Engineering And Design

A look at developments in FemTech that aren’t AR face filters or menstrual cycle-trackers. — This post was originally published on the MistyWest blog for International Women’s Day. Written by Madison Hope Reid, UX Designer and Content Director at MistyWest Despite women making up 50% of the global population, the women’s health technology industry (affectionately known as FemTech) experiences stigmatization of women’s health conditions and…

The smart home space may be about to experience a revolution in IoT communication standards. — Written by Tony Jackson, Mechatronics Engineer at MistyWest The smart-home space is currently — for lack of a better term — a bit of a mess. You see a neat new device that you want to add to your home, but you have to look carefully over the documentation to…

The greater the amount of high-quality data you have, the better your machine learning model will be. This post looks at the challenges (and solutions) involved in creating and organizing a dataset when you’re starting from scratch. — Written by Kristina Pearkes, Firmware Engineer, in collaboration with Andreas Putz, Data Scientist at MistyWest Introduction Over the past decade, one of the hottest areas of innovation has been to apply machine learning to real-world applications. Google and Amazon are now using machine learning models to transcribe speech to text, interpret…

Written by Justin Lam, Software Engineer and former MistyWest employee This past January, MistyWest hosted a Vancouver Hardware Meetup webinar on the future of IoT on the cloud, where I spoke on a panel with fellow experts and innovators in IoT. MistyWest cofounder Leigh Christie, lawyer and member of AIOT…

Earlier today OpenBOM attended Develop3D Live USA event in Boston. The event is organized by Develop3D magazine — one of very few “printed” magazines I keep on my bookshelves. …

Pop-up book creator Matthew Reinhart explains the engineering behind those amazing pops. — Vocabulary: engineering, pop-up book, hinge, v-fold, layer, chain reaction, energy NGSS: SEP1- Asking Questions and Defining Problems, SEP5: Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking Common Core State Standards:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9–10.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11–12.1