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Blinking lights is a lot of fun, but if you're getting an EE degree the cool stuff becomes a bit more involved. In this case, building your own radar is the thing to do. Here's a coffee can radar setup being shown off by a group of UC Davis students. Regular readers will recognize the concept as one we looked at in December. The project was inspired by the MIT OpenCourseware project. One of the … [Read more...]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology just announced the first course offering in their new online classes program. Great news, it's an analog design course which is right up our alley. The prototype session will be 6.002: Circuits and Electronics. If you're a fan of our links posts you may remember hearing about the MITx program a month ago. After seeing the popularity of the Stanford … [Read more...]
They can put a man on the moon, but they can't put a man in LEO Yeah, we're enraged by that headline. Anyway, NASA put up a whole bunch of projects and made them open source. From the looks of it, there's plenty of cool stuff: genetic algorithm libs, toolkits for astrodynamics simulations (on the Goddard site), and this cool thing. Nyan all the disks! [brainsmoke], a hacker over at … [Read more...]
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