Imaging, Microscopy and More

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…

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

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…

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…    

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 🙂  

I’ve always enjoyed a good tetris battle, so watching this made me think of what could be done on a series of buildings…  

Found these great timer libraries for a far greater level of control over Arduino PWM functionality. Very cool! TimerOne & TimerThree Libraries by PJRC      

This monday I had a chance to take a few shots of the moon as we caused an eclipse. You can see a bit of the “blood moon” effect as well. The shooting conditions were OK, high altitude stratus obscured the view, but it was viewable! My photography setup was on a small telescope and…

I think everything shown here happens on every conference call I’ve ever been on!

For those on the west coast USA, this will begin just before 10PM, and conditions should be perfect (clear skies, dark, early enough to watch and not miss sleep!) – I’ll take pics and post what I get!