element14: Let’s start with you telling the element14 Community audience a little bit about yourself: what you do, who you work for and what was your formal education?Victor: Okay, good. My name is Victor. I live in the Netherlands....
element14: Hi Mark. Tell us a little about yourself and your technical experience.Mark: Way back in 1977 I started with our local (New Zealand) telecommunications company which was part of the New Zealand Post Office. I trained as a radio techn...
element14: Hi Doug. Tell me a little about your experience as an engineer?Doug: I guess I fall into the jack-of-all-trades/independent electronic designer category. I started out as an EE designing all kinds of instrumentation for cars, trucks,...
element14: Hi Shabaz. Why don’t we start by discussing your background? From your e-mail address I see you work for Cisco.Shabaz: Yes, that's right. I have been working for Cisco for quite a while actually. I was originally a software engineer ...
element14: John, please tell us a little about yourselfJohn: Basically, FPGA work is my main consulting activity. My primary customer - actually currently my only customer - is a former employer that I designed an FPGA for and they keep n...
ILC Dover’s New Z-2 space suit protects against micrometeor strikes and features fashionable shorts. (via NASA)NASA has had roughly nine spacesuits designed for astronauts to travel into space with since Alan Shepard was chucked into orbit during the...
Flock 1 on the shelf.. ready to deploy! (via PLI)Planet Labs, based in San Francisco, CA, recently announced that its group of advanced imaging satellites, called Flock 1, was recently deployed into outer space from the International Space Station an...
Remember from "The Dark Knight Rises," Batman used an EMP gun to stop cars? It's about to be real... (via TDKR Trailer) Police chases are not very common, despite what we see in our media. However, when one does happen in real life it can be ext...
We are pleased to announce that David Schulz is the winner of the PiRack Connect Four Challenge! The competitors in this challenge were tasked with creating a project using the PiRack and any combination of up to four compatible devices. David u...
Last week Google launched a new feature called 'Help Outs'. Described as 'Real time help, from real time people', this is Google's attempt to try and utilize the hangout feature as a means to offering 1:1 training with experts on ...
Who Wins? Help us answer an age-old sci- fi question: Earlier this month the element14 Community reached its 200.000th member milestone. As a thank you to our members, we decided to have some fun and engage SYN/HAK, an Akron,Ohio-based Hac...
Air Force Combat Controllers. (via US Army) The US military relies heavily on wireless technology, more than the general public as military personnel use wireless for everything from communications to controlling drones. Because the military rel...
Join the Fun!Celebrating 4 Years of Amazing Members! It’s been a month long celebration and today the team at element14 Community would like to take the opportunity to say a BIG THANK YOU! We really appreciate all of our amazing mem...
Hi everyone, I am currently writing a new book, tentatively titled "I Killed Schrodingers Cat!". I need your help to create a consensus about the current understanding of these issues. I will outline about 30 questions here that I wou...
Happy Friday Everyone! element14 Community is lucky to have such amazing members who are willing to help each other find answers to their questions! Check out the list below to learn more about the top 10 helpful members on element14 Commu...
As you may have seen in our member areas and home page we are celebrating 4 great years of amazing members at element14. We are thrilled that the community has grown not only in size, but in in the level of engagement and the scope in which we ...
Another year has flown by. We still can't believe it was only 4 short years ago when the Community first launched. So, we took a bit of time to see how much we've grown. Thanks to our amazing members, element14 Community Team ps. The high res i...
