Posts by Lindsay Farlow

Autonomous Vehicle Design Challenges

By Lindsay Farlow | Dec 11, 2013

If 90% of vehicles on the roads in the US were autonomous, fuel consumption would be reduced by 724 million gallons, 4.2 million accidents could be prevented, and 21,700 lives could be saved, accordin...

Nuvation Partners With Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles Research Laboratory

By Lindsay Farlow | Oct 10, 2013

As we mentioned previously, Nuvation Engineering has signed a 4-year research and development agreement with researchers from the University of Waterloo. The research will be conducted by the Waterloo...

5 Tips for Creating Effective Schematics

By Lindsay Farlow | Sep 23, 2013

Creating a great schematic is more than just producing a technically correct netlist. Ideally, your schematic should be organized in a way that’s easy for others to review and understand. Even someo...

Meet the Team: Oliver King-Smith

By Lindsay Farlow | Sep 13, 2013

After nearly 10 years with Nuvation, the list of things Oliver King-Smith is known for is pretty long: homemade wine, crazy colorful socks, his PhD in mathematics, a fondness for fine dining, having h...

DiscoFish and Burning Man 2013 Recap

By Lindsay Farlow | Sep 6, 2013

Last week marked another great year at Burning Man for DiscoFish, the Nuvation crew, and friends. For those unfamiliar with the event, it’s a week-long festival in Black Rock City, Nevada that celeb...

DiscoFish Drive-by-wire Design

By Lindsay Farlow | Aug 30, 2013

Previously, we wrote about DiscoFish’s autonomous driving capabilities. Once autonomous driving was up and running we decided to also implement drive-by-wire, so that a person could also drive the F...

Building the Ultimate Kegerator

By Lindsay Farlow | May 13, 2013

A few years ago, the Nuvation Silicon Valley office got a keg. After hours, employees could throw a few bucks in the money can and kick back and enjoy a cold brew on the patio with their coworkers. No...

Outrageous Engineering Challenge – Air Hockey Robot

By Lindsay Farlow | Feb 20, 2013

In honor of our 15th anniversary this year, we’re counting down some of the most outrageous engineering challenges that we’ve faced in our 15 years of electronic design services. Starting off is t...