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Aviation – the invisible highway
Looks like a great documentary – then again, I’m biased towards all things aviation 🙂 Aviation: The Invisible Highway (Trailer #1) from Aviation: The Invisible Highway on Vimeo.
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Long term considerations when building or buying an Imaging System
Years ago I worked for a major imaging camera supplier. During one meeting with a team of engineers, we were discussing some really cool aspects of a camera and driver suite for that camera. The engineers were showing us “kinetic accumulation” modes of capturing pictures, sort of an “HDR on chip” technique. My question to…
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10 Years of Cassini’s Look at Saturn
Some beautiful pictures of Saturn here. As a child my great uncle Dan, who worked on the fuel mixture system for the STS series shuttle, showed me saturn through a small telescope. I will never forget looking at those rings, and my wonder at how such a device could present such an image, funny how much…
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Rail to Rail +5 / -5 Power Supply from USB
When working with amplifiers, it’s crucial to keep as much noise out of your power supply as possible. Most of the time, your power noise will end up being amplified or will at least show up in your resulting signal as pattern background noise. To make things harder still, many signals are 0V based, and…
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Hilarious Correlation examples
I’ve always loved the “global warming vs. piracy” graph, but this is a whole new level of funny. Click the pic for more examples! -Austin
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Metamorph MetaMobile App provides remote view and control of your scope from an iDevice
I was talking with a long time friend from the MetaMorph team and was surprised to learn they have had an app-based control package available! I haven’t tried it yet, but the next time I get my hands on a meta-controlled rig I’m definitely gonna play with this. I think this would be great for…
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Airbus E-Fan is a step in the right direction for GA Electric Airplanes
Just saw this video from Airbus, which shows off a ducted fan electric training plane. Personally, I’m wondering what happened to the Electric Cessna 172 project from a few years back. That project was bought and then went dark…
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Due Diligence for the average News Reader
This is a great explanation of why most news regarding evil dangerous “chemicals” or miracle substances are half-baked. I wish they’d play this as a PSA on evening broadcast TV instead of the usual stuff… A great example of the whole correlation != causation is the pirate vs. global warming graph 🙂
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Tetris at the Philadelphia Cira Centre
I’ve always enjoyed a good tetris battle, so watching this made me think of what could be done on a series of buildings…
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Arduino Timer Libraries
Found these great timer libraries for a far greater level of control over Arduino PWM functionality. Very cool! TimerOne & TimerThree Libraries by PJRC