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In the latest Nuts and Volts there was a statement that JPEG may become obsolete, and while that may be true, if all things must pass, but I don't see something called HD-photo from Microsoft replacing it. What would Mac and other computers use? Jpeg, because the web is full of Jpeg, and unless one ...

In other words:

STATE 0 --- 1 --- 2 --- 3
IN- 0101 0101 0101 0101
OUT 0100 0100 0101 0100

IN WAVE _/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\_/\
OUT WAVE _/\___/\___/\_/\_/\__

Looks funny but might work.

My project was to help the police ticket OTHER people who tend to cause accidents, in the vicinity of the car, and do a small part to improve the safety of the car. Yours seems to be to wiretap your own driver "for safety and legal reasons". I'm not sure how I feel about that, except if yo...

Wow, you're right, I never saw that precise a term for this metric conversion. But so it is.

The silver-black screens with no backlights are STN , I think.
Those laptops are pre-pentium (386 or older) and probably really cheap on ebay.

Some of the older compact fluorescents actually have a small ballast coil and starter tube just like any other fluorescent. They're simpler and more reliable than what's in them now. (Yuck board with weird power supply.) I'm a fan of "cold cathodes", which to me seems to work more like neo...

Microcontroller: Have a medium sized RAM memory buffer as a LOOP to sample into. Maybe enough to hold a one-second loop. 8K perhaps. 1.0/1.6 = 5/8 so after writing 8 samples from input, read one sample to output and then skip 5 samples on the reading pointer. (Do not skip writing any input samples, ...

The spy-on-cars cam .... someone asked me to design it, and I did, for the purpose of recording nuisance behavior and license plates and sending it to the police. Example: Every day someone I know sees someone crash while talking on a cell phone, which is illegal here. Unfortunately only the police ...

"Being an over the air broadcast, the content owners have little control over what happens when its recieved, I would expect some sort of watermarking to be in the content stream such that only an appropriate hardware decoder can play it. #1 on the Lawyer hit list would be anyone who dares to p...

Forget the hocus-pocus ... just get a silver spoon and have some soup.

Put a tiny solar cell or photodiode on a plastic VU meter with a needle
that you might have found in an old tape deck, receiver, or battery tester.
Then touch it to the remote and push buttons, looking for the needle to wiggle.

I think brass tips exist, look like gold, and stay looking nice for a much longer time than others.

I'm surprised I couldn't find a Patent for an "ANY" key on PC keyboards.

But I found #7100312 ... "A Working Machine"
aka. Machine with a motor that does something useful.
Bill Gates pays no royalties because windows PCs definitely don't qualify.

Consider these effects... Visible red light such as from a laser can be used like x-rays in pulses under the following conditions when a camera shutter is open immediately after the pulse but then closed before blurry photons scattered inside a body reaches the sensor. We can all agree that red ligh...

I've seen this every time I've been in an airport... http://www.pcsympathy.com/gate.html?name=gallery2&g2_itemId=1273 more... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=airport+BSOD&btnG=Google+Search more... http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=airport%20BSOD&btnG=Google+Search&...