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Raspberry Pi 2, Camera Shy
It seems some camera flashes can cause Raspberry Pi 2 to crash. Just an interesting effect. Mikek
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OT Openoffice
Hi all, We're getting a new home computer, and I'm thinking of ditching Microsoft Office and trying Openoffice. So I'm looking for any experiences. I think the biggest use will be my kids having to do...
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Does Fairchild make this MOSFET?
While browsing the Chinese site I saw MOSFET FQPF20N60 offered by a number of sellers. It has the Fairchild logo on it but I can't find any information about it at the Fairchild site or at any of the...
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OT: Latest scam
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Kelvin SMD connection
Linear Tech recommends the following sense-resistor footprint in the LTC1760 datasheet: | | .--. .---' '---. | | | | | .-------------. | __| |/////////////| | __ |/////////////| | | |-------------| |...
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home battery
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
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golden ratio new formula
Hi, (reposting this from another thread) I came across this: It shows the formula for the golden ratio: (1+sqrt(5))/2 The formula I made is: (-x+sqrt((x*x+4)))/2 and their formula for the golden ratio...
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OK. You're right. FINE. Autorouting sucks (but KiCad is pretty nice)
I recently decided that Eagle was just getting too expensive (I'm stuck on version 4, and they're up to 7 or some such), and KiCad was starting to look viable. So I decided that for my next project...
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Temperature sensor + cooler
Hi. I need to design one PCB that will be used for temperature monitoring on production machine. Basically if should do just two simple tasks. 1.) if the temperature is to high --> start cooler ( vent...
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Anybody have have 'practical' experience working in 'broadband' microwave? 1 GHz thru 200 GHz, or even up to 300 GHz?
My experience is DC to 18 GHZ, with a little foray up through 22 GHz. Because of the bandwidth, suspect all has to be 'non-waveguide' operations. I need some really esoteric performance here, so...
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OT: multibody gravity simulation idea
Hi, (reposting this from For calculating gravity in software for a multibody system, one method is to do a gravity calculation between each pair of bodies per timestep, so for a large number of masses...
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About Audiophoolery At It's Finest !
Doesn't someone have to be dumb enough to buy that to support the place that sells it ? Damn, I guss that old ocmmon sense just does not apply anymore. Lessee, fovea is a macula, a... Fuck all that,...
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OT: golden ratio
Hi, I was curious about the golden ratio phi 0.61803398875 and its inverse 1.61803398875 after reading a new story that came out about this number being possibly detected in certain star brightness...
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BK precision 5492B
Any one here have this animal? Thoughts? After looking at some 5 1/2 digit meters , this is the only one I see that is 100ppm. Keysights(Agilent) are 120ppm. Cheers
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Convenient source of FR4 core for protos
More thicknesses than you'll find at Mouser or Digikey. I needed something pretty thin. And so easy/quick to cart and check out.
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