A young fellow was asking about building flash dryers a few weeks back. He wanted to build his own flash dryer, and a lot of the screen printing guys were coming down a bit hard on him. Having designed a number of these over the years *, I thought I’d share a few bits of [...]

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No doubt disturbing for the user, but pretty much the norm for an EMC engineer during design. In a nutshell, the PDA is emitting signals such that the Oven is receptive to them, and as such is turning the broiler on high. Whats interesting about this case, is the two devices worked well for 3 [...]

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Twitter is an interesting communications tool for sure. Yet, its efficiency in human communication, as well as relationship building are limited. Some background and bluesky ideas for a voice based twitter are presented. Relationships A twitter newbie has an initial barrier to overcome, being they are not known, and that anyone we know, doesnt know [...]

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Their is a saying in the VC world of eating ones own dogfood. Ie, if your product is as good as you say it is, then by all means you should be totally immersed in it personally, and that includes being  power users. Far too many web designers, and SEO firms do not eat their [...]

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