Q-switching for plants – some lasers do this thing where they only are on for a short pulse every very small time interval in order to take full advantage of the gain medium (stuff that does the lasing) and I think plants could do the same thing. This summer I want to try growing lots [...]
Ramzi got back from UC: Boulder and it sounds great. I want to go there for a PhD now! I think MEMS based optical computing would be a good set of skills for the future. Me and Ramzi see ourselves as the equivalent of 1930′s era electrical engineers. I kinda hate “god’s country” out there, [...]
All the scientist’s studies can not change being an idiot. The TLC5940 LED driver chip – the bane of my existence – works now. That would have been useful last quarter when I really could have used them working for my senior design project instead of having microcontrollers (little computer on a chip) power the [...]