Declining science funding in the US
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Monthly archives: August, 2013
Pixy for easy Arduino machine vision
Posted in Hardware
Carnegie Mellon is a magical place for robotics, and their CMUcam, an open source hardware project for machine vision, has recently culminated in Pixy. This is a wildly funded Kickstarter project (funded at 400-500%…
Nature subscriptions are cheap right now
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You just pay the impact factor right now for a subscription to Nature.
Converting them all into USD for comparison:
US: $38 (19% of the usual price)
Europe: $51 (18% of the usual price)
UK and rest of…
Touchscreen display for Arduino and more
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4D Systems sells screens and touchscreens for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other systems. Importantly, the code is portable (mentioned in the video above), they have good support, and the hardware plugs right into the boards. It doesn’t get much easier than this. They have resellers…
Actually, a pretty good sale
This isn’t an advertisement. I wasn’t asked to post this. I just want to let you all know in case it’s useful. Newport is having a sale on optics and many of the discounts are pretty…
X-ray crystallography of cookies
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This is perhaps the most exhilarating patent I’ve ever read:
Search for patent 4455333 at this link.
Here’s a excerpt:
When the cookie dough enters the oven, the water in the dough is saturated with sugar and appears to be evenly distributed throughout the dough. As the water temperature increases…