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Monthly Archives: February 2011
In Defense of Steve Jobs
10 Unusual Things I Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs Why do I get the feeling that this alleged ‘tribute’ is actually a hit piece in disguise? Steve Jobs is dying and is rumored to have only weeks to live, and … Continue reading
High Moon
Way back when, I wrote a science fiction novelette called “High Moon,” about teleoperated lunar mining robots in Wild Old West Cosplay. It appeared in the May 2005 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, the longest-running print magazine … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Backwards Transistors
I’ve made a video correction to my video about a PC to arduino to toy crane interface. The second video is called The Mystery of the Backwards Transistors. Anyhow, if you missed it, here is the first video: And here … Continue reading
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Transistor Follies
My electrical engineering education at the University of Washington back in the late 1970s was long on theory and short on hands on experience. Hence it wasn’t until recently, when I started to fool around with electronics, that I needed … Continue reading
PC to arduino to toy crane
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St. Helens quakes move under the caldera
The Daily News Online, which serves the lower Columbia River region in the south of Washington State, reports on the recent St. Helens volcano earthquake swarm of this past week, and concludes: The quakes are occurring along a fault known … Continue reading
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Electronic Schematics in Sketchup
Sure, your electronics graphics program can make 2D schematics. But can you do this? “Why would I ever want to do that?” you ask. Well, say that you’re putting together a presentation and want to hi-lite specific parts of the … Continue reading
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Tagged electronics, electronics schematics, good old sang, google sketchup, schematics, sketchup
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Mount Saint Helens Seismic Data Visualization
This is an attempt to visualize data from recent seismic activity around Mt. Saint Helens. Nothing fancy, I simply used Google Sketchup and imported the quake map off the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network page for around 2PM Thursday Feb 17, … Continue reading
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The Volcano Beside Me
As a native of the Seattle region, I have often found it disconcerting to hear about killer weather, of tornadoes, hurricanes, cold snaps, and heat waves that leave death tolls in their wake. All we have to complain about around … Continue reading
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Why Microsoft Could Die Within Five Years
I was just watching a slide show presentation about the new Windows Phone 7. The effort looks competent. But that’s not enough to keep Microsoft from dying. Whether it’s fair or not, people hate Microsoft. In order to overcome that … Continue reading
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