Archive
IRZ Tech archive, page 8.
PSU-EXT sits between a bench supply and the circuit under test, adding measurement, protection, SCPI and automation. Its manufacturing files are already public even though the product is still in pre-launch.
FLiPP replaces the metal stencil used for RGB OLEDs with photolithography. That idea already exists elsewhere; LG’s more interesting claim is applying it to a full Gen 8.5 mother glass.
Ken Shirriff reconstructed the Philips TDA7000 from a photograph of its die. His method turns patterns in silicon into transistors, then into a schematic, one functional block at a time.
A Motorola 68000 can drive real PCI cards, but only because an FPGA translates timing, byte order, addressing and interrupts between two incompatible buses.
Kevin Lynagh is not automating PCB design. His KiCad helpers automate the awkward moment when he has to remember how his entire workflow worked last time.
Ice Dart is not designed to hover above an iceberg. It absorbs impact, drives eight spines into the ice and uses reverse thrust to become a fixed sensor on slopes approaching 60 degrees.
Two joysticks force an operator to translate intent into four machine joints. MIT's World-Space Interface copies the excavator geometry so software can perform that translation instead.
MIT carves empty space into a swollen hydrogel, then shrinks it. The 2,000× figure is volume; roughly 13× linear shrinkage pushes features below 100 nm.
Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle is headed to geostationary orbit carrying dual robotic arms that can inspect, service and extend satellites never designed to be repaired.
FlowForm prints passive reflectors for roughly $2 each and uses them to create new mmWave paths through a room. The measured gain is real, but much narrower than “Wi-Fi twice as fast.”