From an article in the ACM TechNews, talking about silicon photonics for optical interconnects:
Sun engineer Ashok Krishnamoorthy says his company prefers to not have the light source on the chip, or even in the data center, because cooling is a problem.
Er, what? Taking the company name a bit too literally, perhaps… d-:
Last week, one of VUW’s resident Microsofties (a ‘Microsoft student partner’) spoke at Interface’s weekly meeting. At the end of the presentation, he gave away a few freebies. I got a rather cool (apart from the Microsoft branding) mini remote-control car. Ironically, when I got home, put batteries into it and tried it, it did not work — the steering worked fine, but it would not go forwards or backwards.
Fortunately, unlike Microsoft’s software products, it did not have a restrictive license agreement to prevent me from fixing it, so I took it apart and got it working.
I have recently built an infrared remote control receiver for my computer. There are photos and more information on the relevant page of my website.
I have made quite a few improvements to my lasertag system since my last post about it. Among other things, I have added an ammo. indicator LED, found a better box, and designed and built a ‘target’ unit intended to stand at a team base. For more information (and photos), see the relevant page on my website.
I have recently been working on making a lasertag game, using laser diodes from laser pointers, toy guns, PIC16F628A microcontrollers and various other parts, electronic and otherwise. For photos and more information, see the relevant page on my website.
Suggestions are welcome, but I make no guarantee of following them.
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