{"id":470874,"date":"2018-03-06T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-group&#038;p=470874"},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:44:48","slug":"hardware-lab","status":"publish","type":"msr-group","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/hardware-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background- card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/03\/RasberryPi2x1600x600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"raspberry pi 2\" style=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/03\/RasberryPi2x1600x600.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/03\/RasberryPi2x1600x600-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/03\/RasberryPi2x1600x600-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/03\/RasberryPi2x1600x600-1024x384.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 align-self-center\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-redmond\/\" class=\"icon-link icon-link--reverse mb-2\" data-bi-cN=\"Return to Microsoft Research Lab - Redmond\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-glyph glyph-chevron-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReturn to Microsoft Research Lab &#8211; Redmond\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading h2\" id=\"hardware-lab\">Hardware Lab<\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/central-engineering\/\">Central Engineering group<\/a>, the Hardware Lab provides electro-mechanical engineering and prototyping development to&nbsp;support Microsoft&nbsp;Research priorities. The following are examples of a few of our projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"project-premonition\">Project Premonition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/project-premonition\/\">Project Premonition<\/a> aims to detect pathogens before they cause outbreaks. It uses the animal pathogen data from mosquitoes that are captured in autonomous mosquito traps. Our team designed V1 \u2013 V3 prototypes for the mosquito traps as well as designed and built the environmental mosquito chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"microsoft-soundscape\">Microsoft Soundscape<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/product\/soundscape\/\">Microsoft Soundscape<\/a> is a research project that explores the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people, particularly those with blindness or low vision, to build a richer awareness of their surroundings. We helped design and build a remote-control circuit board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"spatial-audio\">Spatial Audio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/spatial-audio\/\">Spatial Audio<\/a> is a project about creating a 3D audio experience using headphones. We designed and manufactured three 64 channel spherical microphone arrays with integrated 360 video cameras and 360-degree audio.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the Central Engineering group, the hardware lab provides electrical, mechanical, firmware, and software engineering and prototyping development to support Microsoft Research priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":476640,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_group_start":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13552],"msr-group-type":[243694],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-470874","msr-group","type-msr-group","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-hardware-devices","msr-group-type-group","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_group_start":"","msr_detailed_description":"","msr_further_details":"","msr_hero_images":[],"msr_research_lab":[199565],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"John Romualdez","user_id":32375,"people_section":"Core team","alias":"johnrom"},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Teresa LaScala","user_id":475962,"people_section":"Core team","alias":""},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Lex Story","user_id":475968,"people_section":"Core team","alias":""}],"related-publications":[],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-projects":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"tab-content":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/470874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-group"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/470874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020672,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group\/470874\/revisions\/1020672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=470874"},{"taxonomy":"msr-group-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-group-type?post=470874"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=470874"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=470874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}