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Show HN: I wrote a book on practical electronics design(designingelectronics.com)
97 points by blueintegral 5y ago|14 comments
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by blueintegral 6y ago
I'm not in the car industry, but I am in the electronics industry and I have definitely felt the chip shortage. Some of my parts just aren't available, and lead times are 3-4 months. Seems to be the result of production stopping a
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Moving fast in hardware: how the iPod shipped in 6 months(hscott.net)
2 points by blueintegral 6y ago|0 comments
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by blueintegral 6y ago
And that's where the term "tape out" comes from, and the term is still used to this day (although mostly just in IC design).
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Barnacle Ventures – A barnacle on the hull of progress(barnacle.vc)
1 points by blueintegral 6y ago|1 comments
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by blueintegral 7y ago
Am I the only one who can smell these pages as I look at them?
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by blueintegral 7y ago
The data itself isn't 60 GHz, you're just modulating it onto a 60 GHz carrier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation
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A 60 GHz phased array for $10(hscott.net)
252 points by blueintegral 7y ago|101 comments
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How to Create Wealth(hscott.net)
54 points by blueintegral 7y ago|6 comments
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by blueintegral 7y ago
You can order trinitite from United Nuclear. I stuck some in an HPGe and was able to learn some interesting things: https://www.hscott.net/analyzing-trinitite-a-radioactive-pie...
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by blueintegral 8y ago
This is really exciting. I've thought about building a datapath on an FPGA that uses partial reconfiguration to synthesize new hardware blocks based on the math being doing at a particular instant, and it sounds like DARPA wants to do
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by blueintegral 8y ago
Correction: their last day is tomorrow, April 8th.
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Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?
272 points by blueintegral 8y ago|212 comments
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by blueintegral 9y ago
While this page is mostly about sound waves, here's a great talk using similar tools to explain RF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGr_Z04SKs&t=12m31s Here's the interactive slides to play with: http:/
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Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse(lensrentals.com)
599 points by blueintegral 9y ago|153 comments
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by blueintegral 9y ago
There's no evidence that nonionizing radiation like microwaves can cause cancer. I think that was probably more likely due to the fact that everyone back then smoked about 4 packs a day.
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3D-printed antenna radiation patterns in color [video](youtube.com)
68 points by blueintegral 9y ago|19 comments
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by blueintegral 9y ago
Now what if we add an Uber-like component to this and let people share/carpool together to reduce the number of cars above and below ground? Instead of tires that wear out, we could use steel on rails! Aaaand, we just re-invented the s
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by blueintegral 10y ago
Conversational Navajo. It's such an interesting language with an amazing history. I don't know any other languages right now besides English and a bit of Spanish, and I didn't grow up around any Navajo people. Despite a relat
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by blueintegral 10y ago
I spent a little time trying to extract the program from the audio at the end of this video, but it turns out someone had already done it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/4boa6p/...
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by blueintegral 10y ago
"If you think you know the answer, write it on the back of your classified one time pad key and send it to: NSA, Box 35 Fort Meade (our fair city) Maryland".
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Analog Devices buys Linear Semi for $30B(adilinear.transactionannouncement.com)
2 points by blueintegral 10y ago|0 comments
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Leon Panetta on leadership lessons from the Bin Laden manhunt(hbr.org)
1 points by blueintegral 10y ago|0 comments
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by blueintegral 10y ago
I always thought it would be cool to make a necklace or something with ferrite cores after they'd been "written" to, so you could keep a secret message with you (albeit a short one) without suspicion.
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by blueintegral 10y ago
They've only landed a handful now, but they're already making it look so easy.
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by blueintegral 10y ago
Someone opened an issue: "Check continuity on O2 cryogenic tanks before allowing stir" https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/issues/3
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by blueintegral 10y ago
I thought this would just be an application of Benford's law, but they note in the beginning that using Benford's law doesn't work for elections (citing this paper: http://www.vote.caltech.edu/sites/defau
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by blueintegral 10y ago
This guy also wrote about his hunt for the crash site of a predecessor of the SR-71. I enjoyed reading it: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange...
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by blueintegral 10y ago
Whoops, typo.
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Ask HN: Who is this programmer making $200M per year?
10 points by blueintegral 10y ago|6 comments

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