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Aerial view of a miniature city with self-driving cars.
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BYU offers 'crash course' in self-driving car technology
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
December 19, 2019
A BYU electrical engineering professor has found an innovative and inexpensive way to teach students how to program self-driving cars. Instead of building a full-scale autonomous vehicle, DJ Lee used RC cars and an indoor mini course to give students a crash course in the vocabulary and tech behind autonomous vehicles.
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Researchers create way to significantly extend Wi-Fi range for smart-home devices
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 22, 2019
Computer engineers have created a protocol that significantly extends the distance a Wi-Fi-enabled device can send and receive signals.
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Secret to lab-on-a-chip breakthrough: matte black nail polish
By Jayne Edwards
March 04, 2019
Unlikely solution comes from Ph.D. student who also moonlights as a standup comedian
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NSF asks BYU profs to build new receiver for one of world's largest radio telescopes
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
August 06, 2018
Phased array feed will increase the field of view by more than five times
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BYU researchers make flexible glass for tiny medical devices
March 23, 2017
Brigham Young University researchers have developed new glass technology that could add a new level of flexibility to the microscopic world of medical devices.

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BYU-created A.I.-powered foosball table goes head to head with humans
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 24, 2016
Computer engineering students at BYU spent this past semester creating a robotic, vision-controlled foosball table with the objective to beat a human foosball player. The project was a great success. Only problem? The A.I. is a too good.

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BYU electrical engineers light up ballroom dancers
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
April 04, 2012
Professor Aaron Hawkins and a team of electrical engineering students and faculty have created fully-functioning, eye-catching light suits that flash to music.

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