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  • Blog Post: 3D Metrology: The Third Dimension and why you need it

    Hello and welcome to the new Texas Instruments DLP 3D Metrology forum. I have spent almost 25 years working on a variety of machine vision applications with Texas Instruments and DLP® Products. Now, DLP Products is moving into 3D Metrology applications using structured light fringe patterns generated...
  • Blog Post: Come Join the DLP Team at Photonics West January 24-29

    Happy New Year to one and all!!! I am really looking forward to 2009 and all that it may bring, which hopefully includes a few more friends and a few less pounds… J The DLP® team is hosting a booth at Photonics West this year (January 24-29). We hope that you will stop by to see some...
  • Blog Post: If One Is Good, Three MUST Be Better, Right?

    This installment I will actually attempt to do something useful and answer a frequently asked question about the DLP ® Pico™ Projector Development Kit optical engine. The optical engine uses one each red, green, and blue LEDs (three total) arranged much like the figure below. ( Note, this figure...
  • Blog Post: WOW!!! What’s going on out there? – Part Deux

    As promised, here is the final installment of my summary of the conference titled “Emerging DMD-Based Systems and Applications” held on Wednesday, January 28 at SPIE Photonics West (January 24 to 29, 2009 in San Jose, CA). As I said in my last posting, I thought I knew what was going on with...
  • Blog Post: 3D Metrology at 17,210 MPH

    On Wednesday, August 8 th , 2007 at 6:36 pm EDT, the Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from the Florida coast into low Earth orbit to deliver the S5 truss and the third External Storage Platform (ESP-3) to the International Space Station (ISS). On approach to the ISS, the Shuttle performed the standard...
  • Blog Post: Get the Picture, the Whole Picture, and Nothing But the Picture

    Perhaps one of the most underrated features of the DLP ® Pico™ Projector Development Kit optical engine is something called “offset”. For some of us relics, this word “offset” reminds us of a printing process like that used to print currency. Our children and grandchildren...
  • Blog Post: Photonics West 2011 – Be There, Aloha

    For the third year in a row, DLP Products will be hosting a conference at Photonics West titled “Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications.” Don’t let the title of this blog send you too far west. It will be in San Francisco again this year, not Hawaii. I was...