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Energy Efficiency Tricks to Stop Your Energy Bill from Haunting You
October 22, 2012 12:30 pm | by Energy Savers Blog | Comments
Power up
October 22, 2012 9:36 am | by M. Simon | CommentsAs the weeks and months go by I am going to be doing a number of hands-on projects. OSH Park will be making boards for those projects available for those of you who want to build something. But it does no good to build something if you don't have power to power it.
Sharing with sunstone
October 18, 2012 6:03 pm | by Screaming Circuits | CommentsSharing is what our partner Sunstone Circuits would like today - sharing your stories. We've been partners with Sunstone Circuits for a very long time. When we purchase boards turn-key, we go to them first. They even build a fair number of the boards that we don't personally order.
Preparing for the wrong catastrophe
October 17, 2012 9:26 am | by M. Simon | CommentsI was excited by a report at ECN saying that the world matched the hottest September temperature again this past September. Well that got me to thinking. CO2 is still rising and hot temperatures are only being matched? Doesn't the theory run - more CO2 makes the climate hotter? What happened?
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 for Reprogramming Cells to be Pluripotent
October 17, 2012 1:46 am | by Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog | CommentsThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.” The prize goes jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon, Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, UK and Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto … Continue reading →
F-35 to make Hollywood debut in Superman flick
October 16, 2012 5:32 pm | by Jason Lomberg, Technical Editor | CommentsAccording to Wired, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — the oft-delayed, oft-maligned, “backbone of America’s tactical aviation fleet” — is set to make its big-screen debut in the Superman reboot, Man of Steel. To be sure, this won’t be the first time the JSF has appeared onscreen. A computer-generated F-35 battled The Hulk in this summer’s blockbuster hit, The Avengers.
Fight Fall Allergies and Save Energy by Checking Your HVAC System
October 15, 2012 3:19 pm | by Energy Savers Blog | Comments
Filling the gap
October 15, 2012 1:53 pm | by M. Simon | CommentsGraphene has been getting a lot of press lately touting it as the electronics material of the future. It is a strong single-layer material with high electron mobility. All good things for a semiconductor material.But single-layer graphene lacks something very important for a semiconductor material: a band gap.
It (.3 mm) finally happened
October 12, 2012 6:27 pm | by Screaming Circuits | CommentsBack in January of 2012, I wrote about the possibility of 0.3 mm pitch BGAs being used here and there. I predicted that in a year, we'd see some 0.3 mm pitch BGAs showing up. I was about three month's off. Almost to the day. I delivered a session at PCBWest last month and asked if anyone had used a part with that pitch yet.
Computer-generated art that doesn't look computer-generated
October 10, 2012 10:09 am | by M. Simon | CommentsI went to a city wide art show this last weekend and ran into the most marvelous artists who does computer generated art that doesn't look like computer generated art - at least not the generic stuff you so often see. His name is Barry Reithmeier. He has a feel for the medium. He uses a tool called Bryce which is currently available for free.
2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka
October 10, 2012 7:44 am | by Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog | CommentsThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. Lefkowitz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA and Brian K. Kobilka, Stanford University School … Continue reading →
Program Your Thermostat for Fall and Winter Savings
October 9, 2012 4:17 pm | by Energy Savers Blog | CommentsMissing Mars probes
October 8, 2012 11:05 am | by Screaming Circuits | CommentsBack in ancient times when multi-legged beasts ruled the earth, there were a lot more standards. Or maybe there were just fewer total things resulting in fewer total variations, which looks like more standards. In any case, if you got...
