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10 New Uses for Newspaper | 101 New Uses for Everyday Things | Real Simple
“Newspaper, by design, is a very absorbent product, because it has to absorb ink. But that also means it is equipped to absorb all sorts of moisture, including moisture and the resulting odors found in shoes and vegetable drawers," says Chris Morrissey, vice president of marketing for Sun Chemical, in Northlake, Illinois, the world’s largest printing-ink manufacturer. 3. Pack delicate items. Wrap frames and figurines with several pieces of newspaper, then crumple the remaining sections to fill extra space in the box.
By David Maliniak, May 25, 2012 Building a modular test strategy can provide great flexibility in capabilities, or the system can be tailor-made for specific requirements. Often a hybrid approach encompassing traditional box instruments is best. Here are some basics to consider in formulating an approach that will work best for you.
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Raspberry Pi | An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!
Update 23.45pm Mar 30: minor changes to the article to reflect the fact that recent versions of the BeagleBoard-xM appear to have acquired a CE mark. Update, 8.40pm Mar 28: element14 have put out a new update to their FAQ , enlarging on what’s happening with CE compliance. It’s well worth a read – head on over!Hello, and welcome to another exciting edition of "More New Products"! It's been a couple weeks since we've announced new products, so we have a few to talk about. As you've probably noticed, we do a lot with LEDs. Here we have the Tri-Color LED Breakout . It uses our 10mm super 'my eyes are burning' bright LEDs with a transistor on each. Connect each LED to a pin on your microcontroller and you have a simple controllable RGB light source.
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The SeeedStudio DSO Nano Pocket 1MHz Digital Storage Oscilloscope is an upgraded version of the previous Nano, it is not a brand new model but there's still a lot of improvements. The DSO Nano v2 is a Digital Storage Oscilloscope designed for basic electronic engineering tasks. Within its smart shell, the device runs on ARM Cortex™-M3 32 bit platform, provides basic waveform monitoring with extensive functions.
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This circuit is how [John Tsiombikas] makes his cheap 3D shutter glasses work with a Linux machine .
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Yahoo, this is the 200th name the thing contest, thanks to everyone who participates each week!
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We get old. It’s a fact of life that smacked me in the face recently. Until about a year ago, my eye sight has been excellent.
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Absolutely epic maker tale from former Atari dev Scott Williamson, who writes:
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I recently had a batch of 10 pcb’s for an ongoing project fabricated with iteadstudio pcb prototyping service. They guarantee 100% electrical test on their product page. One month later I receive the pcb’s and decided to watch them under a microscope for inspection. I wasn’t particularly checking for the e-test, I was more interested in seeing if the small pads and vias look good. I was however surprised when I did not find the small marks on each pad which are a good indicator if the e-test has been performed or not. From my knowledge in low volume production e-test is being made with a flying-probe type machine and as the name suggests the flying probes would leave small marks in each pad where they touched to make electrical contact.
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Eagle is a great cross-platform, free-for-non-commercial-use tool for many of us designing own own circuit boards. But it has a pretty glaring omission: the ability to import vector artwork to use as board outlines, logos, etc. You can import bitmaps via the finicky “import_bmp.ulp” ULP add-on, but bitmaps can’t work for board outlines. So we struggle with Eagle’s rudimentary vector drawing tools or have boring rectangular or circular boards. I think I’ve found a way to robustly transfer vector artwork from Illustrator to Eagle.
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