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Old-timey design from not too long ago
The Yamaha TX81Z, circa 1986: Big transformer, linear regulators, two-sided board, bunch of DIPs. Looks like the power switch is on the left at the back, and they've routed some long piece of metal...
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Elon Musk
Is an amazing guy. He went to Stanford for a Ph.D in physics but dropped out after two days to start Zip2 where he made his first millions. He then leveraged his economics degree to found X.com which...
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OT: revisitng the social cost of CO2 emissions
From the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It's a trifle comical. One of the more predictable costs of global warming is sea level rise. There's about 10 metres of sea level rise...
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analog failures
My experience is that we find a lot of bugs and documentation problems with the digital parts of mixed-signal chips. Devices Threatened By Analog Content? With few measurable methods to assess analog...
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Top Science Rule
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Eudora Email Problems
I don't typically have any trouble with Eudora... it just works. But once in a while the handshake with the server will stop working. I end up having to contact my web hosting provider and we change...
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gumdrop source
The web site is still a tad flakey. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
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OT: Coming soon to America
heres what happens when you import a violent foreign culture into a peaceful native one...
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How to increase the volume of a metronome?
Greetings, Comments are sought on additional circuitry to increase the speaker volume of the circuit shown between the lines. Comments on circuit simplifications are also sought. (Maybe a 555 with a...
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Long term stability of matched resistors?
If I select metal foil resistors with 1% tolerance so that they match to 0.1% can I expect that the matching keeps stable for a longer time or will the values drift sooner or later to their 1%...
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Driving Helmholtz Coils - Best Practice
The following questions are with regard to driving two coils arranged in a Helmholtz configuration. By convention, is a bipolar or unipolar signal applied? It would appear the former would have the...
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The "Experts" are up to their old tricks again
Lying assholes.
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OT: Beer, as it was in the old days ...
In the really *old* days.
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OT: Winter Volts
Sometimes it's set up just right:
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Window Heater
I sit directly under a window much of the time (don't suggest I move, there just isn't another practical option). When it is cold the window has a draft that is downright brutal. I plugged the window...
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