Photo Courtesy CollectSPACE.com When I interviewed STS-130 Mission Specialist, Bob Behnken last week in Houston at Johnson Space Center, I asked his advice for what to expect at my first shuttle launch. He gave me three tips: First, he said, "Bring bug spray." Fortunately, we didn't have to worry about that with this morning's cold, windy weath...
William Stranger specializes in building furniture out of repurposed wood. I especially liked the massive coffee table whose top is a four-inch-thick slab of bowling lane. It's part of a exhibit(?) [...]
Pete Edwards does a bit of toy-megaphone turbo bending in this music video montage shot at the Casper Electronics lab. Dang - this makes me think I should start soldering to music myself! Related:[...]
Photo courtesy Flickr user Scoutj. This article just drew my attention to the interesting story behind carmine, which is a pigment precipitated from carminic acid (shown below) extracted from the b[...]
DIN-rail mount switching power supplies operate from a control voltage of 24 Vdc and deliver an output current from 1.25A to 40A[...]
6A OKR-T/6 and 10A OKR-T/10-W12 debut as the latest additions to Okami family of non-isolated point-of-load (POL) dc/dc converters[...]
Using Sliding Twin Crossbar contact mechanisms, the SS Series ultra-miniature slide switches specifically target logic-level applications[...]
Description of two unique energy harvesting ICs. One works with most types of harvesting transducers; the other is expressly for piezoelectric vibration harvesters.[...]
Enhancing the Tristar family of Q-switched diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) industrial lasers, the high-repetition-rate 355-2 handles high-throughput LED scribing chores[...]
DIN-rail mount switching power supplies operate from a control voltage of 24 Vdc and deliver an output current from 1.25A to 40A[...]
6A OKR-T/6 and 10A OKR-T/10-W12 debut as the latest additions to Okami family of non-isolated point-of-load (POL) dc/dc converters[...]