Jumping for joy: June cartoon caption contest opens

6/7/2011 10:32 PM EDT

The boss got sick and won't be coming in this week!

6/8/2011 1:00 AM EDT

The person got promotion in his domain.

6/8/2011 1:24 AM EDT

Testing the new ESD compliant trampolines.

6/8/2011 2:24 AM EDT

Ball is in your court!!!

6/8/2011 6:35 AM EDT

Whadd'ya wanna debounce for??
Bouncing is FUN!!!

6/8/2011 9:37 AM EDT

I don't...care what...you think...Victor...I get...my best...ideas...this way!!

6/8/2011 11:44 AM EDT

Amplitude modulation isn't as difficult as you think.

6/8/2011 11:53 AM EDT

Just a few more, Bob. Almost got this pulse generator calibrated.

6/8/2011 1:11 PM EDT

I'm switching on the anti-grav drive in 5...4...3...2...1

6/8/2011 3:32 PM EDT

After weeks of unsuccessful brainstorming trying to figure out how to take the product to the next level, Jerry decided to try a different approach.

6/8/2011 3:38 PM EDT

Freaky Sie hopping...

6/8/2011 3:47 PM EDT

Flubber Pad II prototype monitored as it delivers an unexpected series of uniform highs.

6/8/2011 8:12 PM EDT

Well I'm stumped! For some reason, this motion detector circuit is seeing a much larger reflection every 9th or 10th bounce.

6/8/2011 10:13 PM EDT

Where the heck is all this ground bounce coming from?

6/8/2011 10:36 PM EDT

Go Green! I can generate signals with different modulations without these Analyzers and CROs.

6/9/2011 6:50 AM EDT

100X performance improvement ..my manager is still not believing .. he is out there checking !!

6/9/2011 11:35 AM EDT

Just a little more the battery is almost charged.

6/9/2011 12:02 PM EDT

Out of work, Joe Engineer bounced higher as he dreamed of working in a lab once again!

6/9/2011 1:20 PM EDT

When I said that frequency hopping was a requirement for this project, that's not exactly what I meant...

6/9/2011 2:01 PM EDT

The intern's demo of a half-sine wave was at least creative.

6/9/2011 2:05 PM EDT

Typical day at work, engineers doing the work, management hopping from decision to decision.

6/9/2011 4:16 PM EDT

"I just love qualifying new accelerometer ICs!"

6/9/2011 4:20 PM EDT

Shortly after installing a cappuccino machine, the company had to install a trampoline.

6/9/2011 7:08 PM EDT

Ground bounce? I thought you said Clown bounce!

6/9/2011 9:33 PM EDT

I am the candle on the cake of electronic circuits thats controlled remotely.

6/10/2011 2:07 AM EDT

It is hardware bug.... (thank god not my software)

6/10/2011 5:34 AM EDT

I bounced the idea that Manager and I swap places for a day and I cant believe that he took it seriously :)

6/10/2011 7:52 AM EDT

Dave is know for Springing into his work

6/10/2011 2:21 PM EDT

Trust me. I'm your boss. This will fix your problem. This is how we avoided the judgement day.

6/10/2011 3:09 PM EDT

This will be a bigger source of alternative energy than wind power.

6/10/2011 3:14 PM EDT

Bob, that's not what I meant by finding simple harmonic motion!

6/10/2011 3:17 PM EDT

This is how a sine wave looks like !!

6/10/2011 3:26 PM EDT

Sorry, Fred, you must have sat in the nanobot ant simulators.

6/10/2011 3:35 PM EDT

Are you sure we can calibrate my circuit this way?

6/10/2011 3:45 PM EDT

C'mon Jim, you've got to hit 100 hz or I'm bringin' in the new guy.

6/10/2011 4:57 PM EDT

Ray finally figured out how to handle micro managers. He taught them how to help with debouncing.

6/10/2011 5:00 PM EDT

As soon as the boss finished saying "No more clowning around in the lab" Bill's passive-aggressive nature took over, once again!!

6/10/2011 5:06 PM EDT

Hay! It's MY way to test accelerometers!

6/10/2011 5:07 PM EDT

Management can't hit a moving target!

6/10/2011 10:47 PM EDT

And I had to get stuck with the boss's son as an intern.

6/11/2011 12:16 AM EDT

Fred, thanks for helping with our energy harvesting experiments. Hey, how are you on a pogo stick?

6/11/2011 12:38 AM EDT

Nice full wave rectifier waveform! Now give me a square wave with a 50% duty cycle.

6/11/2011 7:29 AM EDT

Time to test the debouncing circuit.

6/11/2011 5:27 PM EDT

Ted was flummoxed, this was the first time in 30 years that his patent de-bounce circuit had failed, perhaps there was something in this software fad after all.

6/11/2011 7:04 PM EDT

Ok Fred, keep going just like that. Next, you'll feel a slight tingling. Going on-grid, 3,2,1...

6/12/2011 4:02 AM EDT

jump jump jump your aura is now reaching the orbits of pluto and neptune try a little more jump out of the solar sytem ☼ ☼ ☼ ♂ joy

6/12/2011 9:07 AM EDT

Oh joy, not even Smart Joe can figure this out!

6/12/2011 4:09 PM EDT

Engineers at play: Harmonic Analysis of Trampoline

6/12/2011 9:12 PM EDT

Damit Fred, relax, your beta waves are increasing the sensitivity of interactive biofeedback program.



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6/13/2011 6:24 AM EDT

Bounce Faster, I need 1 Mhz!

6/13/2011 6:25 AM EDT

Just one more bounce and Jack entered the mega-hurts region.

6/13/2011 6:27 AM EDT

This picture shows the state of the accelerometer just before Dale brought down the house.

6/13/2011 6:28 AM EDT

I'm trying to work! I told you not to fling your sneakers up there!

6/13/2011 6:30 AM EDT

In this diagram we see the watchdog circuit monitoring the line frequency as it bounces around.

6/13/2011 9:22 AM EDT

Bill and George are testing their prototype for a piezoelectric trampoline.

6/13/2011 9:23 AM EDT

Green energy generation has become way too ridiculous.

6/13/2011 12:26 PM EDT

Leave it to marketing to specify seismic energy harvesting.

6/13/2011 12:27 PM EDT

The Boss was right, Jack doesn't have the balls for this, at least not anymore...

6/13/2011 12:28 PM EDT

Yeah, just count the dents in the ceiling tile!

6/13/2011 12:29 PM EDT

Are you trying for escape velocity or just a pink slip?

6/14/2011 7:30 PM EDT

- Did you check the frequency hopping function?
- Yeah. It works great !

6/15/2011 2:16 PM EDT

NOW we're having fun debugging!

6/17/2011 4:06 PM EDT

Wow Fred, you bouncing up and down with the transmitter in your pocked works a lot better than the fading simulator we bought.

6/17/2011 5:01 PM EDT

You really shouldn't have ask him "How high?" when your manager said "JUMP!"

6/17/2011 7:19 PM EDT

What you said truly and provably resonated with me.

6/17/2011 7:44 PM EDT

NASA, with it's revised budget, has been busy working on the shuttle replacement project.

6/18/2011 12:05 PM EDT

James, I'm showing some odd clipping on the large-scale electrostatic transducer... James?

6/20/2011 7:00 AM EDT

I vote for gmorita's antigravitiy caption :-)

6/20/2011 10:52 AM EDT

Jim got his excersize by jumping to conclusions, while Bob prefered an evidence based approach. (I'll leave it to the reader to assign dept representation...)

6/21/2011 2:38 AM EDT

"Bob, you're doing a great job! I heard a rumor that Corporate has approved the purchase of our klystron tube. It shouldn't take more that a week to arrive. You can stop after I install it."

6/21/2011 3:15 AM EDT

Hi Jumpee jump a little more reach the escape velocity to break free the earth's gravitational force and fly!

6/21/2011 10:53 AM EDT

During "Take Your Kid To Work" day, Bill decided to let his son try the trampoline before rather than after the taco lunch.

6/22/2011 2:10 AM EDT

For the last time, it is NOT Frequently hopping! It's Frequency hopping!!

6/22/2011 8:39 AM EDT

I expected the new employee fitness center to be bigger than this.

6/22/2011 5:50 PM EDT

High Tech Vibration Lab testing...

6/23/2011 8:46 AM EDT

Keep going Bob(you sales weasel), I think I've almost got the ground noise pin pointed. (now how do YOU like jumping through hoops :P :P :P)

6/23/2011 2:39 PM EDT

No more tangled cords with the universal energy harvesting cell phone charging accessory.

6/24/2011 4:58 AM EDT

Only 5 more minutes and I get the company "Energizer Bunny" award this month!!!

6/24/2011 3:17 PM EDT

Ok Bob, a little to your left. No, your other left.

6/24/2011 4:26 PM EDT

Nice joke Bob... the only bounce up in pay for this year!

6/24/2011 4:28 PM EDT

So that's how Jump Start works in a spacecraft computer...

6/24/2011 6:39 PM EDT

Uncle Sam is watching!

6/25/2011 5:11 PM EDT

The PCB design team reminded Bob they needed space on the board for a short jumper.

6/26/2011 9:29 PM EDT

Bob . . stop playing with our new vibration testing station.

6/28/2011 2:49 PM EDT

Keep bouncin', that scope probe cap ain't anywhere on the bench or the floor, so it's gotta be on you somewhere. Dang, I hate losing those costly little things!