I like NANOG (http://www.nanog.org) for network engineering topics. It's geared towards large service provider networks, not so much enterprise/small business, but still quite informative and great for networking of the social variety as well.

This project appears to have computer vision for parts alignment, which is a HUGE deal for a pick-and-place. You need your machine to know if a component is oriented improperly in the reel, and to provide positive feedback on board position by referencing fiducials for accurate placement of fine-pitch components. Other pick-and-place projects I've seen in the past have been just standard 3-axis CNC gantries with a vacuum pickup, the addition of CV means it potentially can truly compete with the high-cost units.

Baron Ünderbheit?

I've bought a number of Feit Electric CFLs from Costco, and get at least a few years of regular use out of them. However, whenever I've bought the same brand from various local hardware stores (both mom-n-pop and big brand stores) I've had them fail within a few months. I'm not sure what's up with that, but that's my experience. I have yet to try any LED bulbs due to the up-front cost and the long life I'm getting out of my CFLs, and I have no use cases where dimming is necessary.

At work I have a HiFiMeDIY Sabre Tiny USB DAC ($30) as my work laptop's internal audio is full of noise (hissing that changes with system activity).
At home, my gaming machine uses its onboard audio interface, but sends digital audio out via SP/DIF to my home theater receiver for its DAC and amplifier.
I even have an external sound interface for ham radio use, a Tigertronics SignaLink USB that's just an external ADC/DAC with some filtering and isolation which interfaces with my radio for digital modes (such as PSK31 or RTTY).

His book, Hacking the Xbox, is now available for free: http://www.nostarch.com/xboxfr... The chapter on the methods he used to actually bypass the system's boot security was fascinating.

I saw this at Maker Faire, he's using an on-screen display generator to produce menus and output that you feed into a video input channel on the DVR, and it intercepts the DVR's RS-485 bus (used for pan-tilt-zoom control of cameras) to receive command input from the user. Pan down is parsed as next menu item down, pan right is "enter", etc. It's quite nifty. The menus are set up for individual X-10 or other commands, and you can even set up multi-event macros.

C-band requires a large dish (10-12 feet in diameter), Ku is much smaller (around 3 feet).

Salary, health benefits, equipment, continuing training...

Make sure to read the CVC definition of a speed trap before you assume what you consider a "speed trap" is illegal: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vc...

I have a pair of Koss headphones that are just like you describe, I'm a big fan of them. They are quite comfortable and sound pretty good too. http://www.headphone.com/headphones/koss-ksc-75.php

I found them in about two minutes: http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Hardware http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/IMUHardware Scroll to the bottom of each page, you'll find schematics and Eagle files.

They're using the DIYDrones ArduPilot, the image in the article shows the ArduPilot Mission Planner software. For a few hundred dollars you can turn an RC aircraft into an autonomous craft, it's a very nifty project.

I too am a fan of root beer. A friend makes his own, but not from the pre-made syrups. He steeps sassafras root (carcinogens be damned!), mint leaves, vanilla, and other tasty ingredients, then filters and carbonates it and lets it rest for a while. My wife refers to it as lick-a-tree root beer due to the low sugar content, but I enjoy the taste.

Homeworld was a space-based RTS, not a flight sim. It was fun though. Freespace 2 has a lot of community work going into it to update the models and effects. There are also several total conversion projects including a Babylon 5 conversion and a Wing Commander conversion. (Oh, how I miss Wing Commander...