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I just received 2 unusual awards, one came in a tube the other in a big box about a cubic foot..... Here is a picture of the Halloween prize and the 2021 e14 physical badge .... in this case a bluebot is holding the badge. (The bluebot and some famou...

Beijing 2022 features all sorts of technology implementations. (Image Credit: Christian Lue/Unsplash) This year’s winter games has been a lot of fun to watch. On the surface, there doesn’t seem much different happening behind the scenes ...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler’s impossible problem that asks for a 6 x 6 arrangement of military officers can be solved, but only at the quantum level. (Image credit: Pixabay) 18th-century math whiz Leonhard Euler is known for his contributions...

Masato Sagawa, attending the 2014 International Conference on NdFeB magnets, received the 2022 QEPrize for his neodymium-iron-boron magnet invention. (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Everyday technology that has become applicable to our lives may s...

While not electronics related, this may be of interst to others in the UK. Whilst browing the CPC Farnell website recently (CPC Farnell being a part of Premier Farnell and AVNET etc) I came across a huge range of gardening equipment. I was amazed at ...

NASA says the ISS will plummet down to earth in January 2031. (Image Credit: NASA) It's strange, the ISS is about to host a whole movie studio in space, but now they say this? NASA recently announced plans to keep the International Spa...

carmelito  asked Santa for an Arduino Nano …and I have been lucky that Santa gave it to me.  The Arduino Nano  has not come alone, it has come very well accompanied by a great Arduino Starter Kit ! The St...

Intel's $20 billion investment is aimed toward building two new chip plants in Licking County, Ohio. I can already hear the sound of grasshoppers surrounding this place. (Image Credit: Intel) Is it enough?  On January 21st, Intel announced ...

Follow along as I poke and prod at a traffic signal! I may know someone who has an old US traffic light that needed a replacement Yellow and was surprised to find them readily available on eBay for only $10 (plus shipping). Of course I had to open i...

SEE says it expects the SEE-1 module to be complete by December 2024. (Image Credit: Axion/S.E.E) I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’m hoping it leads to far more funding and increasing the size of ISS, at least. Space Entertainment E...

Thank you to element14 and Secret Santa colporteur! This arrived on my doorstep today These are definitely a huge upgrade from the dollar-store-grade set I had been using (that's a hummingbird feather)

At most other places on the Internet "Stripper Shootout"  would have an entirely different meaning.  Here it is just a light blog providing members with an opportunity to post a picture of their favorite "strippers" and explain why they li...

A mystery Newark package appeared on my doorstep this past week. I wonder what it could be?    It’s a gift from the wonderful dychen and my secret Santa!   Remote controlled wireless touch lights!   A gift where batteries ar...

The elves at e14 and UPS were busy again, carrying my not-so-Secret Santa gift to my hardware inbox. I guess the secret part is, who will receive my suggested gift. Time will tell. Unwrapping and holding the real hardware in hands is always exciting....

A couple of months ago element14 ran an enclosures quiz that included an opportunity to win a prize. It is a pleasant surprise to win in such a contest. The prize is a  Bosch drill and screwdriver bit set and it arrived recently so I though I wo...

All I did was complete a quiz, I had forgotten there might be prizes.  Thanks to danzima for sending this out. Inside there is a varied collection of bits.  Different shapes, different materials.  I've never had concrete drill bi...

As a lucky roadtester of the METCAL GT120, I noticed that the USB interface got mostly ignored in all the reviews (myself included). With the port at the back of the unit, the discoverability is not great and that is probably the main reason for it t...

This afternoon I received a Mysterious package from Newark.  Even though I had been contacted earlier by dychen that I had one of the 20 Secret Santa gifts, I failed to make the connection. Upon opening the box and seeing the contents ...

Jeff Bezos has invested billions of dollars into Altos Labs, a startup that aims to develop anti-aging technology. (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) It looks like Jeff Bezos' life-long mission to achieve immortality is finally taking shape! The ...

I have looked Farnell I2C LCD MC21605C6W-BNMLWI-V2 It seems suitable, but I have not found any code in c-support. I would use Microchip PIC18F27K40 I have used the CCS compiler from  chttp://www.ccsinfo.com/  for 30 years. Any c-code i...

source: https://flyzolo.com/ Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford has set a world record as the youngest woman to fly solo around the world at 19 years old. Touching down in western Belgium after her 155 day journey, she has dedicated the flight to...

If you like archaeology, ancient history and the greeks, this may take your interest. The first is more of an introduction to the mechanism found on a ship by the BBC, and the second is a very detailed, academic look into it: www.youtube.com/wat...

KiCad 6 introduced some new features that make PCB art and creating badges easier.  In this blog, I'll present an outline for creating a PCB badge with electronics, a complex outline, and graphics. My previous element14 blogs on ...

KiCad has always had simple tools for creating board outlines but Version 6 now allows SVG vector graphic files to be easily imported.  The benefits of using SVG files include: Access to powerful graphic applications outside of K...

Photo by Kevin Bhagat on Unsplash Our last few years have significantly impacted the state of employment. Now, along with widespread vaccines in the US, Microsoft’s 2021 Work Trend Index is forecasting a shift in our job model from remote to h...