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The uAvionix EchoESX [1] claims 4W continuous and with antenna probably adds 400g (0.8lb.) WindBorne claims "12+ days typical flight, with demonstrated capability for 75+ day missi…

It's possible it never made it into production; but when I was helping to commission a 4 rack "supercomputer" circa 2010 we used APC's in-row cooling (which did glycol exchange to …

For it's 30th anniversary, the BBC released a free to play version: https://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2game It is not easy; but there are hints! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3t…

In the same category of command line program guidelines: https://clig.dev/

This sounds fun to play with and get feet wet in HDL, but it's only a lattice ice40, I have no idea what you'd seriously do with this. Usually ice40 are used as glue logic, or mult…

Could be struck by a micrometeorite, or if they were doing a station keeping maneuver something could have gone wrong with a thruster. (Apparently the first in it's class Intelsat-…

I've had to get a medallion before to move a small retirement account and there were two things I very much did not like about the process: (1) Most institutions require you to hav…

Altium is about $10k to start and then $2.5k ~ 3.5k per year depending on plan.

This style of capitalisation is called Title Case [1] and is quite common in English print media. There are quite a few automated tools to convert back and forth, maybe a future si…

allocortech | Software or Electrical Engineer | Waynesboro, VA | Prefer Local | https://www.allocor.tech/about/work-with-us/ allocortech is a small company (14 people) building con…

A small counterpoint; structures made of a weathering steel, like COR-TEN, don't need to be painted. The trade offs include ensuring the welds weather at the same rate as the struc…

While the work itself is interesting, I'm also super curious to know how this was typeset. Did NASA have special typewriters with common math symbols, or go through some office wit…