What is more American than an Apple Pie? Why, a Pie designed in California, made in China. This is one pie I’d like to jailbreak. Is applying too much heat to this pie considered an upgrade? Okay, that’s all the lame puns I have for this laser cut pie.
Evil Mad Scientist Labratories provides a tutorial on how to bake a Mac Mini Style Apple pie, complete with Laser Cutting Instructions. Yeah that’s right, a laser cut pie.
Even knowing that the name Arduino was rooted in Italian, I have often wondered what it meant. David Kushner of IEEE Spectrum has a great write-up on the beginnings of the Arduino project.
Great read. The most surprising thing to me is that over 250,000 official boards have sold since 2005. That isn’t counting clones and stand alones. Wow!
The lead hardware designer of both the original ARM core and the BBC Micro Computer, Professor Steve Furber, is leading an effort to simulate the human brain with ARM cores. Custom chips with 18 cores each will be used. Check out the story at Electronics Weekly for more information: One million ARM cores to simulate brain at Manche`ster – 7/8/2011 – Electronics Weekly.
A long time fan of the NASA Space program, the last shuttle going up is a little bit sad. Artist Alberto Cuadra has put together this infographic about the shuttle. Originally created by the Houston Chronicle. (Citation missing, please comment if you have one!)
These days it is pretty rare to see a press release from a semiconductor company touting 5V TTL capabilities. Diodes is upgrading their 5V TTL logic as reported by Electronics Weekly. While the 5V operating will easily appeal to hobbyist, the package sizes may not. They are not through-hole components. However, the 74ACHT series will provide you surface mount solutions for AND, NAND, OR, NOR, XOR, Inverter, and Schmitt trigger glue logic.
Diodes can be found at www.diodes.com.
