Congratulation to the last contest winner. The prize this week is a travel adapter so that you can keep all of your gadgets working even when you are far away from home. This contest will run for this weekend only (September 29 – 30, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done
This is a 1GB IBM hard drive from about 20 years ago. Wow how technology has evolved! Do you think that the engineers of the day would guess that today we would have more than a hundred times that storage in your pocket which also by the way has a color screen, battery and the smarts to make it play audio and video? Here are some other hard drives to
Check out this cool PIC Microcontroller Touch Keypad by Mondo Technology. I love the simplicity of button press detection. There are lots of industrial buttons that do this exact thing but they are very costly. “This board layout was created using the SOIC version of a PIC16F627A without drawing the usual schematic first. Most of the part values are etched on the Layout. The SIP resistor packs I used are
