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Engineering News All the News Fit to Link™-Archive- Google Unveils 'Solve for X,' a Secret Project to Solve the World's Biggest Problems Trendnet Security Cam Flaw Exposes Video Feeds on Net (baby crib cams, home monitors, etc.) UK Reveals Plans for Becoming “Graphene Hub” U.S. Researchers Use Light to Weld Meshes of Nanowires Rapid Decline in Australian Landlines As More Choose Mobile Only Global Chip Sales Squeeze 0.4% Annual Growth Air Force Takes Hard Look at Structure as Budget Crunch Looms A Bronze Matryoshka Doll: The Metal in the Metal in the Metal Employers, Workers Navigate Pitfalls of Social Media Be a Star! Deadline for Second Annual ARRL Video Contest is February 29 Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself Researchers Uncover a Mechanism to Explain Dune Field Patterns LightSquared’s GPS-Interference Controversy Comes to a Boil California Retailers Test NFC Digital Receipts Letting Hackers Compete, Facebook Eyes New Talent Signs of Ancient Mars Ocean Spotted by European Spacecraft Cliff Electronics Wins Against Counterfeiters Truth, Lies and Afghanistan (like Vietnam: a-hole politicians screwing it up for military) Designing Windows 8, or How to Redesign a Religion Press Releases - Archive- IEDEC Announces Program, Focus on Excellence in Interdisciplinary Engineering Education ACS Releases v1.12 of LINC2 Visual System Architect (VSA) Hittite's New Wideband Control Products Span 100 MHz to 50 GHz RF Micro Devices Intros the RF6514 3.3 V to 4.0 V, 470 MHz to 510 MHz Tx/Rx Front End Module Anatech Power Dividers for Wireless and Defense Skyworks Ramps GPS/GNSS Solutions for Samsung M/A-COM Technology Solutions Announces New Power Amplifier for Point-to-Point Applications RF Micro Devices Intros the RF6504 3.3 to 4.0 V, 433 to 470 MHz Transmit/Receive Front End Module RF Cafe Software RF Cascade Workbook Your Host  Kirt Blattenberger... single-handedly redefining what an engineering website should be.
| Cool Product -Archive-  "ParaScan™ is a family of proprietary, composite thin-film ceramic materials whose dielectric constant varies with the application of a DC voltage. Based on a proprietary doped version of Barium Strontium Titanate (BST), ParaScan represents a foundational technology for the ParaTune™ family of tunable ICs . Paratek can produce ParaTune tunable ICs in a virtually limitless number of configurations to meet specific customer needs. Paratek's business model is a flexible one, with customer collaboration representing the cornerstone of this model. The ParaScan material is also exceptionally flexible and can be used in numerous points within wireless components and products to make them better and more efficient! Voltage-tunable ParaScan has exceptional properties, including outstanding linearity and harmonic performance, very low power consumption, and high Q (100 at 1 GHz and more than 80 at 2 GHz). ParaScan also provides high capacitance density, IP3 of greater than 70 dBm, and very fast switching speed."Video for Engineers -Archive-  It is amazing how much of what was merely science fiction a few decades ago is now reality. This video of a swarm of 20 nano quadrotors developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab is reminiscent of something out of Star Wars or The Matrix. Not only are the tiny flying machines autonomously stable, but they can fly in formation either as a fixed shape moving simultaneously from location to location, but they also move in a dynamic formation like marquee lights. Their multiple electric-powered propellers make a high speed droning sound like bees, adding to the ominous presence that a militarized version would present to an aggressor. It's quite cool and quite spooky at the same time. A company called Kmel Robotics is credited with building the nano quadrotors. I want some.Win a Free Book -Archive-  Each month, the winner can choose from a list of engineering books. Paul C. and Gary S. were the January 2012 winners.Notable Quote -Archive- "Procrastination is what you're doing when you are doing what you want to be doing." - Jorge Cham, Ph.D.Featured Book -Archive-  Dilbert: 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar,by Scott Adams Hobby & Fun Airplanes and Rockets: My personal hobby websiteEquine Kingdom: My daughter Sally's horse riding business website - lots of info Doggy Dynasty - My son-in-law's dog training business | Cool Pic -Archive-  It looks like something from a video game, and in fact, I thought the story was a hoax at first; Photoshopped images are rampant on the Internet. I even verified its existence by doing a Google satellite map on the area just to make sure. Yep, it's real. Here is a massive structure that is reportedly a Tesla generator of some sort. One of the pictures on the AboveTopSecret.com website shows a sign on the gate of the apparently abandoned site that, translated, reads, "Isled. the center of the high energies." There is no information about what the structure was used for, but if you zoom out on the satellite image, you will see to the southeast a round area defined that is about 250 meters in diameter - possibly an underground synchrotron laboratory? Ah, I just found some additional info on it - the footprint of a former giant dome (cupola) that covered an unknown structure. It could have been my guess of a synchrotron, and/or, looking again at the satellite photo, there appears to be some sort or antenna array.Smorgasbord -Archive-  Skyrocketing costs for college tuition have been an issue for a long time. Reports published lately show how the price of a semester of college has exploded in the last few decades. Those same investigations have determined that a big part of the increase has been due to the ease at which school loans can be obtained - very similar to the way housing costs have increased with easy access to mortgage money. As students were more able to pay the rate, supply and demand allowed costs to go up accordingly. For instance, the above chart shows that from 1982 to 2007 the cost of tuition, fees, room, and board increased by an average of about 450%. During the same period the median family income increased 150% and the CPI was up 100%. Even medical care "only" increased by 250%. To illustrate the oblivion nature of far too many students, at the behest of professors and administrators who are themselves part of "the 1%," from an income and privilege standpoint, the students attend Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations to rail against the 1%. Ivory Tower pontificators blasting Capitalism while profiting from it are not limited to universities; their names are in the news on a daily basis. Engineering Jobs - Technical Director of RF Engineering Needed, Aethercomm - Director of Sales - Ferrite Products, TRAK | Channel Microwave - RF Engineering, Modelithics - Staff MEMS Design and Characterization Engineer, RFMD - RF Switch Lead Design Engineer, RFMD - Project/Product Managers, RFMD - RF Competitive Analysis Engineer, RFMD - Advanced Technology Development Engineers, RFMD - Sales Engineer, TRU Corp. | Daily Specials -Archive-- Poll: What Do You Think of Super Bowl XLVI Ads? (see right border)
Illuminating the Dangers of Lightning Strikes New Q-Band Marine Radar, April 1967 Electronics World See Google's Doodle for Today: Charles Dickens Passport to Engineering in the EU Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle - 2/5/2012
Standards Define Test Impulses, Mostly, by Jeff Lind What's a Good "Real Engineer" Question? Rebuilding America: Really? Have We Given Up? How to Fix Your iPhone If It's Completely Frozen
Congrats Also to Gary S. for Winning Igor Grigorov's Urban Antennas Advances in Radar Simulation Design, by L. Williams, M. Commens & S. Rousselle Congrats to Paul C. for Winning Microwave Materials for Wireless Applications! RF Switch Lead Design Engineer Needed by RFMD
Understanding the Magic Tee / 0° Hybrid Combiner / Divider, by Gary Breed The Importance of Peak Power Measurements for Radar Systems, by Bob Muro Staff MEMS Design and Characterization Engineer Needed by RFMD RF Cafe Quiz #44: Monopulse Principles and Techniques Radar Signature Analysis c.1967 Sherlock Ohms: Power Supplies Cause Confusion in Lab
Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle - 1/29/2012 Advanced Technology Development Engineers Sought by RFMD Sherlock Ohms: Battery Sparks Red-Hot Mystery What Were They Thinking: Patent Crazy in LEDs Project/Product Managers Sought by RFMD Understanding Transistor Circuits - A Novel
Predict Mixer Noise Behavior, by Roy Monzello Technical Director of RF Engineering Needed by Aethercomm |
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