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The video game industry must be one of the most secretive sectors when it comes to developing the electronic hardware used in the gaming consoles. The big guys don't want to give anything away -- to the competition or to the hackers who will try to get around their security measures. But it seems Sifteo doesn't share those secretive values. We had a great time reading about the bumpy ride for the … [Read more...]
Although Todd Harrison could be one of many of our readers (and most of our writers), it was nice to see one of "us" featured in [EEWeb]. [HAD] has featured him before in posts such as this recent one about replacing solder tab batteries. What may be interesting to many is that soon after [Todd] graduated he took a job as a computer programmer, but like many other part-time makers, he still had … [Read more...]
This is [Pete Dokter], the fourth employee that Sparkfun ever had and currently Director of Engineering there. As you can see, they're not letting [Peter] come out of his hole. Instead of designing new breakout boards they've given him a camera that he'll be using to record his occasional pontifications. 'According to Pete' will become a regularly occuring online show where he answers questions … [Read more...]
I [Caleb], finally had a chance to catch one of the live chat sessions over at Adafruit.com called "Ask an engineer". I was pleasantly surprised. Though the show is only an hour long, the amount of information covered was quite amazing. They started out, announcing a new, this really cool looking touch screen system, product and going over the tech specs. This very quickly turned into a question … [Read more...]
Occasionally when a device breaks, the defect is obvious. Whether it is a blown fuse or a defective capacitor, generally the easy to see stuff is easy to fix. When a problem is more subtle, or when doing some more advanced tasks like adding functionality to a device, greater knowledge about a circuit board is required. While there might be details hidden in lower levels of PCB, often just knowing … [Read more...]
Hack-A-Day is looking for fulltime contributors in the the Los Angeles area. The details are in this Craigslist ad.Our friends at Mahalo are also looking for a Systems Engineer, Los Angeles. … [Read more...]
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