“The team at nonolith labs announced their CEE, a device for billed as, “an analog buspirate” that is meant to control, experiment, and explore the world of analog electronics. Nonolith labs started a kickstarter campaign for the CEE.

The CEE is capable of sub-millivolt and milliamp sampling at 44.1k samples/second, and sourcing 2 channels of 5V @ 2A with a little bit of soldering. This allows for precise control of motors and sensors with the web-based UI. We’re thinking this would be a great way to teach high schoolers the art … Read More → "CEE is a swiss army knife for analog electronics"

“By 2014, all of South Korea’s elementary-level educational materials will be digitized, and by 2015, the entire school-age curriculum will be delivered on an array of computers, smart phones and tablets. While the country’s education ministry is yet to announce the make or model of the devices it will purchase, it has revealed it will spend $2.4 billion buying the requisite tablets and digitizing material for them.” via MIT Technology Review

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Marek Tomasik built this chamber out of wood and old computer parts. via Boing Boing

GSM was adopted in 1987 as the European standard for second generation mobile technology and today, more than 4.4 billion people use phones based on that GSM standard.

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“The Dutch carrier KLM is the first airline in the world to move beyond the testing and promotion phase of using biofuels in one if its jets and is actually started using the stuff in service. The first flight occurred this week on a regularly scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Paris.” via Wired

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“Robert Morris, a cryptographer who helped develop the Unix computer operating system, which controls an increasing number of the world’s computers and touches almost every aspect of modern life, died on Sunday in Lebanon, N.H. He was 78.” via NYT

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“Gel pens, beloved by middle-school girls, are good for decorating cootie catchers, evading laboratory ink analysis, and not much else. But if you replace that metallic ink with real silver, you get something quite remarkable: a pen that can draw functioning circuits on paper.

Engineers at the University of Illinois have built such a device and used it to put together several clever electronic doodads.” via Discover

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“Scientists from IBM Research – Zurich are claiming a world-first, for their recent demonstration of “reliable multi-bit phase-change memory [PCM] technology.” PCM involves the use of materials that change between crystalline and amorphous states, the two states having different levels of electrical resistance – data is stored in a binary fashion, using one level to represent a 0, and the other to represent a 1. By applying new techniques to existing PCM technology, the researchers were reportedly able to write and retrieve data 100 times faster than is possible with Flash.” via Gizmag</ … Read More → "IBM demonstrates multi-bit phase-change memory chip"

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“Applied Materials, the largest making of chip making equipment, announced what it called a “breakthrough” technology in manufacturing chips that could become critical for continued technological progress in electronics for years to come.” via Venture Beat

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