Sometimes people say things that are both obvious and unexpectedly insightful. “Unexpected,” in the sense that I hadn’t thought of it myself—yet once I heard it, I was surprised it hadn’t already occurred to me. I’ll explain what kicked off my current cogitations in a moment. First, however, I’d like to waffle a bit, as is my wont.
I’m not sure when I first ran across the concepts of things like virtual reality and augmented reality. I think it may have been around the tail end of the 1960s when I read Way Station by Clifford D. Simak.
Simak’ … Read More → "Are Mixed Reality Theme Parks Headed Our Way?"
Welcome to our second annual International Women in Engineering Day Fish Fry podcast! My special guests are Sonja Brown from TDK, Chandana Tamma from Rehlko, and Sonja Ghelani from Texas Instruments. I sat down with each of these esteemed engineers and discussed their journeys into the world of high tech, … Read More → "Fish Fry Special Edition: 2025 International Women in Engineering Day"
My podcast guest this week is Vibheesh Bharathan, Director and Project Lead for PSOC 4 Multi-Sense at Infineon. Vibheesh and I chat all about the benefits of Infineon’s new PSOC 4 MCU family. We discuss the details of the Multi-Sense technology at the heart of these new MCUs and why innovative … Read More → "Multi-Sensing for the Next Generation of HMI Applications"
For reasons we need not go into here, I was just perusing a column on French phrases that people in France do not, in fact, use (I’m sure knowing this will come in handy one day).
The column in question was 9 French Phrases Native Speakers Never Use</ … Read More → "Eeek Alors! AI-Powered PCB Layout Is Here and It’s Awesome"
I’m sure I’ve asked you this before, but have you ever read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by the late, great Douglas Adams? If so, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s hard to beat the author’s own description of this tale … Read More → "Making Machine Vision Accessible and Affordable for Engineers, Educators, and Makers"
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