Standard disclaimer applies – even though the trip is for work, no work will be discussed. Reasons: you don’t care, it’s not interesting and this way I don’t have to be careful that I only say things that are publicly available information. As it turns out, I have nothing to… Continue reading
Finally it’s OK for me to post about this since it’s been officially announced. I’ll tread lightly and not give any details beyond what has been formally released to these guys, but trust me, this is an awesome moment in Matt’s Life. Gizmodo: Dell Latitude with Wireless Charging Gizmodo: Leak… Continue reading
On February 16th, Josh and I took off from Grand Rapids with a final destination of Shanghai, China. Our mission was to spend a little over a week serving as support for a customer’s supplier’s plant trial. The work details are largely confidential, but conveniently also rather uninteresting to most… Continue reading
Going out for dinner while on work travel can be absolutely fantastic. Tonight was a fine example with some nice filet mignon and scallops. It also makes me feel rather gluttonous, not really because we ate that much, but because it cost 4-5 times what a meal really should. But… Continue reading
I noticed my laptop was hotter than normal and it occurred to me that that just might be the processor. So, I opened up the task manager and low and behold: Switcher CAD pegging both cores at 100% Damn it’s nice to have a computer that can run this stuff…. Continue reading
The Nevada Lightning Laboratory has experimented with Nicola Tesla’s methods of wireless power transmission to push 800 Watts over 5 meters, besting MITs mark of 60W over 2 meters last year. http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/12/10/181229.shtml It bothers me that the general public sees this as a competing technology with eCoupled, which is what… Continue reading
So, here in list form is recorded some of the fun of visiting Taiwan for a week. Additions as well as an actual literary rundown may happen. General: Typhoon – disappointing. The gov’t got all worried after underestimating the last one, so this one was all the rage… at least… Continue reading
Wednesday through Friday was the 2008 Magnetics Conference put on by webcom in Denver, CO. Wednesday was the magnetics boot camp, which was pretty much a one day crash course in magnetics. In theory, this makes up for the fact that neither Josh nor I have any magnetics classes or… Continue reading
Monday I was in Novi for a work meeting with one of our suppliers. Six of us went down from Grand Rapids and 9 or so of them came up from Ohio. Lots of discussion on where we stand and where we are going as far as eCoupled building blocks…. Continue reading