Design

Anybody know a decent scanner that works in Linux?
Anybody know a decent scanner that works in Linux? Preferably not Canon. ... 30 Mar 2010 12:46

Sharp RGBY Televisions
Re: Sharp RGBY Televisions On Mar 29, 2:50 pm, Robert Baer <robertb...(a)localnet.com> wrote: RB > Salesmanship..at its "finest"... RB > If you are really good, you can sell a RB > refrigerator to an isolated Eskimo... Thanks miso, Martin and Robert. That's why I asked. I was wondering if there was some new c... 30 Mar 2010 21:51

Sharp RGBY Televisions
Is there any truth to their claim that adding Yellow to RGBY enables them to represent colors that RGB cannot? Are Yellows hard to produce with RGB Displays? ... 29 Mar 2010 04:46

Yes
What we have here, is a failure to communicate! ... 29 Mar 2010 15:52

Through Hole vs. Surface Mount
I have just completed a designing a board that has 5 16 pin ICs. I was planing on etching and drilling myself, but after my last project took for ever to drill far fewer holes, I was considering going surface mount. I am only planing to make three at first. Should I stick to through hole for the ease of hand sol... 4 Apr 2010 02:51

NiCad batteries not in use for a long time/discharged
Any NiCad battery experts out there? For a NiCad battery pack that has not been in use for a long time, like a year, and has discharged well below the point of operating the circuit it was powering, what is the best way to restore it to use? Is charging it in the normal manner good enough, or are a couple of charge... 31 Mar 2010 21:03

Health care update
At least Obama is great at something, the great reneger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdKmc9aBELM RogerN ... 28 Mar 2010 11:15

don't Fail to miss 'fourteen'
the Ever-so Amusing new album from yoar old freand 14! http://www.littleboxes.nl/the14thdisciple ... 28 Mar 2010 07:53

Strange waveform
So how about this waveform then? ftp://panteltje.com/pub/strange_waveform_img_1885.jpg ... 30 Mar 2010 15:00

320F2811/2812 use part of the program flash as a data flash
Can the a section of the program flash be written to, by the embedded code, for storing things like calibration data that would are loaded serially once the device is in service? I need these to be loaded via the SCI or SPI and written to internal non-volatile memory. These valued may change over the life of t... 28 Mar 2010 13:25