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SNUG San Jose - 2008

Synopsys Users Group Conference 2008
San Jose, CA
March 31 - April , 2008
Santa Clara Convention Center
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ICCAD 2008

26th International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
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Robotics put to good use…

Just another frivolous post, an update to my last post about a processor embedded in a golf club - I jokingly suggested that maybe they’d come up with something to make me play better guitar.  As if they’d been listening, a couple days later, I saw this article in EETimes, about a self-tuning guitar.
Although a [...]

Using technology to improve our lives

I saw this article and video come across my EETimes RSS feed - on using a Freescale Coldfire microcontroller embedded in a golf club to monitor swing and impact. Pretty slick. Now, I wonder if I could design something to embed into a guitar neck to figure out what note I intended to [...]

We’re all connected - now let’s talk…

Some days I wonder where I’d be without the internet. I know that sounds pathetic, but hear me out. But for the shear amount of trash winding its way through the internet, there’s a also a massive wealth of information available on any given subject. Being an old-timer that started my career when Compuserve [...]