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> This kind of approach doesn't work so well when the subjects that need to be learned don't lend themselves so well to exciting projects or even when the students don't get to sel…

I've taught in schools from all corners of San Francisco, and can't agree more with majority of what was said in this article, except maybe the money part*, I'll leave a footnote f…

Math not necessary being about numbers but concepts is something I'm really happy to see : ) in sibling comments on this article in HN.

Ive been hoping to find others interested in this vein of xrf for community lead detection would be more thab happy to connect.

well icp (inductively coupled plasma) is the gold standard (expensive but highly sensitive and used for heavy metals like lead in stuff). xrf can spot higher concrntrations, but on…

From my experiments making my own, got around 100W of power. For reference, a laptop is around 30watts, charging a cell phone around 5w, electric shavers, fans for air circulation,…

Andrew Zonenberg has a whole list of open projects for FPGAs on his wiki: https://github.com/azonenberg/openfpga/wiki There has been a lot of exciting work in the same repo for Sil…