Weird and Wacky Engineering
What do Bob Dylan, Woodstock, and Wavy Gravy have to do with Design West?
Clive Maxfield
3/25/2013 5:46 PM EDT
Sometimes the way the world works leaves me gasping with astonishment and delight.
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Max the Magnificent
You are correct about the Oakland A's -- Stacy also told me how this all came about -- I could have ...
Blast from the past – Practical Wireless mags circa 1972
Clive Maxfield
3/8/2013 5:23 PM EST
Ooooh, this takes me back. I just opened the first one from January 1972. There's no way to artificially replicate that 41-year-old magazine smell.
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Asad.Asif
Agreed! Wish there were digital copies (scanned or otherwise) of old electronics related magazines.
In space no one can hear you scream… or can they?
Clive Maxfield
3/1/2013 10:14 AM EST
An experiment that will change the scientific world forever – a plan so audacious that not even NASA has attempted it!
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Max the Magnificent
LOL
VHF, VHF, wherefore art thou VHF?
Clive Maxfield
2/26/2013 1:17 PM EST
I want a small box that can connect via WiFi to the Internet on one side and stream live television (in the form of a VHF signal) out of the other side.
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AustinTim
Max, Did the digital converter work? If you want one of those anything inputs to VHF I've got ...
Clive Maxfield
2/22/2013 10:35 AM EST
You would not believe the wonderful little retro portable TV I just discovered at Mock Electronics.
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Max the Magnificent
They do? They never mentioned that (the little rascals) ... but to be fair I never asked :-)
Clive Maxfield
2/21/2013 12:12 PM EST
So many product test videos show the products only in a good light, so the fact that some of these videos show the products failing puts an interesting spin on things.
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Max the Magnificent
It would have to be a really big blender for a notepad (more like a cement mixer :-)
Clive Maxfield
2/14/2013 1:06 PM EST
My old chum Jack Olsen just sent me a really interesting image titled "The Periodic Table of Beer Styles".
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TOEKNEE
Google "Periodic Table of Beer Styles" and see what comes up in images, rather good I thought.
What were they thinking: Desktops and laptops in decline – duh!
Brian Bailey
2/8/2013 11:00 AM EST
Why are so many people surprised, or think they are being smart by predicting the decline of the desktop. Its all very simple...
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gpotter
The trend of Desktop PC to Phone to tablet is very much related to the cost per CPU (now incredibly ...
NanoMeasure 2013 puts the focus on the small stuff
Kristin Lewotsky
2/7/2013 9:27 AM EST
Nanometrology conference will include papers on characterizing graphene and nano-enabled photovoltaics.
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Video: It's bigger on the inside!
Clive Maxfield
1/14/2013 3:32 PM EST
Now I want to start playing with this augmented reality software myself…
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Max the Magnificent
LOL