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2023-11-14 Amsec, Gary Lorenz, John Darjany – history of campus card

I finally found a bit of history about Gary Lorenz. He and I were high school friends. In 1972 he and John Darjany founded a company, Amsec, to make a “campus card system” for California Polytechnic University, Pomona. In 1974, Amsec was purchased by R.D. Products. A brief history of the campus card industry This

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2023-11-12 Tesla To Integrate New Grok AI Assistant In Its EVs, according to the CEO.

“”Tesla is going to integrate Elon Musk’s newly launched Grok AI assistant in its electric vehicles, according to the CEO.”” We could surmise that Tesla would have to keep up with the Alexas and Siris, and come out with their own version of a voice response system. This will help remove the distraction of fiddling

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2023-11-10 Joint Electronics Type Designation System

Here is a wealth of information about much of the electronics that is used by government entities especially the military. You can find out what the system is for data processing hardware. This used to be called JAN – Joint Army Navy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Electronics_Type_Designation_System

2023-10-31 Tesla Prevails In Wrongful Death Lawsuit

In a 9 to 3 jury trial. Tesla prevails in first Autopilot wrongful-death suit

2023-10-22 Do-it-yourself Power Strips – True Story

We used similar “homemade” outlets on extension cords – we must’ve had more than a hundred around campus. But the fire inspectors wrote us up for using them in permanent locations under desks. We had to change them to commercial power strips. But I set up a temporary registration and add/drop classes area every semester,

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2023-10-11 Tesla’s Virtual Machine Mode, Autobidder, Powerhub, Opticaster, &c.

Links to several of Tesla’s energy storage products. VMM explained. There are many critics who say that Renewable energy will always need ‘baseload’ generation – thermal power plants. But they are being proven wrong by these new inventions that emulate baseload generation with software. Tesla says (quote) “”As more wind and solar power replace fossil

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2023-10-03 Perseverance Mars Rover Hi Res Image

Mars 2020 Rover AKA Perseverance in High Resolution and detailed. Full Resolution link ( No Facebook Compress ) below https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/original_images/jpegPIA23312.jpg Excellent closeup image. It looks like 10 or mor kg of Kapton tape wrapped around the cables. But the worker is putting in red and blue cables that are not covered in Kapton. So it

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2023-09-29 Calculate Resistance From Color Code

Something that beginners can put on their desktop. http://nonlinear.eecs.berkeley.edu/chaos/ResistanceCalculator/resistor.htm

2023-09-27 Hard Disk Drives – A Hundred Plus Disassembled

Pozi-drive – Is that what they call them? Maybe this will bring back memories. I was waiting in the checkout line at the computer store and saw a kit of, I don’t know, maybe a hundred different screwdriver bits and a cheap handle. None of them come with documentation, but the tips are there for

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2023-09-23 Tesla Dojo Explained, BMW Partners With AWS

This article starts out briefly explaining Tesla’s Project Dojo. Lots of skepticism, I see here. I think some of these skeptics should just hold their tongues and wait and see what happens. It may take longer than what they think it’s going to take, but eventually they will get to level four, maybe level five

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