Podcasts by The Engineering Edge
Professor Lucy Rogers is on location, finding out how every day technology is providing people with an engineering edge.
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S2 E6: Expansion Pack: Keeping Bees Buzzing from 2021-04-18T13:58:31
In this expansion pack for Episode 6 - The Everyday Tech...Keeping Bees Buzzing, we looked at hive monitoring and in this final episode of the series, Lucy shares how she built her own home temp...
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S2 E6: The Everyday Tech Keeping Bees Buzzing from 2021-04-11T14:06:53
In Episode 6 Lucy discovers how temperature sensors are helping fight the decline of one of nature’s most important pollinators. She talks to Broodminder founder Rich Morris about hive monitorin...
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S2 E5: Expansion Pack: The Everyday Tech Growing the Future of Food from 2021-04-04T13:44:49
In this expansion pack for Episode 5 - Lucy talks to (at the time of recording) Ocado’s Chief Technology Offer Paul Clarke about dark kitchens and the future of food production and distribution....
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S2 E5: The Everyday Tech Growing the Future of Food from 2021-03-28T13:39:14
In Episode 5 Lucy discovers how humidity and moisture sensors are helping to revolutionise the way we grow our food. She talks to Adam Waterman at LettUs Grow about aeroponic farms that can mana...
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S2 E4: Expansion Pack: The Everyday Tech students launched with NASA from 2021-03-21T14:46:29
The show that explores how everyday tech can be used in extraordinary ways. In this tongue in cheek expansion pack for Episode 4 - RFID tags, Lucy finds her lab going haywire when her RFID taggi...
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S2 E4: The Everyday Tech Students Have Launched with NASA from 2021-03-14T14:40:36
In Episode 4 Lucy discovers how students flew RF tags (as used in passes and security labels) into space to test a new way for satellites to communicate. She talks to mechanical engineer Julie C...
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S2 E3 Expansion Pack: Revealing Wildlife Secrets from 2021-03-07T15:04:06
The show that explores how everyday tech can be used in extraordinary ways. In this expansion pack for Episode 3 - Accelerometers, Lucy takes you behind the scenes on how she built a smart colla...
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S2 E3: The Everyday Tech Revealing Wildlife Secrets from 2021-02-28T14:40:18
In Episode 3 Lucy discovers how accelerometers are helping conservationists better understand animals in the wild. She talks to researcher Danielle Brown about why accelerometers are a game-chan...
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S2 E2: Expansion Pack: Lucy Builds a Navi-hat from 2021-02-21T14:29:22
The show that explores how everyday tech can be used in extraordinary ways. In this expansion pack to Episode 2 - Haptic Motors, Professor Lucy Rogers shares a step by step guide to how she buil...
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S2 E2: The Everyday Tech Giving Humans a Sixth Sense from 2021-02-14T14:55:03
In Episode 2 Lucy discovers how haptic motors are being used to give humans a sixth sense. She talks with feelSpace founder Susan Wache about the innovative Navibelt, Dario Madani about how as a...
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S2 E1 Expansion Pack: Jude Pullen Interview from 2021-02-07T15:52:56
In this expansion pack to Episode 1 - 3D Printers, Lucy talks to technologist and prototyping expert Jude Pullen (Big Life Fix, Great British Inventions with Sir David Jason) about the art of 3D pr...
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S2 E1: The Everyday Tech that could take us to the Moon from 2021-02-01T02:25:10
The Engineering Edge Podcast returns to explores how everyday tech can be used in extraordinary ways. In S2 E1 Lucy discovers how 3D printers could transform the future of space exploration. She ta...
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S1 E4: Lucy Goes Into Space and Time from 2020-02-02T10:53:55
How can everyday tech give space-based atomic clocks... The Engineering Edge?
Professor Lucy Rogers PhD is heading to Surrey Space Centre, one of the world leaders for low-cost technology and a...
S1 E3: Lucy Goes Nuclear from 2020-01-05T20:17:07
How can everyday tech give nuclear fusion energy... The Engineering Edge?
Professor Lucy Rogers PhD is heading to the UK's National Research Laboratory for Fusion Energy, the Culham Centre, in ...
S1 E2: Lucy Goes Animatronic from 2019-12-01T19:40:36
How can everyday tech give the UK's oldest theme park... The Engineering Edge?
Professor Lucy Rogers PhD is heading to Blackgang Chine, the UK's oldest theme park. Named after a coastal ravine,...
S1 E1: Lucy Goes Drone Racing from 2019-11-04T04:00
How can everyday tech give drone pilots...The Engineering Edge?
Professor Lucy Rogers PhD is heading to the UK Drone Racing Open to witness some of Europe’s top pilots compete to be crowned the...