Why we should explore microfiber transducersOur recent results with the joint-type transducer and the constriction transducer tell us that in order to reach cellular level sensitivity we need to explore microfibers.
Posted Jun 13, 2013, 10:00 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
New LED 850nm Mosquito is in a boxThe new LED 850nm Mosquito goes in a box. This is the Prototype II (open document to see more).We are now using it to produce different types of transducers ...
Posted Jun 12, 2013, 9:51 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
LED-based Mosquito turns out to be more stableThe making of the prototypeOn April 02, 2013, Tibi, Jonathan and Daniel had a "Mosquito Sprint" to assemble and test a new Mosquito using an LED at 850nm and ...
Posted Apr 6, 2013, 10:44 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
The Mosquito measures muscle contraction
During the night between Jan 28 and 29 Ivan, Tibi and Daniel obtained the first biological results with the Mosquito Scientific Instrument at Phil's lab. They used the Mosquito ...
Posted Feb 13, 2013, 6:44 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Activation and Relaxation of skinned musclesFresh results obtained by Ivan and James at Phil's lab. You can see activation and relaxation of a small bundle of skinned muscle cells (their membrane have been digested ...
Posted Jan 29, 2013, 11:29 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
The low cost Tape Sensor measures the Piezo motion! low cost tape sensor
piezo driver and stack
piezo stack
The low cost Tape Transducer was fixed along the piezo stack, which was activated using our new driver. The graph ...
Posted Jun 15, 2013, 8:03 PM by Sensorica Group
The Piezo Driver comes to lifeReport by FredericThis video shows the test of the piezo in one axis. We tested full speed and amplitude.
Posted Apr 28, 2013, 5:40 PM by Sensorica Group
Test of the piezo single axis unipolar We tested a simple version of the piezo device in Phil's lab. We used a NI-USB DAQ 6221 and a LabView program to control the piezo. Below you ...
Posted Dec 10, 2012, 4:55 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Building the xyz piezo
The xyz piezo driver is being assembled at your lab in Montreal by Jonathan, Sean and Bill. The first version will be used and characterized in Philippe's lab. Pictures ...
Posted Nov 6, 2012, 8:55 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Building our prototyping and manufacturing networkSENSORICA is now going beyond R&D, to production, distribution and service. We are building a value network capable of delivering complete solutions! For the last 2 months we have ...
Posted Nov 10, 2012, 5:42 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Inspection of old system and plan for installationToday, June 26, 2012 we had a meeting with Dr. Sabah and Dr. Danialou at Meakins-Christie Laboratories, to see the type of system Dr. Danialou wants to have retrofitted ...
Posted Jun 26, 2012, 10:17 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Project regains it's momentumLast Friday we had another meeting with Dr. Sabah Hussein to discuss about the installation of another Mosquito system in his lab. This project was delayed for different reasons and ...
Posted Jun 17, 2012, 10:22 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Work Party April 01, 2012Some progress was made on signal conditioning for the new Mosquito. Open Work Party report. We are still in the process of choosing the proper amp chip, but we know ...
Posted Apr 1, 2012, 11:28 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
New architecture for the mosquitoJonathan, Francois and Tibi had a Skype meeting, to brainstorm about opto-mechanical designs and electronics. They came up with new recommendations for architecture design and modules to be used ...
Posted Mar 16, 2012, 5:12 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Moving into the labThe work on electronics is almost completed and we are getting ready to move the Mosquito into the lab of Dr. Sabah Hussein. See the last report on electronics produced ...
Posted Mar 7, 2012, 9:41 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Transducer fabrication deviceWork is being done on the joint-type transducer fabrication device. Tibi, Ivan and Daniel are collaborating on this. We are still working on a prototype device, to learn what ...
Posted Jul 17, 2012, 8:06 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Previous newsWe successfully tested the second version of the joint-type transducer (open Work Party doc). We are now planning another iteration to improve it, using a silver coated fiber (see ...
Posted Mar 7, 2012, 9:13 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Constriction transducer from PMMA fiber
Today, Joel continued the work on the PMMA fiber constriction device. He completed and tested the oven containing an omega-shaped nikel-chromium alloy wire. Previously, Joel wrote the manual ...
Posted Apr 11, 2013, 1:16 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Constriction transducers reach the sensitivity of the joint-typeLast week Tibi made a few constriction transducers using the fiber cleaver, which are as sensitive as the joint-type. Two of them were brought to Phil's lab, and ...
Posted Mar 28, 2013, 2:20 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
A device for constriction fabricationTibi and Jonathan are modifying an old optical fiber splicer to fabricate the constriction transducer. The idea is to use a platinum filament to locally heat the glass fiber very ...
Posted Sep 13, 2012, 7:46 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Work partyDuring the last work party on Mars 07, 2012, we discovered that we needed to use a platinum alloy as heating element. We acquired a sample to test and it ...
Posted Mar 26, 2012, 9:14 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
First results with the bragg fiberHang, working from his lab at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, obtained the first conclusive results for the intrinsic bend-sensitive optical fiber. This optical fiber has immediate applications in ...
Posted Jan 22, 2013, 7:41 PM by Sensorica Group
Project is startingWe are getting ready to perform the first tests on some polymer bandgap fibers. Ordered the (330micron and 125micron inner diameter) connectors for polishing the fiber about two weeks ago ...
Posted Nov 22, 2012, 6:37 PM by hang qu
ENGAGE grant was awarded!A $25,000 grant was awarded on Oct 5th, 2012. The goal of this project is to design new optical fiber displacement/force transducers. See grant application - members only. See ...
Posted Oct 15, 2012, 6:43 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Ecole Polytechnique accepted to transfer the ENGAGE grant application to NSERCThe Ecole Polytechnique accepted to transfer the ENGAGE grant application to NSERC. Good news ! This is the second hurdle cleared for obtaining this grant, which will be used for developing ...
Posted Aug 28, 2012, 5:29 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
ENGAGE grant - moving forwardFrançois Santerre, our contact at NSERC, gave us the green light to submit our ENGAGE grant proposal with Maksim Skorobogatiy for the development of other types of force-sensitive optical ...
Posted Aug 4, 2012, 5:37 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Drop mixing - improving silver depositionOne problem we had in the past was the mixing of solutions in the drop. The glucose drop is more viscous than pure water. When we add the silver solution ...
Posted May 31, 2012, 5:20 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Wet fiber coating of the entire glass fiberWe modified our optical fiber we coating technique to coat the entire length of the fiber. The idea is to go from a drop to a grove filled with solutions ...
Posted May 4, 2012, 8:31 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Wet silver coating can be automated!We are pleased to announce our last results on wet silver coating in a drop. A Mosquito was used to monitor the coating process in real time. The adjacent graph ...
Posted Apr 22, 2012, 10:25 AM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Back to coating!We are planning another optical fiber coating work party for next week to produce a few joint-type transducers with a silver coated glass LEVER, for the Mosquito that is ...
Posted Mar 7, 2012, 10:00 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Previous announcementsExperimentation for proof of concept approaching completion. See ongoing research. Device design under way.Device for silver wet coating for single optical fiber (members only)Precision metal coating of small ...
Posted Mar 7, 2012, 9:54 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Beginning of this projectThis project was a natural direction, combining the Mosquito sensor and the XYZ piezo micromanipulators. On the first of June we officially started our project with Philippe Comtois at the ...
Posted Jul 8, 2012, 3:39 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Beginning of this projectThe idea of making smart sports equipment has been around within SENSORICA for more than one year (see this communication from SENSORICA general mailing list for example - members only). After ...
Posted Jul 15, 2012, 9:59 PM by Tiberius Brastaviceanu
