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OT: Please clap...
OT: Please clap... Bwahahahahahaha! ROTFLMAO >:-} ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | STV, Queen...
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Poor man's UART
Is it possible to build a "poor man's UART" to look for a specific byte in a low-ish speed current-loop serial bitstream? Like use a serial->parallel shift register with a fast clock and a bit of...
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Video: Skybuck's DreamPC from 2006 boots up strangely
Hello, This video on youtube shows the strange procedure I have to follow to boot up my computer lately: This strange problem started occuring after I accidently put the computer i nto sleep mode, and...
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Quasi-OT: How to double your CPU power. for free
Windows was using 50% of my Win7 CPU, idling, plus 1G of RAM. So I ran and stopped Windows Update. Shazaam. I really need to switch to Linux. Cheers, James Arthur
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Meat thermometer, what kind of sensor is in there?
Just had a wireless meat thermometer suddenly fail in the middle of a brewing session (Belgian Tripel, can't wait ...) [*]. The indicated temp shot up about 50F. Resetting the uC, display and so on...
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DARPA AMEBA
Various nations' militaries have used ULF and VLF to communicate with their submarines, but the usual practice is to utilize very large antennae. DARPA is experimenting with much smaller, portable...
 
Bipolar transistor bias question
I have a switching application where a single bipolar transistor might be used. The AC input is about 300mV and the transistor needs about 700 mV to switch on. My idea is to construct a voltage...
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Best LP Filter Topology for Minimal Phase Shift
I would like to use a 35Hz low pass filter on the 1Vpp output of an instrumentation amp such as the LT1167. Generally speaking, what configuration of active filter produces the least amount of phase...
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IQ modulator
Impressive that they make an on-chip network that provides 90 degrees of phase shift (and unity gain?) over a 320:1 frequency range? The specs are kinda fuzzy, in the RF datasheet tradition. I need to...
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OT: Yee! Haa!
OT: Yee! Haa! ROTFLMAO >:-} ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142 Skype:...
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What's this Tesla Power Innovator Program?
I've been dumped to this site a few times this month: WTF is it? Maybe it's something which introduces a lot of phase shift to the power your drawing through your meter which might keep some meters...
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OT: Hilarious new comedy show on TV...
OT: Hilarious new comedy show on TV... "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Fox Democrats, nutty electors, and ignorant professors come on and spout such nonsense that it keeps me rolling on the floor laughing...
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dropbox reconsidered
A couple of months ago, Dropbox sent me an email announcing that they would no longer support XP. I got about a week of warning. It was a huge pain to adjust to that. Now they have announced that the...
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Wave digital filters
This .pdf is pretty interesting, with respect to modeling analog circuits digitally without using numerical ODE methods to solve the system of equations a la SPICE. The emphasis isn't on numerical...
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Battery "shelf life" in harsh conditions
I keep our bug-out bags in the garage (not worthy of indoor storage as the idea is NOT to need them). Garage can see a pretty wide range of temperature extremes (though I've not actually measured *at*...
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