Wanna work in space?
Looking for a change of pace? Your day-to-day, 9-5 job making you feel like you’re glued to the ground? Maybe you need a new job. And maybe you should talk to NASA: they’re looking for more astronauts.
… Read More → "Wanna work in space?"MIT unveils artificial leaf that creates hydrogen fuel from sunlight
MIT researchers just officially unveiled a device that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The device builds upon a breakthrough hydrogen producing technology developed in 2008, and they are calling it an “artificial leaf” because of it capacity to create chemical fuels directly from sunlight. The cell is also made from common materials like silicon, cobalt and nickel, which means that the “leaf” could potentially be mass-produced. If the technology proves itself it could create hydrogen fuel directly from the sun, which could be used for … Read More → "MIT unveils artificial leaf that creates hydrogen fuel from sunlight"
If you’re looking for a simple Ardunio project, why not replicate the first personal computer?
… Read More → "If you’re looking for a simple Ardunio project, why not replicate the first personal computer?"The Kenbak-1, widely regarded as the first personal computer. The Kenbak also had the added bonus of having a very minimal I/O compliment and was built entirely with TTL components. via hack a day
The world’s highest webcam is the webcam at Mount Everest
Curious as to what’s happening at the top of Mount Everest? Tune in to the world’s highest webcam and you could find out for yourself, without having to strap on heavy-duty boots and goggles. The Mobotix M12 camera was installed by Italy’s Ev-K2-CNR scientific committee as part of a Nepalese government project, running on solar power at the top of the 5,675m high Kala Patthar summit. via Slash Gear
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Milkymist One, an open source VJ console, on sale now
Milkymist One is a video synthesizer to create real-time visuals from audio or video input. Launched in summer 2011 by a global cooperative of technology designers, it is used around the world by musicians and DJs, restaurant and club owners, people organizing parties or interested in visual art for their home. via Make
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As its Tevatron collider goes dark, Fermilab ponders a muon-rich future
Since the 1980s, the US government’s Chicago-area Fermilab has been at the forefront of high-energy physics. That’s in large part thanks to the Tevatron, the machine that first reached the energies needed to discover the last quark in the Standard Model. But the Tevatron has come to the end of its run; at 2pm on Friday, it will be shut down for the last time (an event that will be webcast).
The move will shift physicists’ focus across the Atlantic, to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The LHC is … Read More → "As its Tevatron collider goes dark, Fermilab ponders a muon-rich future"
Well I used Xilinx for Spartan-3
Well I used Xilinx for Spartan-3 and honestly I had a lot of difficulty getting on with xilinx tools… to be more precise,, their documentation/user manuals suck in a way there is lot of textual description..but no pictorial explanation of how to use them…
now I have been using Altera Quartus for like 8 months and I’m perfectly happy with that…
Altera Quartus indeed is easy, clear to understand and its like whole flow of tools linked with each other..
so if you are designing your FPGA , you do get what are you making … Read More → "Well I used Xilinx for Spartan-3"
