Introduction to Residential Layout

Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeking a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of designing and laying out residential areas.

Mike Biddulph provides a clear and coherent framework from which he offers comprehensive practical advice for designers of housing developments. Referring to a wealth of international examples, this is a richly illustrated, accessible resource covering the whole range of issues that should be considered by
anyone engaging in the planning and design of a new residential scheme.

A successful residential development must work on many levels – financial, social and environmental. This book includes analysis of commercial viability, the importance of place making, environmental sustainability and designing accessibility. Mike Biddulph details successful approaches to designing out crime and maximising permeability as part of an integrated approach to urban design.

Highly illustrated throughout, this work will show you how to turn design aspirations and principles into practical design solutions. Written without preconceptions, Introduction to Residential Design
highlights the strengths and weaknesses of particular design solutions to encourage both depth of thought and creativity.

Mike Biddulph is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at Cardiff University
* The only textbook that provides practical design advice sourced from principles of residential layout design
* Comprehensive coverage of urban design theory gives an ideal introduction to the subject
* Encompasses sustainability, accessibility and holistic design – all the key concerns in designing the built environment

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Laser weapon design hits 100-kilowatt target

From the week gone by on the directed-energy weapons front: defense contractor Northrop Grumman reported that it got a solid-state laser to fire a beam with a potency of 105.5 kilowatts.

For the ray-gun wing of the military-industrial complex, the 100-kilowatt threshold is a major milestone, marking the entry point to weapons-grade laser weapons. Adding to the appeal is that solid-state lasers are much more compact, and less noxious, than chemical laser systems such as the one in the works for the 747-centric Airborne Laser.

The technical details of Northrop’s achievement break down this way, starting with a modular, “building block” approach that bodes well for scalable systems, the company said: For building blocks, the company utilizes “laser amplifier chains,” each producing approximately 15kW of power in a high-quality beam. Seven laser chains were combined to produce a single beam of 105.5 kW. The seven-chain JHPSSL laser demonstrator ran for more than five minutes, achieved electro-optical efficiency of 19.3 percent, reaching full power in less than 0.6 seconds, all with beam quality of better than 3.0.

Adding an eighth chain that the system was designed for would increase laser power to 120 kilowatts, Northrop says.

Where this test saw five minutes of continuous operation for the laser, altogether the system has been operated at above 100 kilowatts for a total duration of more than 85 minutes.

The efforts are part of the Pentagon’s Joint High Power Solid State Laser (JHPSSL) program.

Even though 100 kilowatts has long been the “proof of principle” sought for weapons systems, Northrop says that “in fact, many militarily useful effects can be achieved by laser weapons of 25 kW or 50 kW, provided this energy is transmitted with good beam quality, as our system does.”

Of course, this is still a laboratory laser system and not a field-tested, ruggedized product. “It is still a little heavy and a little big,” Dan Wildt, vice president of Northrop’s directed energy systems program, told the LA Times.

That’s probably a significant understatement. Says Noah Schactman at Wired’s Danger Room blog of the news from Northrop: Does that mean energy weapons are a done deal? Hardly. There are still all sorts of technical issues–thermal management and miniaturization, to name two–that have to be handled first. Then, the ray gunners have to find the money. The National Academies figure it’ll take another $100 million to get battlefield lasers right.

In a separate post, Schachtman reports on what’s involved in getting specific laser systems ready to go over the next several years.

Earlier this year, Boeing said that it had used a “kilowatt-class” solid-state laser to shoot down a UAV from a ground-based system. The company hopes that the Airborne Laser, meanwhile, will do its first-ever aerial target shoot sometime in 2009.

Sumber: CNet.com

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Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Pro 2009

 Bagi anda yang bekerjadan menghitung kekuatan struktur bangunan atau framework/plateform mesin, sebaiknya anda menggunakan software ini. Belum lama dikeluarkan oleh Autodesk. Woww analysis dan perhitungan engineering menjadi lebih simple dan akurat. Boleh di buktikan. Mau?

Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Pro 2009
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Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis Professional software provides a scalable, country-specific analysis solution for the structural engineer to analyze many types of structures, including buildings, bridges, civil, and specialty structures.

Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional calculates a wide variety of structures with a comprehensive collection of design codes, delivering results in minutes, not hours. This structural engineering software is versatile enough for simple structural frame analysis or complex finite element analysis and offers seamless interoperability with Autodesk companion products as well as an open application programming interface (API).

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Teknologi Robot Untuk Militer

Ada sebuah artikel menarik di Washington University di St Louis situs tentang peningkatan penggunaan robotics dalam operasi militer. Beberapa peneliti universitas dan Smart dicatat bahwa militer mengharapkan agar robot diimplementasikan sebagai kekuatan sampai 30% di tahun 2020 oleh militer. Dengan peningkatan penyebaran yang tak udara kendaraan (UAV), robot mencari IED dan perangkat pengawasan robot,  dengan ini tampaknya tujuan penciptaan robot akan segera tercapai. Dengan memperhatikan hal itu mungkin waktu untuk yang akan mempertanyakan militer robot dapat digunakan untuk fasilitas keamanan dari radiasi kimia?

Menurut artikel yang ini generasi robot perangkat disebarkan dengan militer AS memanfaatkan beberapa tingkat teleoperation; yang jauh manusia menggunakan perangkat komunikasi untuk mengontrol operasi dari robot. Dpt diramalkan untuk masa depan robot perangkat militer dan keamanan layanan mereka akan memiliki fungsi utama jauh oleh dengan pengendali manusia. Pada umumnya peningkatan penggunaannya diarahkan sebagai robot penolong atau kontrol dari perangkat dan layanan.

Security Roles for Robots

Most military robots currently deployed are being used as human-substitutes in high risk situations like explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) or IED detection. The defining exception to that generality is the use of UAV’s for long-linger time observation of remote areas. This is the most likely model for initial robotic security deployments.

Many large chemical facilities have lengthy perimeters that are difficult to secure. Irregular fence lines, natural and man-made obstructions, and lack of manpower make it difficult to detect and confirm perimeter incursions. Early detection is the key to allowing for adequate deployment times for active security measures.

Perimeter Surveillance

Larger UAV’s like the Predator would not be practical for any but the largest facilities. There are a number of smaller UAV’s that may be more appropriate for large high-risk chemical facilities. They could be used for both routine perimeter patrol and immediate response for checking out intrusion detection system alerts. Adding chemical sensors would allow for their use in monitoring dispersion of chemical clouds.

As the ability to employ semi-autonomous navigation (point-to-point route selection for example) for ground robots improves their utility for perimeter patrol and immediate response will increase. If the operator can navigate the robot by selecting a series of pre-programmed locations instead of driving the robot, a single operator will then be able to operate multiple observation robots. This will go a long way to overcoming the security manpower cost problem.

Armed Robots for Emergency Response

One of the most controversial uses of robotics in military service is the use of the robot as a weapons platform. Even with full teleoperational control of the weapon system, there are still concerns about inadvertent weapons discharge due to control system or communication system malfunction. These concerns may be substantially reduced by using non-lethal weapons.

Many of these concerns, and general concerns about weapons employment in a chemical facility, could be further reduced by adding a redundant safety-interlock to the weapon’s control system. This interlock could prevent the weapon from being discharged in a number of pre-defined situations. ‘No Fire Zones’ could be programmed into the interlock to prevent weapons discharge in unsafe areas of the facility. A flammability sensor could be added to the platform to prevent discharge of a ‘fired’ weapon in a flammable environment.

A Future for Robotic Security

As the military continues to improve the sophistication of their robotic systems it becomes more likely that security robots will be deployed in the defense of high-risk chemical facilities. Not only does the sophistication increase, but the unit cost of these robotic systems will come down. Additionally, the number of experienced robotic operators that are veterans of robotic combat operations will increase.

It is likely that it will be these veterans that will be behind the companies that develop and start the deployment of security robots. With their government supplied education, practical experience, and security training they will be the natural leaders of the robotic security businesses of the future.

The Israel Army is procuring more unmanned ground vehicles for combat missions in border areas. (Memang rencana busuk sudah dijalankan oleh Israel, seperti yang terjadi di Gaza sekarang ini).

The Ground Forces Command has purchased ast least four UGVs for combat missions along the Gaza Strip and Israeli border with Lebanon. The platforms were identified as G-Nius, developed and produced by Israel’s Elbit Systems.

“We don’t need manned patrols along the border,” Elbit Systems president Joseph Ackerman said. “We could use UGVs.” [On Aug. 5, the Israel Air Force announced the deployment of the Sniper electro-optic reconnaissance system. Sniper, developed in Israel by several defense contractors, was said to enable air defense operators to track fighter-jets at a distance of more than 70 kilometers.]

US army in 2020

U.S. technologists have revealed that the country’s military has plans to have about 30 per cent of the Army comprised of robotic forces by approximately 2020.

Doug Few and Bill Smart of Washington University in St. Louis say that robots are increasingly taking over more soldier duties in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the U.

S. Army wants to make further additions to its robotic fleet.

They, however, also point out that the machines still need the human touch.

“When the military says ‘robot’ they mean everything from self-driving trucks up to what you would conventionally think of as a robot. You would more accurately call them autonomous systems rather than robots,” says Smart, assistant professor of computer science and engineering.

All of the Army’s robots are teleoperated, meaning there is someone operating the robot from a remote location, perhaps often with a joystick and a computer screen.

While this may seem like a caveat in plans to add robots to the military, it is actually very important to keep humans involved in the robotic operations.

“It’s a chain of command thing. You don’t want to give autonomy to a weapons delivery system. You want to have a human hit the button. You don’t want the robot to make the wrong decision. You want to have a human to make all of the important decisions,” says Smart.

The technologist duo says that researchers are not necessarily looking for intelligent decision-making in their robots. Instead, they are working to develop an improved, “intelligent” functioning of the robot.

“It’s oftentimes like the difference between the adverb and noun. You can act intelligently or you can be intelligent. I’m much more interested in the adverb for my robots,” says Few, a Ph.D. student who is interested in the delicate relationship between robot and human.

He says that there are many issues that may require “a graceful intervention” by humans, and these need to be thought of from the ground up.

“When I envision the future of robots, I always think of the Jetsons. George Jetson never sat down at a computer to task Rosie to clean the house. Somehow, they had this local exchange of information. So what we’ve been working on is how we can use the local environment rather than a computer as a tasking medium to the robot,” he says.

Few has incorporated a toy into robotic programming, and with the aid of a Wii controller, he capitalizes on natural human movements to communicate with the robot.

According to the researchers, focussing on a joystick and screen rather than carting around a heavy laptop would help soldiers in battle to stay alert, and engage in their surroundings while performing operations with the robot.

“We forget that when we’re controlling robots in the lab it’s really pretty safe and no one’s trying to kill us. But if you are in a war zone and you’re hunched over a laptop, that’s not a good place to be. You want to be able to use your eyes in one place and use your hand to control the robot without tying up all of your attention,” says Smart.

Devices like unmanned aerial vehicles, ground robots for explosives detection, and Packbots have already been inducted in the military.

“When I stood there and looked at that Packbot, I realized that if that robot hadn’t been there, it would have been some kid,” says Few. (ANI)

Bagaimana dunia di masa yang akan datang ? terutama teknologi militer menggunakan robot.

“”"Yang penting itu robot jangan menjadi mesin pembunuh manusia, seperti yang terjadi di GAZA saat ini”"” v**me

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Energi Listrik Tenaga Angin

Hari ini energi angin digunakan sebagai sumber pembangkit listrik.Berikut ini sekilas tentang sistem pembangkit listrik menggunakan tenaga angin.

Wind is called a renewable energy source because the wind will blow as long as the sun shines.

The History of Wind

Since ancient times, people have harnessed the winds energy. Over 5,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians used wind to sail ships on the Nile River. Later, people built windmills to grind wheat and other grains. The earliest known windmills were in Persia (Iran). These early windmills looked like large paddle wheels. Centuries later, the people of Holland improved the basic design of the windmill. They gave it propeller-type blades, still made with sails. Holland is famous for its windmills.

American colonists used windmills to grind wheat and corn, to pump water, and to cut wood at sawmills. As late as the 1920s, Americans used small windmills to generate electricity in rural areas without electric service. When power lines began to transport electricity to rural areas in the 1930s, local windmills were used less and less, though they can still be seen on some Western ranches.

The oil shortages of the 1970s changed the energy picture for the country and the world. It created an interest in alternative energy sources, paving the way for the re-entry of the windmill to generate electricity. In the early 1980s wind energy really took off in California, partly because of state policies that encouraged renewable energy sources. Support for wind development has since spread to other states, but California still produces more than twice as much wind energy as any other state.

The first offshore wind park in the United States is planned for an area off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts (read an article about the Cape Cod Wind Project).

HOW WIND MACHINES WORK

Like old fashioned windmills, today’s wind machines use blades to collect the wind’s kinetic energy. Windmills work because they slow down the speed of the wind. The wind flows over the airfoil shaped blades causing lift, like the effect on airplane wings, causing them to turn. The blades are connected to a drive shaft that turns an electric generator to produce electricity.

With the new wind machines, there is still the problem of what to do when the wind isn’t blowing. At those times, other types of power plants must be used to make electricity.

TYPES OF WIND MACHINES

There are two types of wind machines (turbines) used today based on the direction of the rotating shaft (axis): horizontal–axis wind machines and vertical-axis wind machines. The size of wind machines varies widely. Small turbines used to power a single home or business may have a capacity of less than 100 kilowatts. Some large commercial sized turbines may have a capacity of 5 million watts, or 5 megawatts. Larger turbines are often grouped together into wind farms that provide power to the electrical grid.

Most wind machines being used today are the horizontal-axis type. Horizontal-axis wind machines have blades like airplane propellers. A typical horizontal wind machine stands as tall as a 20-story building and has three blades that span 200 feet across. The largest wind machines in the world have blades longer than a football field! Wind machines stand tall and wide to capture more wind.

Vertical-axis

Vertical–axis wind machines have blades that go from top to bottom and the most common type (Darrieus wind turbine) looks like a giant two-bladed egg beaters. The type of vertical wind machine typically stands 100 feet tall and 50 feet wide. Vertical-axis wind machines make up only a very small percent of the wind machines used today.

The Wind Amplified Rotor Platform (WARP) is a different kind of wind system that is designed to be more efficient and use less land than wind machines in use today. The WARP does not use large blades; instead, it looks like a stack of wheel rims. Each module has a pair of small, high capacity turbines mounted to both of its concave wind amplifier module channel surfaces. The concave surfaces channel wind toward the turbines, amplifying wind speeds by 50 percent or more. Eneco, the company that designed WARP, plans to market the technology to power offshore oil platforms and wireless telecommunications systems.

WIND POWER PLANTS

Wind power plants, or wind farms as they are sometimes called, are clusters of wind machines used to produce electricity. A wind farm usually has dozens of wind machines scattered over a large area. The world’s largest wind farm, the Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center in Texas, has 421 wind turbines that generate enough electricity to power 230,000 homes per year.

Unlike power plants, many wind plants are not owned by public utility companies. Instead they are owned and operated by business people who sell the electricity produced on the wind farm to electric utilities. These private companies are known as Independent Power Producers.

Operating a wind power plant is not as simple as just building a windmill in a windy place. Wind plant owners must carefully plan where to locate their machines. One important thing to consider is how fast and how much the wind blows.

As a rule, wind speed increases with altitude and over open areas with no windbreaks. Good sites for wind plants are the tops of smooth, rounded hills, open plains or shorelines, and mountain gaps that produce wind funneling.

Wind speed varies throughout the country. It also varies from season to season. In Tehachapi, California, the wind blows more from April through October than it does in the winter. This is because of the extreme heating of the Mojave Desert during the summer months. The hot air over the desert rises, and the cooler, denser air above the Pacific Ocean rushes through the Tehachapi mountain pass to take its place. In a state like Montana, on the other hand, the wind blows more during the winter. Fortunately, these seasonal variations are a good match for the electricity demands of the regions. In California, people use more electricity during the summer for air conditioners. In Montana, people use more electricity during the winter months for heating.

WIND PRODUCTION

In 2005, wind machines in the United States generated a total of 17.8 billion kWh per year of electricity, enough to serve more than 1.6 million households. This is enough electricity to power a city the size of Chicago, but it is only a small fraction of the nation’s total electricity production, about 0.4 percent. The amount of electricity generated from wind has been growing fast in recent years, tripling since 1998.

New technologies have decreased the cost of producing electricity from wind, and growth in wind power has been encouraged by tax breaks for renewable energy and green pricing programs. Many utilities around the country offer green pricing options that allow customers the choice to pay more for electricity that comes from renewable sources.

Wind machines generate electricity in 25 different states in 2005. The states with the most wind production are California, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, and Oklahoma.

The United States ranks third in the world in wind power capacity, behind Germany and Spain and before India. Denmark ranks number five in the world in wind power capacity but generates 20 percent of its electricity from wind. Most of the wind power plants in the world are located in Europe and in the United States where government programs have helped support wind power development.

WIND AND THE ENVIRONMENT

In the 1970s, oil shortages pushed the development of alternative energy sources. In the 1990s, the push came from a renewed concern for the environment in response to scientific studies indicating potential changes to the global climate if the use of fossil fuels continues to increase. Wind energy is an economical power resource in many areas of the country. Wind is a clean fuel; wind farms produce no air or water pollution because no fuel is burned. Growing concern about emissions from fossil fuel generation, increased government support, and higher costs for fossil fuels (especially natural gas and coal) have helped wind power capacity in the United States grow substantially over the last 10 years.

The most serious environmental drawbacks to wind machines may be their negative effect on wild bird populations and the visual impact on the landscape. To some, the glistening blades of windmills on the horizon are an eyesore; to others, they’re a beautiful alternative to conventional power plants.

Sustainable Systems designs windmills for the future

Drive down the highway or look in parking lots and poles are everywhere, says Terry Sankar, an engineering doctoral candidate at Robert Morris University. Imagine each one as a little electrical power plant, quietly and unobtrusively spinning out clean energy from the wind.

Sankar’s Pittsburgh-based company, Sustainable Systems, has developed an innovative approach to harnessing wind power, a vertical axis windmill that touts low cost, increased safety and flexibility in size and use. Every Target, McDonalds, and Whole Foods could be energy independent through windmill technology, Sankar muses.

Most wind turbines are oriented on a horizontal axis, much like an airplane propeller. Sankar’s version is fixed up and down, similar to an ancient Persian design. It resembles a large egg beater and may be installed on existing poles, towers, rooftops, almost anywhere.

“It has become increasingly clear that wind holds the greatest potential for satisfying the region’s and nation’s need for clean and renewable energy,” notes Sankar’s advisor, Zbigniew Czajkiewicz, an engineering professor who heads the University’s Center for Applied Research in Engineering and Science. “There is keen interest from the energy users we’ve talked with in regards to the development and commercial availability of such systems.”

Sankar has received a $25,000 University Innovation Grant from Ben Franklin Technology Partners to test and refine his designs. The system should be commercially available within two years. The company is currently installing a 60-foot prototype at Seven Springs Resort in southwestern Pennsylvania, the ideal testing ground, capable of generating 100kw of electricity.

Floating Windmills

Wind energy is one of the fastest growing energy options today. However, windmills are not without their drawbacks. Land based and close offshore windmills can ruin the view and can be somewhat noisy, although modern versions are much quieter than the originals. As well, winds are not always reliable, blowing in fits and gusts rather than in a steady rhythm.

Now Live Science is reporting that designers have created floating windmills that can be anchored between 30 to a hundred miles from shore where they are not in the way and where winds are stronger and steadier. They are able to generate an average of 5 megawatts compared to 1.5 for onshore and 3.5 for close offshore setups.

Because they do need to be built on a solid foundation like conventional windmills, these babies can be built on shore for a fraction of the cost and then towed into place with tugboats. As well, they can be shifted around to meet changing energy requirements up and down the coast.

 

Obstruction of View, Light or Air

Tower of Superlatives Answers in the Wind

   

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Airbus A380

Sahabat pasti tahu dong apa itu Airbus A380?  Airbus A380 merupakan pesawat terbang penumpang terbesar saat ini yang ada di dunia. Gue pengen sharing sedikit nih mengenai Airbus A380.Airbus A380 dibuat oleh Airbus S.A.S (France) merupakan pesawat double decker, dengan 4 mesin airliner hingga bisa menerbangkan 800 orang penumpang dalam format density yang tinggi atau 555 orang dengan typical konfigurasi kelas tiga. Penerbangan pertama untuk  dimulai Maret 2005 dengan delivery dimulai 2006.

A380  diresmikan pertama dengan perayaan atau pesta yang mewah di Toulouse, France pada 18 January 2005. Dengan Manufacturer’s serial number (MSN) 001 dengan registrasi F-WWOW.

In a first step, the front and rear sections of the fuselage are loaded on an Airbus RORO ship, Ville de Bordeaux, in Hamburg, northern Germany, whence they are shipped to the United Kingdom. There the huge wings, which are manufactured at Filton in Bristol and Broughton in north Wales, are transported by barge to Mostyn docks, where the ship adds them to its cargo. In Saint-Nazaire, western France, the ship trades the fuselage sections from Hamburg for larger, assembled sections, some of which include the nose. The ship unloads in Bordeaux. Afterwards, the ship picks up the belly and tail sections in Cadiz, southern Spain, and delivers them to Bordeaux.From there, the A380 parts are transported by barge to Langon, and by road to Toulouse, where the A380s are assembled before being flown to Hamburg to be furnished and painted.

Pegen tahu pabrik pembuatan AIRBUS A380? Lihat aja videonya dibawah ini.

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 Sumber informasi lainnya bisa di cek di http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380

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Packaging Valley Di Jerman

Hai blogger… ketemu lagi nih. Apakabar semuanya? Semoga sehat selalu. Kita ngomongin apa yang enak ya? Oya… Gue pengen sedikit sharing mengenai perkembangan dunia engineering di Jerman yang merambah dunia industri sejak 50 atau 60 tahun yang lalu. Sebut saja Siemens, Boeing, Festo, Manferrostaal, ini salah satu perusahaan raksasa asal Jerman.. Dan pasti sahabat tahu perusahaan besar lainnya.

Sekarang kita sebut saja Packaging Valley Di Jerman. Tempat ini merupakan area industri yang di dalamnya terdiri dari banyak perusahaaan. Perusahaan didalamnya itu khusus menangan masalah sistem pengemasan (Packaging). Dari mulai buat makanan, minuman, obat-obatan, kimia dan lain sebagai.

Tanpa kita sadari salah satu produk makanan di super market yang biasa kita beli, mesinnya berasal dari sana. Semakin hari, bentuk kemasan makanan atau minuman yang ada di supermarket semakin berkembang seiring dengan berkembangnya mesin-mesin packaging tersebut.

Nah untuk tahu lebih jauh tentang Packaging Valley ini mendingan kita kunjungin deh situsnya. Klik DISINI!

Dengan mengetahui situs tersebut, semoga kita mengerti bahwa masih banyak sekali ketinggal dan kekurangan kita sebagai anak bangsa. Dunia engineering memang tak bisa dilepaskan dari semua sisi kehidupan kita. Mau nyangkul di sawah juga dah pake mesin. Ya… semoga bermanfaat deh cerita ini….

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Cara Gampang Mencari Buku

Hai blogger. Hari ini cuaca mendung di Jakarta. Mungkin sore atau malam ini turun hujan kembali. Ketimbang bengong mendingan kita baca buku. Dengan membaca kita jadi banyak tahu segala sesuatu yang kita inginkan. Ehm… gue sekarang pengen baca buku komputer nih. Tapi gak punya bukunya. Gimana Dapetin buku komputer di internet? Itulah pertanyaan ada. Banyak cara dapetin buku  di internet.

Wooww… disini lebih dari 1500 judul buku yang bisa di download.Jika tertarik Klik Disini! 

Cara lain untuk cari buku pake Google Book Search.

1. Kita kunjungin aja situs http://books.google.co.id/ seperti terlihat capture di bawah ini. trus klik deh Buku di bagian atas halaman google.

2. Terus ketik deh buku yang saya inginkan tadi, dengan kata kunci “Komputer”  maka secara cepat google nunjukin buku-buku komputer tersebut.

Nah, bagi sahabat blogger jika ingin mencari buku yang praktis bisa gunakan cara-cara ini.

Selain itu banyak situs-situs yang menyediakan buku gratis. Sangat cocok bagi sahabat yang seneng baca, atau yang lagi nyusun tugas akhir / skripsi. Jadi banyak menolong cara ini.

Jika anda ingin belajar engineering bisa deh kunjungi situs saya yang lain di http://belajarplc.co.nr

Selamat Mencoba.

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GPS + Smartcard Alat Pembayaran Tol di Korea Selatan

Wah ini bahasan kayanya menarik nih,… Selama pengalaman traveling di negara Korea Selatan ada beberapa alat yang dipasang di mobil sebagai alat navigasi bagi driver dan Smart Card untuk Tol.

Ini dia photonya sempat aku jepretttt….

1. GPS.

GPS singkatan dari Global Position Systems. Di negara-negara maju termasuk Korsel salah satunya GPS merupakan barang yang biasa anda jumpai di mobil-mobil pribadi atau taxi.

Check di sini untuk penjelasan detail mengenai GPS, Klik aja disini!

Fungsi sebagai alat navigasi bagi pengendara. Jika anda akan menuju suatu kota anda tinggal mencari kota tujuannya. Secara otomatis alat ini akan menuntun anda hingga ke tujuan. Hebatnya keakurasiaan GPS di korea ini bisa dibuktikan.

Ada satu pengalaman selama perjalanan, teman saya (driver yg baik, hehehe) gak tahu alamat teman yang akan di kunjunginya. Tetapi dia tahu no telp temannya itu. Dengan cepatnya dia menuju ke monitor GPS yang taouchscreen itu memasukan No. Telp rumah temannya itu… tak lama kemudian GPS tersebut langsung menunjukannya dan menuntun kita ke tempat tujuan.

Selama perjalanan panjang dari Icheon airport ke tempat tujuan kerjaku di kota kecil Geochang. Kita melalui jalan high way. Kira-kira setiap 3km atau 5km di jalan tol dipasang kamera control speed. Kamera tersebut berfungsi memantau kecepatan kendaraan yang melaju di jalan tol. Pengemudi mobil hendaknya tahu bahwa di jalan tol maximum kecepatan yang diperbolehkan 100km/jam. Tetapi kadang-kadang atau seringnya pengemudi melebihi batas kecepatan yang ditentukan.

Nah… dengan bantuan GPS secara langsung GPS akan memberi tahu bahwa 500m di depan kita ada kamera pemantau kecepatan. Jika kita melebihi batas kecepatan yang ditentukan GPS itu langsung memberi tahu dengan suara manusia…. ya bisa di ibaratkan ngomongnya gini “Mas-mas kurangi kecepatannya ada kamera di depan”…. hehehe… kira-kira begitu bunyi yang keluar dari GPS (red:.karena gue kagak ngarti bahasa korea… maklum). Jadinya si pengemudi aman deh.. gak kena sama pak Polisi, karena setiap melewati maksimum pasti GPSnya ngomong….

Hebatnya lagi GPS tersebut dilengkapi dengan TV, MP3 Player, Video Player (Multimedia). Trus suaranya bisa di sadap di radio FM mabil karena ada tunnernya. Pokoknya keren abis deh..

Trus.. untuk map yang ada di dalam GPS tersebut setiap hari ada update, untuk memperbaharui jika ada jalan atau gedung baru yang ada di seluruh korea selatan. Anda tinggal menuju situs provider di internet dan download deh….. Jadinya informasi yang ada di GPS jadi akurat dari hari ke hari…..

Boleh coba.

2. Smartcard untuk Tol

Nah yang satu ini juga lumayan keren. Smartcard ini berfungsi sebagai alat pembayaran di tol. Jika kita melewati gerbang tol gak usah anti ngambil tiket dan bayar. Tapi secara otomatis uang yang ada didalam smartcard tersebut akan di debet. Kita sebagai pengemudi pada saat melewati gerbang tol ada satu display yang menunjukan berapa saldo yang ada di smartcard kita.

Prinsipnya sama dengan voucher HP. Kalau abis ya harus di isi ulang.

Dengan alat ini kemacetan bisa di hindari. Pemanfaatan teknologi canggih saat ini di negara-negara yang bisa dikatakan maju sudah menjadi barang yang biasa.

Kapan di Indonesia teknologi ini mulai diterapkan ya?

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