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by quadstick 7y ago
You are right, we live in the golden age of electronics prototyping. I'll throw in plugs for the Octopart search engine for finding parts, and PCBEX for inexpensive prototype boards up to ten layers.
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by quadstick 9y ago
100 years ago, yesterday, was the worst hard rock mining disaster in the US, in Butte, Montana. They didn't have this way of warning the miners back then and 168 miners died due to a fire in one of the shafts. Most died from asphyxia
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by quadstick 11y ago
The original post may have been intended for a select audience that would be familiar with the context, so that author may be forgiven, but the person that submitted the post should have kept in mind the much wider audience here. As a hardw
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by quadstick 11y ago
Well done. I love Octopart. It's on my browser tool bar next to the Google icon and it is my starting point on every production run's buying cycle.
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by quadstick 11y ago
For non-open source projects, an inexpensive alternative source of PIDs is http://www.mcselec.com . Do a product search for PID. They assert the same rational for selling PIDs under the old license.
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by quadstick 12y ago
As a Geezer Geek, this breaks my heart. When I was eight years old, my mom dragged me along to the Tandy Leather Company so my sister could buy some leather for some stupid project. In the corner of that huge store was a section with all
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by quadstick 12y ago
Prolog, another old AI language. Digitalk Smalltalk used to come with Prolog written in Smalltalk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog
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by quadstick 13y ago
http://quadstick.com is developing a mouth operated programmable joystick/mouse/keyboard. A sequential combination of up to eight input signals (specific joystick movements and/or a sequence of hard or soft sip &