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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Wish you had a skylight, but don't have the ability to cut a hole in your roof? MAKE subscriber Chris did to, and wrote in to share his solution to the problem: a pv+led-based 'fake' skylight . The concept is pretty simple, but with a nice result. He had some unused capacity on his PV ( photovoltatic ) solar panel, and basically hooked up a bunch of high power LEDs directly to it. To achieve the 'skylight'...
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EE Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Mitsubishi has agreed terms with Professor Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, professor emeritus at Columbia University, New York, over her assertion that Mitsubishi and dozens of other electronics manufacturers in Asia and Europe violated her patents for producing light emitting diodes and laser diodes.
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M1KTA's QRP ham radio blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I found a tin of bits and a page of scribbled notes and the above circuit. Got a spare pair of LM3914 and LED as well so could display both fwd and rev not just the SWR. Using the above as a guide I think I could do this also.... build new or salvage a CB SWR bridge (£3 from Rishworth) - as I need a voltage for FORWARD and one for REVERSE. I believe a stockton bridge would be frequency independent,...
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FlashlightNews (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Mouser Electronics, Inc., known for its rapid introduction of the newest products, today announced it has signed a global distribution agreement with Comchip Technology Corporation, a leader in the design and manufacture of SMD diodes.
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Free No Catch Ringtones (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
(Technology Maverick) Light Emitting Diodes are commonly known as LEDs. They were discovered by a Russian radio technician who noticed that when a charge was passed through the diodes in a radio receiver, they glowed. The MP3 player technology works to compress audio files to such a size that they can be contained in a much smaller physical space than traditional vinyl records or CDs. Users are able...
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Nouslife (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Well whatever the Pope's intentions, this certainly looked like crowing: "In Rome, Vittorio Messori, who has co-written books with the Pope, said that the Anglican Communion was already losing followers because of female and gay priests." See: 400,000 former Anglicans worldwide seek immediate unity with Rome -Times Online: Of course, what no-one (well, hardly anyone) reports is the steady...
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Hack A Day (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Phasers come with two settings: stun and kill. [Luke] took this seriously when he put two Blu-ray lasers into a toy raygun. He picked up the toy from Amazon for about twenty bucks and set to work. The laser diodes are both pulled out of a 6x BD-R burner, which we think is a pretty expensive [...]
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IndyStar.com (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Indianapolis will join other cities using federal stimulus funds to add traffic signals with light-emitting diodes.
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Nouslife (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
"Obama deserves praise for his compelling vision -- but without more real change, our hopes will be lost. Only by following through with courageous, transformative action for peace can Obama fulfil his promise -- and history judge that this prize is deserved.Let's define this moment as a challenge to be bold -- let’s send Obama a million messages of encouragement and urgency, pressing him...
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Indy Star (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Indianapolis will join other cities using federal stimulus funds to add traffic signals will light-emitting diodes.
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The Salted Slug (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
It’s amazing what you find on t’web. Check this out. That there is a Marx generator . I thought it was a Cockcroft-Walton voltage generator like the one my University department had in their foyer, but bigger. eg: But 'tis not, is apparently a Marx generator, a cousin to that device, which replaces the diodes with spark-gap switches. Basically another interwar electrostatic nightmare. The...
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Nouslife (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Look at this: Protection Or Peril? Gun Possession Of Questionable Value In An Assault, Study Finds.: "on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun."No surprise to those of us whose reading of the gospels leads us to think...
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Nouslife (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
New Scientist asked a bunch of authors to write some micro-stories about the year 2107. Stephen Baxter (again) shows how Sci Fi can explore important existential questions about technology and 'progress'. Here's the end; raising all the pertinent questions ...Kelvin 2.0 by Stephen Baxter - 16 September 2009 - New Scientist: "And we need your help. The suicides have started... How did you cope
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
ORLANDO, FL -- 09/24/09 -- In a major breakthrough for the longevity of products employing laser diodes, Pangolin Laser Systems, the world's largest producer of laser display software and control hardware, has introduced what it calls the world's f..
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