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This misses the NVIDIA Jetson/Orin/Thor line of GPU-enabled edge computers which are more comparable with Raspberry Pis. The Jetson Orin Nano Super is $250. Another feature which w…

A friend and I found a contractor to give us a couple of these lights in the Phoenix area. We traced the LEDs back to a Seoul Semiconductor Phosphor on-chip design. We still have a…

I had that same thought. I travel a bunch for work and would love to be able to wire up a RPi/Arduino remotely to a sensor or other device and run a test or two.

Deep dive into why streetlights across the US are failing.

Dr. Levenspiel came up in another thread about elephant curves. He tried for many years to get this article published on the aerodynamics of dinosaurs and how this might reflect on…

I have to plug Dr Octave Levenspiel. Levenspiel was a professor emeritus when I did my undergrad. He did much of the work on industrial fluidized beds among other things. The eleph…

I used this all the time. Sad to see it go.

Found the complaint in PACER if anyone is interested in reading. https://www.scribd.com/document/420311557/Complaint-19-06570

I worked for a long time as a chemical engineer making cadmium containing quantum dots. We had many discussions inside the company about complying with the EPA's TSCA regulations. …

Great analysis. I wonder how a semi-log graph would look.

I have used Gusto and Trinet at prior companies a few years back. Does anyone have recent experience and recommendations for benefits service/software for a 10-20 person startup?

"A study published in 2007 from the US National Cancer Institute, for instance, found that men that took multivitamins were twice as likely to die from prostate cancer compared to …

Could be neat if they become the defacto way to launch and sell opensource hardware. I'd be interested to see if that pencils out as a viable/scalable business.

Great contrast to the OP. They sound like a highly competent team, making a better "coffee".

LoRa is a really cool technology. We are incorporating it into our networking stack/ hardware module. From field testing, we've seen about 4-6 miles line of sight, and about a mile…

Try out Low Power Labs Monteino with the HopeRF, RFM95 LoRa module. The radio library is lacking but you can get up and running quickly. https://lowpowerlab.com If you want somethi…

Another article on the same topic: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2969396/internet-of-thi... "Filament looks really interesting. It would be possible to dismiss this fledglin…

"To build its technology, Filament is using a series of protocols that include the blockchain transaction database behind Bitcoin; BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer file sharing…

Full report: http://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/dotcom/Insights/Bus...