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bare-metal ZYNQ
Assume I'm a pointy-haired boss trying to help one of my guys. I think that... The Xilinx ZYNQ (FPGA+ARM on a chip) has a hard boot loader. It figures out what the boot device is (serial flash, SD...
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testing smd capacitors with the chinese clip
The 47 pF SMD reads 45.230 pF, after zeroing the meter with the clip attached, hand free measurements. The clip fits nicely with 10 pF also close... It is the small ones I care about. The spring in...
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Mystery NXP IC
Can anyone identify the mystery NXP IC? Can't seem to find anything out about from the usual searches: The application is a "Razer Panthera" arcade-style controller for the Sony Playstation/PC.
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OTC hearing aids in the US
I saw a little blurb in an AARP magazine about a new law approving over the counter hearing aids, purchasable with no audiologist's prescription. I hadn't heard of this before so after the recent...
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O/T: why knot?
Recently I reviewed my old Boy Scout knots, and could only remember four. Contrary to Winston Churchill's quip, it appears whiskey has taken more out me, than I've taken out of whiskey - So I'm...
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OT New car humor.
Fun read. GH
 
The insects are coming
The insects are coming: not bad Canon A470 full zoom hold in hand from a meter or so away. Cobra33 merupakan salah satu situs judi slot online gacor terlengkap dan terbesar di indonesia Cobra33...
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data compression algorithm
In the vein of suggestions made by Martin Brown, David Eather, et al a while back, this is idea for a lossy compressor/decompressor designed to compress 10 bits of greyscale image data down to 8 in a...
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Ann: Southampton,UK: Use of Raspberry Pi for low cost air quality monitoring, public talk
Tuesday 18 June 2019 Florentin Bulot of Southampton University: Low-cost sensors for monitoring air-borne particulate matter, using Raspberry Pi . The 6 St Denys monitors , including live data,...
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Large-ish area flat photodiode for NIR (1092 nm)
Hi all, TL;DR: Any suggestions for a photodiode which presumably InGaAs), - and fits into a 4 mm deep (along direction of incidence) slot including connections? critical here. Ge might be problematic...
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DropBox raises price by 20%
My DropBox fee is going up by 20%, to $120/yr, increasing storage from 1000GB to 2000GB. But I only use 2.4 GB, just over the free limit. Don't want to commingle all my files on DropBox; where they...
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Do I want a cellphone tower on my property?
AT&T wants to install a new tower in this area, offered me $800/month for a spot to put it. It may be "safe" at the beginning, upgraded to questionable new technology through the years, they want a...
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precision low cost isolation amplifier
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com...
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Peak Silicon?
There may be another kind of Moore's Law: we just don't need all those transistors.
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Better power transistors. (?)
Science daily had an article about a big jump in power transistors. Article: It has been assumed that we are approaching the performance limits of silicon-based power electronics. Researchers have now...
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