Single Crystal Superalloys. On Friday, I wrote about the development of amorphous or “glassy” metal alloys, in which the atoms are packed together with no regular crystal structure.
At the microscopic level, almost all metals are made of crystal grains, which can be bigger or smaller depending on how the metal has been heat treated. Amorphous alloys, recall, are extremely unusual among metals because they can be cast without forming crystal grains at all. At the opposite end of the spectrum are single crystal (SC or SX) alloys, which are mixtures of metals that can be cast in such a way that the entire object is essentially a single giant “grain,” i.e. one continuous crystal. Among minerals like quartz, large objects composed of a single crystal are fairly common; you also may have seen the large ingots of artificially-grown single-crystal silicon, known as “boules,” from which wafers are cut to make microchips and other semiconductor devices. Related. Events Guide, January 14, 2012. Apple And Samsung Reportedly Working On Smartphone Waterproofing Technology. Advertisements A week ago we brought you the news that a little-known company named Liquipel had developed a technology enabling you to get your beloved gadget waterproofed for a mere 59 dollars.
You may have cringed a great deal to see the demonstration video in which an iPhone 4S was immersed into liquid – it certainly sent a shudder down our gadget-loving spines here at Redmond Pie. Fortunately, it was doused in a repellent formula which prevented the water from trickling through to the mainboard and.. well, you know the rest! Now it looks as though such technology may soon be the done-thing across the greater gadgetsphere, with a like-minded company reportedly talking to Apple and Samsung about applying the technology at production stage. HzO has developed an almost identical product called WaterBlock which was paraded before a procession of ardent geeks at last week’s Consumer Electronics show.
Interested to see how it all works? You may also like to check out: OnLive Brings Console-level Gaming To Google TV. Advertisements Take two technologies that have yet to really get off the ground and mash them together.
Robot takes voice commands via open source CSR. MAKE Interviews MakeIt Labs’ Adam and Joe About Shutdown. Hackerspaces have been flying under the radar for a few years, but now it seems as if they’re starting to encroach on the public consciousness in both good and bad ways.
In the latter category, recently Nashua, NH’s MakeIt Labs was shut down for code violations. Recently I emailed Adam Shrey and Joe Schlesinger of MakeIt Labs to find out what was going on. If you’d like to help out the space, you can make a tax deductible donation via the link on on their website. JB: Why do you think you were inspected? Was it just a routine peek or was there something else? Adam: We had an article done on us in the Lifestyle section of the Sunday paper from a neighboring town that caught the attention of the inspectors. The Switch to Electric Car Kits. Recently, I visited Switch Vehicles, which is near the MAKE office in Sebastopol.
They have produce a three-wheel electric car, which will be sold as a kit later this year. I met the founders, Peter Oliver, Jim McGreen, and Mark Perlmutter in what was formerly a Ford dealership and now is occupied by a variety of makers, mechanics, and entrepreneurs. Their goal is to connect with makers and carve out a new DIY niche in the electric car market. Peter, who is an engineer and programmer, began teaching a class in electric car conversions at the Santa Rosa Junior College.
People & Events. Electronics. Open hardware multimeter concept. The Top 100 Websites of 2011. With plenty of favorites and new sites to explore, here's our annual look at the best the Web has to offer.
What makes a great website? There's a lot that goes into one these days. Universal appeal, good design, and useful features are just the beginning of the list of essentials. They're also the things we take into account first when we dive into evaluating sites for our yearly list of the Top 100 Websites. Our list of Classic websites remains much the same as last year, though there are some sites that are making the list for the first time (hello, Quora!). The Undiscovered portion of the list—new (or newish) sites that have never been on this list—seems to get a little smaller every year.
So read, explore, enjoy, and discuss. Reviewing Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life. I think it’s safe to say that nearly everyone who’s had to use email on the job has used . I was one of many people who learned just enough about it to get by, and never thought of it as anything more than an email program that could also print calendars. My boss knew less about than I did, so I always printed out the departmental calendars for her. So, imagine my surprise when I saw the title of this book! Using for time management and organization? This, I had to see.