How an Alfa Romeo Owner’s Coffee Spill Turned Into a $700 Repair Bill

A spilled coffee into the center console of a 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia killed its infotainment controller and led to a roughly ...
IEEE

An Inexpensive Wiegand-Sensor-Based Rotary Encoder Without Rotating Magnets for Use in Electrical Drives

Abstract: This article introduces an inexpensive Wiegand-sensor-based rotary encoder that avoids rotating magnets and is suitable for electrical-drive applications. So far, Wiegand-sensor-based ...
Automation

Electromate Announces Availability of the Absolute Micro Rotary Encoder From Netzer

Electromate has added the Netzer Precision VLP-13 to its catalog. TORONTO, Canada, Dec. 10, 2025 – Electromate has added the Netzer Precision VLP-13 to its catalog—a miniature, absolute rotary encoder ...
IEEE

CrackHAM: A Novel Automatic Crack Detection Network Based on U-Net for Asphalt Pavement

Abstract: The maintenance of pavements takes considerable time and poses a significant task, especially when it comes to detecting cracks at the pixel level. Due to the complexity of pavement ...
GitHub

SED: A Simple Encoder-Decoder for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

We propose an encoder-decoder for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation comprising a hierarchical encoder-based cost map generation and a gradual fusion decoder. We introduce a category early ...
GitHub

Nextion Based DCC++EX Controller

What started out as a project to modify Dave Bodnar's original Nextion Throttle while trying to learn "C" and a bit of "C++" has turned out to be a Controller for both DCC++ and DCC-EX Command ...