The Amazing Girl Has anyone seen this? It was just on Americas Got Talent tv show? It's absolutely amazing! This video alone already has over 5 million hits on YouTube. She's a 10 year old girl with an amazing voice. Her name is Jackie Evancho, and she sings Opera, "O Mio Babbino Caro" -->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPITHzdUUDkAnd another recent appearance [...]
Website gobbles life After my last post early today I found that every page on my website here was producing about 130 or more html errors! I don't know where the extra code came from, maybe it's a bug in WP, but it took a good part of the day to fix most of the errors. Search engines [...]
Hue MCU efficiency meter update 7 Can't believe I'm working on Labor day. 8-O The new software was just uploaded / flashed to the MCU dev board. This parallel port programmer that cost $15 is really wacky. Sometimes it seems like it takes a good 10 to 15 minutes to warm up. It keeps giving upload errors, but after awhile [...]
Happy Read a Book day! Today is Read a Book day. It's the day everyone around the world takes some personal "me" time, gets a nice book, relaxes in a good old chair or couch or bed, and dives into a book. Enjoy!
Happy Labor day! Labor day, also known as workingman's holiday, is the day in honor of the worker. It's a holiday dedicated to you and everyone in respect and appreciation for the work you do in or outside your home.The first Labor day was celebrated in New York City in 1882. It's also viewed as the official end [...]
Happy Fight Procrastination day! Today is the day that everyone puts an end to procrastination. So please take action, and do it now. For all those endless people who say they've been replicating the TOR for ages, come on, LOL.
Hue MCU efficiency meter update 6 It's all looking much better now. After a lot of pretesting I learned that the differential circuit was non-linear by unacceptable amounts, but it's all working great now after a lot of circuit redesigns. Last night I updated the MCU software and added more features. It will be pretty cool. Click the joystick up, and [...]
Mysterious battery part 2 In continuing from the previous post, another incident that I just recalled is when taking measurements on the Hue device, and within a reasonably short period of time (if I recall correctly) an area surrounding the the magnetic cores was obviously chilled. It's difficult to explain because my hand did not have to touch anything. [...]
Input: ~ 180 mW total. 170 mW of that 180 mW is joule heating from electrical wire resistance, thus leaving 10 mW for the motor. Output: ~ 280 mW from one pick up coil. By my calculations the heat produced by this motor due to bearing and air drag is 2 to 10 watts.
The Hue device is my excess energy magnetic design, still in development stage. It has obtained 120% efficiency, but there is what I refer to as the unknown effect, which consists of the unstable effect and the disturbance effect. More experimental data is needed to understand what is occurri