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Nuts & Volts Magazine
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5/16/2012 1:32:15 PM
Seeing more and more 3D Printers coming out of the workshops. Here is a real awesome 3D Printer called "B9Creator". With a KickStarter goal of $50K, it has already exceeded $132K with 132 Backers and 26 days remaining!
"DIY 3D Printers based upon the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) concept simply can not match the higher resol
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EDN
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5/16/2012 12:28:01 PM
Productivity is related to the way in which we can model something and reliably go from that model to an implementation that meets all of the design goals. In the digital world, we have managed to...
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EDN
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5/14/2012 9:46:04 AM
In a press release dated March 28, 2012, Frost & Sullivan named Agilent Technologies its 2011 Company of the Year for oscilloscopes. Agilent made some significant introductions, the 90000 X-series...
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EDN
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5/16/2012 9:15:42 AM
At T&MW, we’re always looking for ways to bring you the information that can best help you do your job. To do that, we need your input. We’ve put together a survey that asks things such...
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EDN
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5/14/2012 8:06:26 AM
One of the biggest frustrations - especially for smaller companies that can’t really afford a full-time compliance engineer…let alone the EMC measurement facilities - is how to get a...
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EDN
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5/16/2012 8:21:10 AM
As mentioned in my prior post, I plan to leverage iFixit’s maintenance resources (documentation and video) whenever my girlfriend’s iPhone 3GS’s embedded battery becomes sufficiently...
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EDN
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5/13/2012 8:55:44 PM
In my last blog post I summarized the advantages of downsized instrumentation. More portable, more flexible, higher performance, and lower overall cost were all advantages depending on the...
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Electronic Products
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5/16/2012 7:39:37 AM
Many of us have seen the YouTube video where a woman, innocently walking and texting, falls into a large fountain at a mall, completely unaware. The video was very popular a while back, and while some found it humorous in a Three Stooges sort of way, it actually highlights a growing trend of accidents that [...]
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EDN
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5/13/2012 2:32:49 PM
Professor R.D. Middlebrook, professor of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology showed young engineers how to increase their productivity by using design-oriented analysis to...
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EDN
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5/15/2012 9:22:02 PM
Philips was showing off a 100W LED replacement bulb at LightFair last week, which joins the ranks of candidates from GE and Osram Sylvania. Although Philips wasn’t talking about production...
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Nuts & Volts Magazine
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5/15/2012 2:14:32 PM
Nick Poole from SparkFun shows off his project called "TurnKey", a rotary keyboard he built for a servo tutorial. Why anyone would need one of these is beyond us, but it sure does make for a cool project! The video is a great explanation of what you can do with a hacked servo.
[Source] SparkFun "TurnKey"
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EDN
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5/11/2012 4:20:06 PM
Aargh Mates, Chinese piracy has moved into the world of technical standards. I recently became aware of the site, www.e-standard.org, when the subject was initially brought up by Lauren Crane,...
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EDN
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5/15/2012 12:12:59 PM
A recent conversation with my girlfriend reminded me of a longstanding “beef” I’ve had with a major consumer electronics supplier. Although I realize I’m a poor case study of “voting...
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Network Computing
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5/11/2012 11:00:00 AM
Interop Las Vegas 2012 is over. It was a good show -- and I'm not saying that because my company, UBM Techweb, runs it as well as Network Computing. I enjoy going to Interop -- I've been to 30 (two a year for 15 years), I run into a number of people I know, and I get to meet many more. Some have become good friends and colleagues. Attendance for t
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Electronic Products
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5/15/2012 11:32:28 AM
By Christina Nickolas A new report from Yole Développement predicts that the number of wafer processed with DRIE will see 5x growth over 2011 – 2017, see figure below. Originally used for MEMS, the Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) is a structuration process which enables achieving etch depths of 100s of micrometers with almost vertical sidewalls wi
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EDN
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5/14/2012 11:09:03 AM
Having discussed handheld device display ppi (pixels per inch) in some depth in my prior writeup, thereby giving (at least near-term) closure to one of the topics I raised in the preceding post, I...
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