Our stand at Aeroforum

After an hot car trip to Rome and some tweaking, our stand at the Aeroforum is finally up. All the devices we brought with us are running live and fine. We hope that a delamination detection setup on a stiffed CFRP panel will raise interests.

Aeroforum

It's with great pleasure and proudness that we announce that National Instrument invited Intelligent Structure to the Aerospace & Defense Forum 2015 (link) that is going to be held in Rome on June 11. We will be present in the exhibition area with our equipment to give a demonstraion of the innovation we bring in this field. Come and visit us!

Collaboration with ST

We are proud to announce that our startup has started collaborating with ST Microelectronics. We are going to test their new high voltage ultrasound pulster in order to optimize its performance for SHM applications. In the photo above you can see both the ST demoboard and our tiny +/-100V pulser module.

Intelligent Structures' Take Off team in the top 8

Our student's group on safer planes scored top 8 in Airbus competion! Vote for Team TakeOff @Airbus http://goo.gl/DQOpoc  #flyyourideas

Masterclass: Lean Start-up by Bernhard Dol

Today and tomorrow we're attending a masterclass with Bernhard Dol (link). It's a great opportunity to perfect our business model canvas and business plan by applying lean start-up tools. Let's hope for the best!

New sensor circuits arrived

Yesterday the new sensor board (left), node (top) and gateway (right) PCB arrived from ITEAD. We also completed the final assembly of our new miniature ultrasound pulser. Despite its size, that tiny guy in the middle is capable to generate 2W continuous pulses.

First dummy sensor cut

Great news! This afternoon we successfully laser cut our first dummy sensor from the piezo film. Although we had to custom build a pulse width modulator to set the right laser power and find the right focal distance, we managed to obtain a clean, thin cut without overheating the piezoelectric material.