September 12, 2011

Bomb Clock

If you like to get woken up with a bang this Bomb Clock is for you! Watch the video below to see what happens when you don’t defuse it correctly. This will be available as a kit soon, I can just imagine the hack to come which includes a small fire cracker to signal a failure to defuse the clock. Via: Electronics Lab “The Defusable Clock is a fully-functional alarm

IBM and 3M Adhesive will make Computers 1000 Times More Powerful?

Will this new IBM/3M super adhesive revolutionize the computer CPU as we know it? We have been hearing that the silicon technology in our modern day processors is nearing the edge of size reduction. Just like growing the chip die to add additional CPUs this new idea allows the addition of processors but without the increase of the die footprint by stacking them! One can only imagine how the connections

Open 7400 Logic Competition

The Open 7400 Logic Competition is open and waiting your creative entry. I am not even sure the last time I slid open my drawer that contains my various 7400 chips I did see my TI 7400 yellow data book the other day. The thing I used to love about troubleshooting a circuit built with 7400 parts is that you could easily confirm a bad chip hunch in about 5