He was known for his love of history,  mountaineering and photography.

Positions
 1990-1995 Deputy Minister in the Namibian Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications
 1995-2000 Deputy Minister in the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy
Later he served with the Namibian Electricity Control Board energy regulator and he managed to turn around TransNamib (the Namibian railway company) from loss to profit in three years.

Publications
Dierks wrote a number of scientific publications including his doctorate on the development of an improved road system in Namibia and publications on history and the settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the Great Karas Mountains. He also wrote a number of publications in the field of transport and telecommunications and the book Chronology of Namibian History: From Pre-historical Times to Independent Namibia.

Family
Klaus Dierks lived up until his death with his wife Karen von Bremen and his four children in Windhoek.

References

1936 births
2005 deaths
Members of the National Assembly (Namibia)
Technische Universität Berlin alumni
German emigrants to Namibia
SWAPO politicians
Government ministers of Namibia
White Namibian people
Namibian engineers
20th-century engineers
Euro Quebec Hydro Hydrogen Project. The Euro Quebec Hydro Hydrogen Project or EQHHP (also known as Euro Quebec Hydro Hydrogen Pilot Project or EQHHPP) was a 100 MW pilot project to study the shipping of Canadian hydropower converted via electrolysis into hydrogen and the shipping of the hydrogen to Hamburg, Germany. The time frame of phase B was 1992 to 1997.

The method of transport is a hydrogen tanker that carries smaller highly insulated hydrogen tanks filled with liquid hydrogen.

See also 
 Hydrogen economy

References

External links 
 

Hydrogen infrastructure
Rob White (Formula One). Rob White (born 15 July 1965) is a Formula One engineer from England. He serves as the Chief Operations Officer for the upcoming Cadillac Formula One Team, which is set to debut in 2026.

Career
White was born in Camblesforth, West Riding of Yorkshire. After leaving school he worked for Jaguar Cars, who agreed to sponsor him to take a mechanical engineering course at Southampton University. White graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1987. Upon graduating, White responded to an advertisement from Cosworth Racing Limited and was hired as a development engineer for their IndyCar project, working under Chief Engineer Steve Miller.

In 1990, White was promoted to the position of senior development engineer. In 1993 he moved to California as track support manager for Cosworth USA.

In 1997, White returned to England and worked as chief engineer to Cosworth's Formula One operations. In 2003, three years before Ford left Formula One and a year before Cosworth was sold to Kevin Kalkhoven, White left Cosworth. The following year he moved to the Renault F1 team to act as engine technical director alongside Bob Bell (chassis technical director).

In April 2005, White was promoted to deputy managing director of the engine operations at Renault F1, following the departure of Bernard Dudot. This meant moving to Renault's engine department located in Viry-Châtillon, France. At the time of his appointment, White did not speak French despite being required to lead a predominantly French workforce. He also retained his role as technical director.

In 2016, White moved to became the director of operations for Team Enstone. He departed from the team (then known as Alpine) in 2024. 

White joined the upcoming Cadillac F1 Team in late 2024, currently serving as the team's Chief Operations Officer.

References
Magazine
 F1 Racing Magazine (Indonesian version) - May 2006, page 62–65.
Cite

External links
Rob White profile in Renault Sport F1 

1965 births
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Formula One engineers
Formula One engine engineers
People from Selby District
Living people
English motorsport people
Renault people
Sportspeople from Yorkshire
16ft Skiff. A 16 ft Skiff is a class of three-person sailing dinghy with twin trapezes and a large asymmetrical spinnaker. The class is unique to Australia, where it is one of the most popular boats sailing with 75 boats registered in 7 clubs. The class has the largest fleet of high performance skiffs on the east coast of Australia. Due to the nature of only allowing two trapezes, the age of the sailors can vary between 15 and 60 years old, making it a versatile class of boat.

Construction 
The hull, spars and foils are all constructed out of a carbon composite reinforced polymer. Manufacturers of these hulls are generally local boat builders, however are now being sourced overseas. The total weight of the boat is no more than 85 kg fully rigged, resulting in an extremely high sail area to weight ratio.

History
The class has been around for over a century and has changed significantly since its beginnings:
1901
Class founded in Balmain

1908
Class expands to Queensland

1922
Class spreads to Western Australia

1976
Rules change to allow any material for hull

1986
Three man crew introduced

1997–98
Stick class rules were introduced

Class specifications

Overall length—
Construction—Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP)
Min beam—
Max beam—
Min weight—
Working sail area—
Spinnaker sail area—
Racing crew—Three

External links
 Skiffs.org.au

References

Dinghies