Electronics
Cooking Up Plutonium-238
September 5, 2022
September 5, 2022
pSOS+ at Westinghouse Somewhere between 1995 and 2000, I was sent to teach a pSOS+ class to Westinghouse engineers in Savannah, Georgia.
Vintage 3″ Oscilloscope
September 30, 2019
September 30, 2019
Found this at auction for $15. No name plate and nothing to that effect inside.
Houston, We Have A Problem
November 20, 2016
November 20, 2016
It’s called a “Denial of Service” attack and it comes from a virus, affectionately named as you can see in the snippet above, “Smurf”.
Blinking HDMI
January 14, 2016
January 14, 2016
If so, you may have what I’m calling HDMI Blink.
Antenna Analysis (New Toy!)
July 29, 2015
July 29, 2015
Ok, Ok, you’re right. It’s a new toy and I wanted to show it off.
Back in the Virtual Saddle
April 8, 2013
April 8, 2013
The difference is in dealing with the inevitable “Oops!”
Speaking of Flux
February 27, 2013
February 27, 2013
Underside of vacuum tube sockets in the old Eniac-1 computer.
Stop Picking Your Nose!
February 16, 2013
February 16, 2013
“Analog computers,” he went on, “are faster, more reliable and have some practical uses besides accounting such as cannon trajectory calculations for battleships.