by Eric Bogatin | Mar 2, 2014 | Astonishing Science News, Inspiration, What Works
published in EE Times Looking for that perfect Christmas gift that will give your 6- to 14-year-old a taste of the most basic engineering principle — that you can change your world if you can dream it — and stir their creative juices while having a lot of...
by Eric Bogatin | Mar 2, 2014 | Astonishing Science News, Inspiration
When we look at a few Hubble photos of distant galaxies we may get the impression the universe is a static place. Other than the occasional supernova brightening, the galaxies we see haven’t changed much over the hundred years of observational history. But, it may...
by Eric Bogatin | Mar 2, 2014 | Astonishing Science News, Inspiration, Life 201
Jim Williams in his lab at Linear Tech, with his beloved Tek scopes and assorted breadboards. I was saddened to learn last year of the passing of Jim Williams. He died on June 10, 2011 of a massive stroke. As a young, impressionable MIT undergraduate physics student,...
by Eric Bogatin | May 27, 2013 | Astonishing Science News
I’ve had this Keithley 196 6 1/2 digit multimeter for about 25 years and it works as great today as it did when I first got it. I usually use it on the voltage scale or the Ohms scale. On the 30 v scale, the least digit is 10 uV. When pushed to the limit, on the 300...
by Eric Bogatin | May 27, 2013 | Astonishing Science News
The Teledyne LeCroy WaveAce 2034 is a “gateway drug” into digital scopes. It has the front panel interface typical of traditional analog scopes, but with lots more buttons and features which enable us to tap into its powerful digital signal analysis features. As with...
by Eric Bogatin | Feb 24, 2013 | Astonishing Science News
I’ve had a recurring problem with my Celestron SCT C6 telescope since I received it in Feb, 2008. Every now and then, especially when I am slewing the scope, and more often in cold weather, the scope stops working and the hand controller resets to the power up state....
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