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What were they thinking: patent trolling patent

It is amazing what is covered in some patents and this one is just totally mind boggling…

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How It Was: Fiddling and twiddling with the TV controls

In the not-so-distant past you had to constantly fiddle and twiddle with your television's controls to keep a reasonable picture on the screen...

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Jeremy Taylor was good....didn't know that SM toured with him, that would have been good. He did a ...

The passion

Will the enormous contributions Baby Boom engineers have made to humanity carry forward to new generations?

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Every generation has its own set of doer's. What changes is the medium in which they innovate. ...

When technology keeps you waiting

New bus information displays installed in preparation for the Summer Olympics in Weymouth had to be removed because they were too noisy!

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What's a good "real engineer" question?

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

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My favourite test for techs is a simple diagram of 4-20mA loop between two boxes. One containing the ...

Good Grief… Not again!

I’m starting to feel distinctly silly, because yet another electronics hobby project has failed to perform as expected…

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I just tuned my old AM radio to the static between stations and... ...Elvis says (a) stop talking ...

How It Was: Seeing my first color television

When I was a young lad, I don't think I was even aware that such a beast as a color television existed…

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South Africa didn't have TV at all till 1976! Zimbabwe had B&W TV quite early, but didn't get colour ...

How It Was: Watching the test card on TV

In the days of yore, the television stations would broadcast programs for only a few hours a day – the rest of the time the "test card" reigned ...

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Wonderfully nostalgic :-)

For those who don't think science is exciting...

In 1927 the world’s longest-continuously-running scientific experiment was kicked off, which means this little rascal has now been running for 85 ...

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Now that I think about it, Kelvin may have invented "The Slunky" ;-)

Looking for a present for your significant other?

I don’t know about you, but as the years go by it seems to be getting harder and harder to know what to buy as a present for my wife.

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Yep. So I gotta get rid of them somewhere...and where better than here?

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The passion    Brian Fuller
Will the enormous contributions Baby Boom engineers have made to humanity carry forward to new generations?
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Every generation has its own set of doer's. What changes is the medium in which they innovate. ...

What's a good "real engineer" question?    Bill Schweber
There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes
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My favourite test for techs is a simple diagram of 4-20mA loop between two boxes. One containing the ...

Good Grief… Not again!    Clive Maxfield
I’m starting to feel distinctly silly, because yet another electronics hobby project has failed to perform as expected…
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I just tuned my old AM radio to the static between stations and... ...Elvis says (a) stop talking ...

The Engineering Life--Around the Web

When technology keeps you waiting    Colin Holland
New bus information displays installed in preparation for the Summer Olympics in Weymouth had to be removed because they were too noisy!
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How It Was: Watching the test card on TV    Clive Maxfield
In the days of yore, the television stations would broadcast programs for only a few hours a day – the rest of the time the "test card" reigned supreme…
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Wonderfully nostalgic :-)

Looking for a present for your significant other?    Clive Maxfield
I don’t know about you, but as the years go by it seems to be getting harder and harder to know what to buy as a present for my wife.
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Yep. So I gotta get rid of them somewhere...and where better than here?

Design Contests & Competitions

February 2012 caption contest: Unicycle    Naomi Price
Too many balls in the air? Barely keeping his balance? Posit a reason for our friend's frenetic entrance!
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Our HR dept has come up with a new interview technique for project managers.

Plight of the Tester    Naomi Price
A December caption winner has been picked and the challenge has been tossed out to suggest a better method of narrowing the caption choices. Chime in!
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I really enjoy it too -- I still find it hard to believe that part of my job is looking through ...

Vote for the best caption of December’s record 206 entries    Naomi Price
Turns out that a record number of entries means twice the voting choices -- pick from 10, cast your vote!
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Just a tad harsh there, don't ya think?!

Engineering Investigations

Controller PCB problem solved
Problem with a controller PCB causes significant yield loss at an off-shore drive assembly plant and Ravinder is sent in to investigate...
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If the manufacturer has not informed the change to a die-shrink part, I guess the chip ...

Wire we fixing this???    Dwight Bues
Dwight has a story from his academic years and work done at a company that "built just about anything."
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The title "Wire we fixing this?" reminds me of the cable manufacturer guy who told his wife he had ...

HMI squeeze    john linstrom
Problems with the human-machine interface on a Korean drilling platform have the users stumped ... until they call in the engineer, of course.
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I recently used fibre on a hi-rel project (had a simple light/dark relay logoc link) and was ...

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CES post-mortem: Fear and loathing of the show    David Benjamin
So, it’s the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and I’m stuck in a nerd queue long enough to wrap twice around the Death Planet in Star Wars IV:A New Hope.
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Actually, the CES attracts a very broad range of demographics. You would be surprised to see a ...

High-tech conference promises help with design    Janine Love
DesignCon 2012 starts January 30 and ends February 2nd in the Santa Clara Convention Center.
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Webinar: Power Issues for Chip and Board    Brian Bailey
This is going to be a great webinar about power, power integrity and everything associated with power. Sign up now and don’t miss this one!
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Steve Appleton in retrospect
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