Monthly Archives: September 2011

TIL311 replacement

Posted on 2011-09-26 by M. Eric Carr

A modern replacement of the venerable-but-expensive TIL311 hex display. Continue reading →

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Musical Witchcraft

Posted on 2011-09-21 by M. Eric Carr

Tom Paxton uses dark magic to make a single opening note sound minor … or does he? Continue reading →

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Thoughts on LabVIEW

Posted on 2011-09-13 by M. Eric Carr

NI LabVIEW is very good at some things. It’s also spectacularly bad at others… Continue reading →

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Diamagnetic Levitation

Posted on 2011-09-11 by M. Eric Carr

Levitating a magnet without power or active controls, using the diamagnetic properties of bismuth. Continue reading →

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