brad | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 09 2007 | electronics, microcontroller, led, circuits, diyDotted from Mike. Today's super-efficient LEDs (lots of light output per short, limited power pulse) & faster MCUs make this a very practical alternative. Cost is still an issue: efficient LEDs are much more expensive than extra MCU pins, the alternative may be a dim and/or flickering display.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2008 | paia, diy, electronic assembly, electronics
The first time I've seen PC board assembly handled like PC board fabrication: quick-turn, fixed-price, etc.
Advanced Assembly :: PCB Assembly | Printed Circuit Board Assemblies | Electronic Assembly
Quoted: Advanced Assembly provides quick turn PCB assembly services for printed circuit board prototypes and low volume productions. Electronic assembly by engineers ensures quality printed circuit board assemblies to your specs.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 13 2008 | DIY, paia, pcb, electronics
Quoted: CircuitPeople's free online Gerber file viewer. View, Share and Order Printed Circuit Boards.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 23 2008 | paia, diy, electronics
The bobbin (back) thread is conductive, top thread is not. Conductive thread pads are added & LEDs are soldered to thread pads.
Quoted: it works! ;)
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 23 2008 | diy, paia, electronics
SImilar to methods used for touch-drum projects.
Quoted: Sew together conductive fabric and anti-static plastic to make your own fabric pressure sensor!
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 15 2008 | audio, music, paia, electronics, speakers
Literally fantastic.
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- brad | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 10 2008 | DIY, electronics
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 21 2008 | video, electronics, news, paia
Quoted: Catching up with the Flip, one of the most popular electronics products of the last year.
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So why, exactly, does a machine that does so little earn so much love from the people who buy it?Funny story: years ago, Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm, decided to develop the Graffiti handwriting-recognition alphabet for the original touch-screen Pilot. Since no technology can recognize everyone's handwriting, he reasoned, he'd design a special block-letter alphabet that gives you 100 percent accuracy -- if you form your letters his way.
His employees thought it was a terrible idea. Make customers relearn the alphabet?
But Hawkins, a brain scientist, knew something about people: if you're successful at something the first time you try, you fall instantly in love with it. And sure enough: people fell in love the first time they wrote on a Pilot with the special alphabet and saw their letters turn into perfectly typed text.
That's how it is with devices like the Flip. They're so simple, mastery is immediate, and so is your sense of pride and happiness.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 11 2008 | electronics, LEDs
Visible amounts of light from nanoamperes of power. Special fabrication structure to focus light reduces side scattering.
Quoted: The Tyndall National Institute in Cork is developing micro LEDs that operate from tiny amounts of power.
ShareViewed: 15 Times - brad | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2007 | video, technology, electronics
Parasitic power source.
Quoted: the camera obtains power by using the magnetic field generated by the AC source (45-100kHz) in the fluorescent light
ShareViewed: 1 Time - brad | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 13 2007 | electronics, paper, power, science
Physorg.com always has a wide variety of interesting one-page articles, even though most of them are essentially press releases.
Quoted: A sample of the new nanocomposite paper developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Infused with carbon nanotubes, the paper can be used to create ultra-thin, flexible batteries and energy storage devices for next-generation electronics and implantable medical equipment
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