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Comment Re:The tag says it all (Score 1) 164

by bobp0303 on Sunday December 27, 2009 @05:19PM (#30565636) Attached to: Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist?

Back in the 1980s we did everything on the live network at Cable & Wireless -- of course, the company no longer exists in the United States, but I'm sure there's no connection there. I remember chewing out the Vice President big-time -- didn't get fired, but didn't change anything either...

Comment Pursue or develop new projects (Score 1) 319

by bobp0303 on Wednesday January 23, 2008 @02:53PM (#22156424) Attached to: Down Time At Work — What Do You Do?

Currently researching an Arduino-based 'cruise control' for my manual transmission car using a stepper motor instead of the usual vacuum system. -- gives me something different to think about when I'm not writing document manipulation code.

System Integration Leads to MegaFunction Gadgets 104

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday June 07, 2006 @07:48PM from the wooo-megafunction dept.

nanotrends writes "The IEEE Spectrum is running a piece entitled 'Moore's Law Meets Its Match', about the system-on-package (SOP) approach to technology. The (SOP) approach combines Integrated Circuits (ICs) with micrometer-scale thin-film versions of discrete components, and it embeds everything in a new type of package so small that eventually handhelds will become anything from multi-to megafunction devices. This integration is actually developing at a rate faster than Moore's law." From the article: "SOP technology represents a radically different approach to systems. It shrinks bulky circuit boards with their many components and makes them nearly disappear. In effect, SOP sets up a new law for system integration. It holds that as the components shrink and the boards all but disappear, the component density will double every year or so, and the number of system functions in an SOP package will increase in the same proportion."

Homebrewed Robot Exoskeleton In Alaska 202

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 22, 2004 @05:42PM from the droids-you're-looking-for dept.

museumpeace writes "CNET has an article about a robotic exoskeleton ginned up by tinkerer from Alaska There are a few cool pictures. The audacity of Mr. Owens project, if you believe the article, compares to the efforts of the old Home Brew Computer Club when compared to the work of GE or Toyota. Inspiration here comes more from sci-fi and video games than from industrial competition. The article is a good roundup of MECHA related developments, some of which sprang from DARPA money, so I am glad at least a few of my tax dollars are having some real geek fun."

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