A commenter on my recent dazzle camouflage post alerted us to the fascinating story of the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen which, in 1942, escaped destruction by the Japanese fleet because the crew moored her among other small islands and covered her in a thick layer of tree branches, thereby disguising her as a small island. [Thanks, rekinom!] ...
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the MAX15054 high-side MOSFET driver allows the implementation of buck and single-inductor buck-boost topologies with the output referenced to ground in single- and multi-string LED dr[...]
Technology Editor Bill Wong checks out a variety of low cost development kits that deliver sophisticated development environments like Texas Instrument's eZ430-Chronos, a wireless sports watch.[...]
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[...]
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