Engineering Pop Culture!
Wow – I am “tickled pink” as they say!
Clive Maxfield
Being “tickled pink” refers to enjoyment great enough to make the recipient glow with pleasure – which certainly describes my current state of being…
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Tales from the entrepreneurial trenches: Dermott Lynch - Part2
Brian Bailey
This is the first in a new series of articles that talk about the lessons learned by entrepreneurs in the course of their success and failure…
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Real-time Android: real possibility, really really hard to do - or just plain impossible?
Bernard Cole
Embedded developers are taking a close look at using the Linux-based Android mobile device platform in real-time deterministic apps. But is it realistic? If so, what will it take? Or is this just another tantalizing but impractical dream?
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sandy7874
with a billion dollar support from google, I see a future . Android is powerful not becuase of linux ...
Design Contests & Competitions
April Caption Contest: Vote for the winner
Naomi Price
Ben Hutt, mechanical engineer and blogger on iGEN, has narrowed 83 captions down to the top 8 ... now it's your turn to vote (right here!)
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Hacker: Define Yourself
Naomi Price
Just what is a hacker, anyway? Can you define this elusive term in a way that clarifies while also intriguing the kids?
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IDontUseTheForumSoWhyAmIForcedToMakeANickname
As defined by a hacker:
hacker == innovator
One who can take an existing design and reverse ...
May 2012 Caption Contest: Elvis
Naomi Price
The King is in the building and we're all shook up...
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Don Swaab
He just stands there all day, and admires his image on the webcam.
The Engineering Life--Around the Web
The most beautiful words in the English Language are...
Clive Maxfield
This is the sort of thing that, once you see it, you can’t fail to have your own thoughts and suggestions...
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Max the Magnificent
YES!
The fascination of Max
Clive Maxfield
In which a reader asks ... a lot of questions pertaining to the "Magnificence of Max"
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David Ashton
Well fixing Geiger counters and Atmospheric monitors is a lot more fun than some of the other things ...
Is this a map of dark matter or the "fools gold" equivalent?
Clive Maxfield
Like Winnie the Pooh, I am a bear of simple brain, and many things confuse and confound me. One such topic is that of dark matter.
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Max the Magnificent
I was met Dr Kaku a couple of years ago. As a gift I gave him a copy of my book "Bebop to the ...
Engineer’s Bookshelf
Book Review: "The Age of Wonder" by Richard Holmes
"How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science"
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Max the Magnificent
Hi Aubrey -- thanks for a great review -- you beat me to it -- I read this book last yea rbut never ...
Book Review: Shakespeare – The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Clive Maxfield
This is an interesting and informative book that had me rolling on the floor laughing…
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Max the Magnificent
Oh -- was that you -- all of England was abuzz talking about the strange tourist with the weird ...
Book Review: "Degrees Kelvin" by David Lindley
Before reading this book, I had not realised what an affect Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) had had on my world today as an electrical engineer.
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antedeluvian
The link to Max's column is wrong. It should ...
Social Mania
Plastic doesn't pollute, people do
Sylvie Barak
Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but a tradeshow held last week in Italy aimed to mold a different opinion of the material in people's minds.
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prabhakar_deosthali
I agree! and I am also excited to learn that one kg of plastic can generate energy equivalent of ...
New companies at DAC for the first time in 2012
Brian Bailey
This is the first of a series of blogs preparing you for DAC this year. This one lists the new companies exhibiting for the first time...
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garydpdx
Hi, Brian! A quick clarification for Space Codesign ... #417 is our demo suite, our exhibit will be ...
Agilent takes best in scope
Janine Love
It's been a big year for scopes, and Agilent tops it off with recognition from Frost & Sullivan.
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t.alex
We also need automated testing API.
Engineering Investigations
Multi-Platform Integration
Balloons, they seem like a simple product ... that’s what I use to think before I was asked to build a machine to make foil balloons.
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Mike_653
Yes, I totally agree with all your comments. On reflection of your comments I would like to clarify ...
Controller PCB problem solved
Problem with a controller PCB causes significant yield loss at an off-shore drive assembly plant and Ravinder is sent in to investigate...
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Sanjib.Acharya
Yes, such a small die shrink should not matter. So I guess it was a pre-existing quality issue, ...
Wire we fixing this???
Dwight Bues
Dwight has a story from his academic years and work done at a company that "built just about anything."
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jkdrum
After that you should have told someone you found the wire stretcher.
