tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9552155015346599942024-03-13T09:30:16.447-04:00KI4LLFI may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-45399625863641337232022-12-17T22:12:00.002-05:002022-12-17T22:12:34.650-05:00<p> WOW! </p><p>I forgot all about this blog.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's Christmas 2022, a lot of things have changed and I'm good with that.</p>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-31012231972154550722017-04-07T09:06:00.000-04:002017-04-07T09:07:51.034-04:00I'm Baaackk.<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NsWBtOUzkl8/WOeENrg0UBI/AAAAAAAABv0/IehWWmDi1FMsf1qosHHaLxVt0fg1rR22QCLcB/s1600/20170401_180844.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NsWBtOUzkl8/WOeENrg0UBI/AAAAAAAABv0/IehWWmDi1FMsf1qosHHaLxVt0fg1rR22QCLcB/s400/20170401_180844.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Greetings Interwebites. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's been a long while, and I am ready to start sharing again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">First: after cataract surgery I can see better than ever, out of one eye at least so I want to start flying at distance again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In as much, I am building 2 more 550 size hexacopters. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">These will be for experimenting with different payloads and functions, more later of course. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was feeling a bit hungry so I grabbed a Granny Smith apple from the fridge sliced it and then noticed a bottle of Glenfiddich on the counter. So I figured what the hell? </span><span style="font-size: large;">I dipped an apple slice into the shot glass before eating it and it was a winning combination!</span></div>
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Had lots of fun in the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte last night, starting at Blue Restaurant where I had a double scotch, and a couple Redhook IPA's. Then walked to McGlohon Theater and talked with those sitting near me about the TPBs and their new projects. The show was great, with all the mayhem and fun always surrounding the boys. </div>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Last night I was enjoying the show from VIP seating. Close enough to get a face full of water during the performance of Smells Like Nirvana when Al tossed a cup full into the audience. The show was fantastic. The band was perfect as usual. </div><div style="text-align: center;">All the guys are excellent performers and totally dedicated to their art. </div><div style="text-align: left;">There were numerous costume changes. A furry peacock during Perform This Way, Kurt Cobain during Smells Like Nirvana, black suit and sunglasses for Party in the CIA, black suit, hat and beard during Amish Paradise, black and red zebra stripe lounge suit for Wanna Be Your Lover. White&Nerdy hoodie while riding a Segway on stage, while the band were dressed as perfect nerds, with horn rimmed glasses. and pocket protectors, Jim West was miming texting on an invisable device! </div><div style="text-align: left;">The costume changes were covered by use of his multimedia show which included his AL-TV interviews, there were clips from pop-culture TV shows showing his own influence on pop-culture. The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Naked Gun as well as many others throughout the years dropping his name. My favorite has always been The Simpsons when Homer laments “He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.” The multimedia show is now becoming an audience participation piece, akin to Rocky Horror, in particular with the audience speaking along with Yoni (Getty Watanabi) during the Wheel Of Fish clip from UHF, ["Weaver, you are so STUPID!"]</div><div style="text-align: left;">The finale was staged beautifully as Al and the band were accompanied by Darth Vader and 4 Imperial Storm Troopers, and was comprised of The Saga Begins followed by Yoda, including the syncopated nonsense now a trademark of the encore performance of that song. Except for that bit the entire audience was singing along to Saga and Yoda.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkyrGFQX9GM/TpJQgIqt65I/AAAAAAAAARc/WOoT-v9ivxs/s1600/alblog2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kca="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkyrGFQX9GM/TpJQgIqt65I/AAAAAAAAARc/WOoT-v9ivxs/s1600/alblog2.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">“He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.”</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-86669025503089236942011-09-30T04:50:00.010-04:002011-10-09T22:04:26.207-04:00Thank you, jackass! Now some loser jackass is trying to use my hobby as a jihad weapon! <br />
Just after 9/11/2001 the paranoid Republican controlled government started over regulating <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.space-rockets.com/congress.html">model rocket engines</a></span> of over 62 grams. I can't even see the logic there. The 9/11 terrorists used commercial aircraft to destroy the World Trade Center, not model rockets or planes. <br />
Now this brainless loser has come up with a plan to load 5 pounds of C4 explosive into 5 high speed model planes and fly them into the Pentagon, Capital and some bridge(s) over the Potomac River. <br />
If he really wanted to damage one of those targets, he should wear the 25 pounds of C4 he bought and blow himself up like all good delusional terrorists. <br />
It only takes one dummy to ruin something the rest of us enjoy doing safely.<br />
I hope Johnny Jihad's actions don't mean regulations in the sale of r/c planes. <br />
If our idiot lawmakers would regulate C4 more closely, then maybe the rest of us can still enjoy our hobby of flying model aircraft.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="photo_caption">A large remote controlled aircraft similar to what the department says </div><div class="photo_caption">suspect Rezwan Ferdaus plotted to fill with C-4 plastic explosives to </div><div class="photo_caption">use in an attack of the Pentagon and U.S. Capital.</div><div class="photo_caption"> </div><div class="photo_caption"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here is a good <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQv0fN1vOo">video</a> showing how model aircraft are constructed </span><br />
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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man accused of plotting to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol was asked to leave a Boston mosque because of his radical views.<br />
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An official with the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center says Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland was suspected of admiring al-Qaida and criticized the mosque's participation in interfaith efforts and politics.<br />
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Atif Harden, director of institutional advancement at the mosque, tells <a href="http://bo.st/ojW4kf">The Boston Globe</a> that Ferdaus disapproved of the mosque's policies that allowed men and women to eat together in its cafe and was hostile toward women he thought dressed inappropriately or who talked to men.<br />
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Harden called Ferdaus "very disaffected, very disturbed. Just a bitter, angry guy."<br />
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The 26-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested Wednesday.<br />
</div><div align="left" class="photo_caption">Information from: The Boston Globe, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe">http://www.boston.com/globe</a><br />
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Vendors are here and setting up their stuff.<br />
EMS, Police, Fire and National Guard ready to assist if needed.<br />
Temperature is 54 and cloudy. Looks like the start of a good one.<br />
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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake recorded in Virginia Tuesday afternoon forced small tremors to shake populations across eastern United States, including Lincoln County where numerous county employees evacuated downtown office buildings.</div>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-38841427945103926912011-08-23T16:25:00.001-04:002011-08-23T16:26:21.349-04:005.9 Earthquake hits Mineral Virginia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H4aHOEsCowA/TlQLpXkDw_I/AAAAAAAAAQw/HCf5r1P-8RA/s1600/32_42_-85_-75.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H4aHOEsCowA/TlQLpXkDw_I/AAAAAAAAAQw/HCf5r1P-8RA/s320/32_42_-85_-75.gif" width="320" /></a></div>WOW, We really felt that one, my office on the 3rd floor of the old Nations Bank building in Lincolnton was swaying for about 30 seconds, so we decided to head outside for awhile. Once outside some folks said they smelled gas, the fire department was called they went in and checked the building, and we were back in the office in 30 minutes. That's the second quake I have felt in my life, both on the east coast. KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-76911638170380556802011-08-12T14:27:00.000-04:002011-08-12T14:27:36.565-04:00Hi-tech ‘tattoos’ can monitor patients’ health<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Researchers at the University of Illinois are developing 'rub-on electronics' </strong><br />
<strong>that can be applied like a temporary tattoo and used to monitor </strong><strong>vital signs</strong><br />
<strong>such as heart rate and brain activity. </strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The current methods for monitoring patients’ health once they leave hospital following treatment are often rather cumbersome. Current technology is mostly too bulky for the patient to carry around with them, but “rub-on electronics that stick to the skin like a temporary tattoo could revolutionise medical monitoring.” <br />
“They took the silicon and gallium arsenide typically used to build transistors, diodes and resistors, and fashioned it into wires just a few nanometres thick, each bent into the shape of a tiny meandering river. The meanders can stretch and contract to give electronics constructed from them a degree of flexibility which matches that of skin.”<br />
Finally they put the circuits constructed from the wires onto a thin piece of rubber and embedded it inside a protective sheet of plastic. The resulting patch has a thickness of just 0.04mm.<br />
The patch is then put on the skin by simply rubbing it with a wet finger, just as you would with a temporary tattoo.<br />
The patches are already able to monitor the heart, various other muscles and brain activity. According to Ali Javey of the University of California, the patches are “a beautiful example of the novel applications than can be enabled by building electronic systems on non-conventional substrates,” adding: “This is truly exciting work.”<br />
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KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-9383707391764816702011-08-10T02:17:00.001-04:002011-08-10T12:20:27.172-04:00Experimental Aircraft<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Experimental Aircraft to Go From Zero to 13,000 in Hypersonic Test Launch</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-twWqc9WA8Zo/TkIiNc2NqTI/AAAAAAAAAPo/yxImNtOlQFk/s1600/HypersonicPlane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-twWqc9WA8Zo/TkIiNc2NqTI/AAAAAAAAAPo/yxImNtOlQFk/s400/HypersonicPlane.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>DARPA - Falcon HTV-2 is an arrowhead-shaped aircraft that launches in a rocket, separates and then glides at hypersonic speeds of 13,000 mph through the Earth’s atmosphere.<br />
Wednesday’s launch marks the aircraft's second flight. In April 2010, the Falcon flew for nine minutes, including 130 seconds of Mach 22 to Mach 17 flight, according to DARPA, the military's research arm.<br />
That flight ended prematurely when the onboard computer cancelled the flight, and rolled the aircraft into the ocean.<br />
The goal of the second flight is to "validate our assumptions and gain further insight into extremely high Mach regimes that we cannot fully replicate on the ground," Air Force Maj. Chris Schulz said in a DARPA news release. <br />
Engineers adjusted the vehicle’s center of gravity, decreased the angle of attack flown and will use the onboard reaction control system to augment the vehicle flaps to maintain stability during flight operations, DARPA said.<br />
The goal of the project is to eventually enable the U.S. military to strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour.KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-9529826832253631662011-08-04T18:47:00.000-04:002011-08-04T18:47:15.726-04:00WiFi War Flying <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike Tassey (l) and Rich Perkins (r) describe how they retrofitted <br />
a U.S. Army surplus target drone.<br />
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<div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) LAS VEGAS--Forget Wi-Fi war driving. Now it's war flying. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A pair of security engineers showed up at the Black Hat security conference here to show off a prototype that can eavesdrop on Wi-Fi, phone, and Bluetooth signals: a retrofitted U.S. Army target drone, bristling with electronic gear and an array of antennas. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Nobody's really looking at this from a threat perspective," said Mike Tassey, a security consultant who works for the U.S. government intelligence community. "There's some pretty evil stuff you can do from the sky." </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The term war driving, meaning searching for Wi-Fi networks from a moving vehicle, was coined approximately a decade ago.. But aerial drones can gain access to places that might be off-limits to vehicles--and, in theory, can follow a moving signal surreptitiously from above. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their prototype Wi-Fi drone, which was brought on stage yesterday but not flown, is made of reinforced foam and can carry 20 pounds. They added landing gear, a 2.5 horsepower motor powered by lithium polymer batteries, a telemetry link, an onboard computer running Ubuntu, and a payload of wireless sniffers and network-cracking tools. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We can identify a target by his cell phone and follow him home to where enterprise security doesn't reach," Rich Perkins, a security engineer who describes his job as "supporting the U.S. government" and co-created the drone. "We can reverse engineer someone's life." </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The drone--which they dubbed WASP, for Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform--can stay aloft for about an hour. While it's an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, in flight, the initial version requires manual operator control for takeoffs and landings. (It cost them between $6,000 and $7,000 to build in a garage, they said, not counting their own time.) </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their ulterior motive, however, is to do more than describe their wireless-sniffing prototype: it was to offer a warning about how terrorists and criminals can use UAVs in ways that traditional military and law enforcement may not be expecting. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"UAVs pose a couple of unique challenges to people who are responsible for protecting things," Tassey said. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even the modest payload of UAVs could be devastating in biological or radiological attacks. Drug smugglers--or, perhaps, pharmaceutical entrepreneurs--could carry around $400,000 in heroin through one flight across a national border. And the small size of UAVs, and virtually nonexistent presence on radar, make them a challenge to detect and shoot down. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There's no requirement for good intentions," Perkins said. </span></div><br />
<div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had this same idea about 5 years ago when I started flying helicopters. I wish I didn't have to work all the time so I could try something like this.</span></span></div><div align="left"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Australian creator, Chris Malloy, and his hover bike.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It is literally the seat and the 1,170cc 4-stroke boxer engine of a </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">BMW </span><span style="font-size: small;">motorcycle </span><span style="font-size: small;">welded to two massive 80kW rotor blades. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Put a clear Plexiglass dome on it, and I have </span><span style="font-size: small;">my Jetson-like flying car!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/230178/hover_bikes_are_real_let_you_eat_your_pie_in_the_sky.html">[read the whole article here]</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X3R58dET-5c/ThbefdH7fwI/AAAAAAAAALE/xLXFs8CI5TE/s1600/ringworld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" m$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X3R58dET-5c/ThbefdH7fwI/AAAAAAAAALE/xLXFs8CI5TE/s320/ringworld.jpg" width="199" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perhaps my favorite book(s) of all.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><h1 style="color: #003399; font: bold 1.7em Georgia, serif; margin-top: -1px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">IVF Lottery Raises Eyebrows in U.K.</span></h1><h1 style="color: #003399; font: bold 1.7em Georgia, serif; margin-top: -1px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: blue;">By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today</span></span></h1><h1 style="color: #003399; font: bold 1.7em Georgia, serif; margin-top: -1px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: blue;">Published: July 07, 2011</span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Starting next month, couples in the U.K. will be able to slightly raise their odds of having a baby -- by buying into an in-vitro fertilization lottery.</span></h1><h1 style="color: #003399; font: bold 1.7em Georgia, serif; margin-top: -1px;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">The country's gambling commission recently approved the lotto, run by a U.K. charity called To Hatch. A ticket price of $32 (£20) will hold the promise of about $40,000 (£25,000) in fertility treatments.</span></h1><h1 style="color: #003399; font: bold 1.7em Georgia, serif; margin-top: -1px;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.medpagetoday.com/OBGYN/Infertility/27457">[read the entire article here]</a></span></h1><div style="color: #003399; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin-top: -1px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Just a bit different from Larry Niven's Birth Right Lotteries, as mentioned in the Ringworld Trilogies. According to the story in <i>Ringworld</i>, Puppeteers intervened (indirectly) with the birth control laws of Earth five generations previously. The right to reproduce was strictly limited: with some exceptions, everybody was entitled to reproduce exactly once. This did not result in a replacement rate of fertility, so the system also included a Birthright Lottery whereby any person could enter and win the chance to reproduce more often. The Puppeteers set this up specifically as a program of breeding human beings for luck. They believed luck to be a genetic (thus inheritable) psionic </span><span style="color: black;">ability, and they regarded humans as unusually lucky to begin with. "Your species has been incredibly lucky. Your history reads like a series of hair-breadth escapes", Nessus (a Puppeteer) says to Louis (a Human).</span></span></div><div style="color: #003399; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin-top: -1px;"><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This series is a great read, I suggest you put it on your 'must read' list.</span><br />
</div>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-68120912688313878762011-06-30T21:41:00.010-04:002011-07-03T06:01:26.195-04:00I Love My Job<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bpE5Nc-D8gM/Tg0ZzIIDupI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/Dea4TcLlHB8/s1600/R1164-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" i$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bpE5Nc-D8gM/Tg0ZzIIDupI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/Dea4TcLlHB8/s1600/R1164-1.JPG" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Today I had to modify Yaesu FT60R ham radios for Emergency Management. Now our first responders can transmit on Police, Fire, Marine & amateur bands. This makes inter-agency operations possible in an emergency situation.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I only had to remove this one smt resistor.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I used Kapton tape to protect the circuit board in case my hand slipped, that is the yellow bits in the photo. NASA has been using Kapton tape since the Apollo missions because of its excellent thermal properties.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oxGU3s3jXsY/Tg2eDYPziFI/AAAAAAAAAK0/2xxISig9UBE/s1600/R1164-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oxGU3s3jXsY/Tg2eDYPziFI/AAAAAAAAAK0/2xxISig9UBE/s1600/R1164-2.JPG" /></a></div>To get an idea of the size of the resistor, I photographed it against a metric ruler. The resistor is about 1.0 mm in length and 0.5 mm wide. It is so small I had to use a 10x magnifying lamp while wearing 4x magnifying glasses. This also shows the beauty of digital electronics. Converting an analog radio would be more time consuming, would have required replacing some parts, re-tuning some others & would have required expensive test equipment.<br />
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<strong>Did I mention, I love my job?</strong> 8^)<br />
KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-68456419237999750352011-06-24T06:37:00.004-04:002011-06-24T06:49:44.833-04:00T-Hawk down!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;">TOKYO -A small 8.2 kilogram drone aircraft gathering data from heavily damaged areas of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant lost control Friday and landed on the roof of the No. 2 reactor building, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The vehicle, known as a T-Hawk, is about 50 centimeters in diameter and looks like a small jet pack. It is used primarily by the military for reconnaissance work in dangerous areas. It has been used at Fukushima Daiichi since mid-April to assist in damage assessment. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The company said there didn't appear to be any damage from the impact of the vehicle, with no fire or smoke observed following the accident. It wasn't known if the vehicle was damaged in any way. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">By Mitsuru Obe Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what is a T-Hawk? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looks like my kind of toy!! With all the new 3-axis accelerometers and microchips available this should be easy for a hobbyist to build. </span><br />
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For more info about T-Hawks and their use look at some of these links:<br />
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<a href="http://www.thawkmav.com/downloads/T-Hawk_Data_Sheet.pdf">T-Hawk data sheet</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thawkmav.com/downloads/T-Hawk_Brochure.pdf">T-Hawk Sales Brochure</a><br />
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What the aircraft industry is saying:<br />
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<a href="http://www.thawkmav.com/downloads/1-28040893%20Eprint.pdf">Avionics - Aug 2010</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thawkmav.com/downloads/Aviation_Week_Eprint.pdf">Aviation Week & Space Technology - June 14/21 2010</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thawkmav.com/downloads/Unmanned_Vehicles_reprint.pdf">Unmanned Vehicles - Oct/Nov 2009</a><br />
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These links and more info (& video too) can be found at <a href="http://www.thawkmav.com/demos.php">Honeywell T-Hawk</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="blog_caption">passage </span><span class="blog_caption"> to a </span><span class="blog_caption">supermassive </span></span></span><br />
<span class="blog_caption" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;">black hole at the </span><span class="blog_caption" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;">center of a galaxy. </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A monster black hole devoured a Sun-like star, producing a long-lasting gamma ray flash. The star was likely destroyed because it wandered too close to its galaxy’s central black hole, located in the constellation Draco 4 billion light years away. Earth just happened to get in the way of this stream of gamma rays produced 4 billon years ago. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That 'flash' lasted for months and is still going on now. Gamma ray bursts usually flare up and end in a matter of seconds or milliseconds.</span>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-52311529651419844452011-06-20T06:16:00.001-04:002011-06-20T06:46:13.473-04:00The Alpocalypse is coming<div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The Alpocalypse is Coming!</span></em></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weird Al Yankovics new album is about to drop. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow the latest album from the Master in 5 years!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">[here is a sneak peek of the most talked about video of the year]</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.vevo.com/watch/weird-al-yankovic/perform-this-way-parody-of-born-this-way-by-lady-gaga/USZM21100078">Perform This Way (Parody of "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga) </a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-84166795922940336252011-06-10T22:00:00.004-04:002011-06-11T08:59:09.551-04:00Google Doodle Les Paul Guitar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-snSs3zrpG3M/TfLKny2vyOI/AAAAAAAAAGk/R5KC5kd3R9c/s1600/gdlp.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-snSs3zrpG3M/TfLKny2vyOI/AAAAAAAAAGk/R5KC5kd3R9c/s320/gdlp.bmp" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I've been having so much fun with this I almost didn't blog it today.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tune=IBBQIQkgVFCOUEIQRSjlEqEEEo4RCgFFKEESoBQQhFAqOEQJApQSjhEqGEIVBQISkgVFCOUEIRSCiQhEqEQUw4wCUkChCYBUUIRQShhEJKUMIlRAgjCKQUSEJIFRQjlHGIEAgJhKkRFBCJUgYoIRKkhFBKJEhIYFRAjlCGMIhggA">Beatles - Here Comes The Sun</a><br />
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</div>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-2280546526402978292011-06-08T12:35:00.004-04:002011-06-08T20:18:45.291-04:00Idiot finds life on Mars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em>...to bad he can't find one on Earth.</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Armchair Astronomer David Martines has claimed to have <strong><em><u>proven</u></em></strong> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">there is a space station on Mars via the use of “<a href="http://www.google.com/mars/"><span style="color: blue;">G</span><span style="color: red;">o</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #f1c232;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">o</span></span><span style="color: blue;">g</span><span style="color: #93c47d;">l</span><span style="color: red;">e</span> Mars</a>” </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">71 49' 19.73" N<br />
29 33' 06.53" W</td></tr>
</tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are all sorts of anomalies that take place in photography. My father was a photographer and cartographer and he taught me a lot and very well. I have even exploited some of those things in my own photographic work. Even digital photography is susceptible. The age of digital cameras has killed film and darkrooms and all the fun that went with them. It is a shame that more people haven't had their hands on real film and photo paper, or in developer, stop bath and fixer solutions. But that is their loss.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>"It looks like a linear streak artifact produced by a cosmic ray," said Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and the director of the Planetary Imaging Research Laboratory. McEwen is the principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), a powerful telescope currently orbiting Mars. "With space images that are taken outside our magnetosphere, such as those taken by orbiting telescopes, it's very common to see these cosmic ray hits. You see them on optical images and a lot of the infrared images too."</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is the 'discovery' video on You-Tube -> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZeDc8fubAA">Bio Station Alpha</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955215501534659994.post-10800539917824202222011-06-06T12:31:00.008-04:002011-06-07T12:58:34.551-04:00antimatter captured for 16 minutes<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VjPli0RxTGs/Tez8iboEQ8I/AAAAAAAAAGY/ITzcn1UEbKQ/s1600/antihydrogenx-inset-community.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VjPli0RxTGs/Tez8iboEQ8I/AAAAAAAAAGY/ITzcn1UEbKQ/s320/antihydrogenx-inset-community.jpg" width="211" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist's conception of an anithydrogen<br />
atom being released from the trap after<br />
1000 seconds. </td></tr>
</tbody></table><em><strong>Scientists have created and captured antimatter </strong></em><em><strong>for </strong></em><em><strong>study for 16 minutes.</strong></em><br />
They created the antihydrogen inside a stainless steel cylinder roughly 5 cm in diameter and 25 cm in length. They created a vacuum inside the bottle and chilled it to minus 269 C. The extreme cold slowed the newly formed antihydrogen, making it hard for it to speed away. And an extremely powerful magnet helped keep the anti-atoms in place.<br />
<div itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="255"><strong><em>The Universe is Asymmetrical</em></strong></div><div itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="255">After the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago there were <em>almost</em> equal amounts of matter and antimatter. After the matter - antimatter collisions and subsequent annihilation, there was probably slightly more matter left over, that's were the universe comes from.</div>KI4LLFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16965332568865107594noreply@blogger.com0