How to Communicate after an Apocalyptic Disaster
December 21, 2012 is just around the corner. A supposed cataclysmic event is to happen that day. Could doomsday be triggered by a shift in the magnetic poles, or perhaps some unstoppable airborne virus? Who knows! Either way you have to ask yourself, “Am I ready?” If the apocalypse happens in 2012 you don’t want to be caught with your pants down. You’ll need to be prepared. First things first, watch all the apocalyptic and zombie movies ever made. Including the foreign ones! You don’t want to be one of the few humans left not knowing what to do.
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mbedGC 1.1: Smaller and Sexier
The new mbedGC is in the house! Issues we had on the original were corrected and other improvements have been made to the newer version. Compare the new version on the right with the original on the left and you’ll see it’s now 35% smaller.
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mbedGC in Action
Finally! After 8 months of working on the video game console it’s “complete” (at least for the senior design presentation). Weeks ago the EagleCAD drawing of the game console was sent to a fabricator and once we received it the device was assembled. We notice there were a few issues with the board. Certain componets were connected incorrectly, but since it was our first PCB board these types of errors were expected and with a few greenwires the issues were fixed.
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