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July 2006



Shed Construction Project Part 1

Sunday, 30 July 2006 5:57 A GMT-06
After much denial, we've come to the conclusion that we need a shed. Our garage is too full of kids toys, gardening supplies, rummage sale items, etc and the situation does not look like it change for many years. I really hate the typical
Category: Home Projects
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Android Robots and Uncanny Valley

Saturday, 29 July 2006 5:59 A GMT-06
Scientists in Japan are working on human like robots (Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University).  There is a theory in android robotics that as robots increase in human like appearance, people's emotional response to them becomes more positive
Category: Robotics

Strange ESD Phenomena

Thursday, 27 July 2006 8:45 P GMT-06
Most digital engineers witness some strange things throughout their experiences.  One typical example is that of a board that mysteriously resets for no obvious reason.  One possible cause of this is ESD.  Normally when you think of ES
Category: Digital System Architecture

Asynchronous Design

Thursday, 20 July 2006 8:43 P GMT-06
For my entire career as a digital engineer, the synchronous design approach has been stressed and followed on all designs I've been involved with. The main advantage is that it simplifies the design of digital systems because everything h
Category: Digital System Architecture

Making a USB flash drive bootable

Wednesday, 12 July 2006 8:17 P GMT-06
Today I needed to boot an ETX module to a DOS prompt. The system had no floppy or CD ROM drive, but it did have a USB port. I've always wondered how to make a USB disk bootable. My google search on how to do it revealed many hits, b
Category: Computers

Nanotechnology Venture Capitalists

Tuesday, 11 July 2006 8:57 P GMT-06
One way to decide which nanotechnology companies would be good investments is to see if successfuly venture capitalists are investing in them. The purpose of this blog post is to keep track of venture capitalists in the nanotechnology field.&nb
Category: Nanotechnology Investing

Thermal Cooling in Digital Systems

Friday, 7 July 2006 11:44 P GMT-06
I was reading recently about some of the special problems of cooling electronic devices in space, where there is no air.  In most digital systems, the primary way of cooling the digital ICs is to use convection.  Heat is transferred from th
Category: Digital System Architecture

Home Entertainment Center Hookup

Tuesday, 4 July 2006 8:40 P GMT-06
It almost requires an engineering degree to hook up your home entertainment components nowadays (ie TV, stereo, DVD player, VCR, cable box, etc.).  I'm not sure how people without an engineering degree manage it actually.  I have a few basi
Category: Home Projects
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