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Engineer makes light-up business cards with 555 timer, proves PCB skills
Jun 9th 2012, 15:09

Engineer makes light-up business cards with 555 timer, proves PCB skills

Sure, there have been some pretty creative variations on the standard paper business card, but if you're looking to make a career in electronics engineering, card stock isn't necessarily the best option for material. Such was the case for one student, who had the canny idea to make a card that demonstrates his printed circuit board know-how. He used a 555 timer that outputs a clock to the LEDs on the biz card, and placing a nine-volt battery on the terminals sets off the mini light show. See for yourself in the video below.

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Engineer makes light-up business cards with 555 timer, proves PCB skills originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jun 2012 11:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink Adafruit  |  sourceCody Shaw  | Email this | Comments

Visualized: Swiss newspaper goes digital, prints front page in binary
Jun 9th 2012, 14:23

Visualized: Swiss newspaper goes digital, prints front page in binary

Those newspaper types, give them an idea and they don't half run with it. Swiss (Zurich) daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung just went digital, and to celebrate thought it'd go whole hog and print the entire front page (bar the essentials) in binary. Crazy. We've not had chance to decode it all just yet, but if there was a day to be breaking bad news to the city, today might be it.

Visualized: Swiss newspaper goes digital, prints front page in binary originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink The Next Web  |  sourceNZZ  | Email this | Comments

Droid RAZR HD lands on the bench, shows off Snapdragon S4 in continued striptease
Jun 9th 2012, 13:14

Droid RAZR HD lands on the bench, shows off Snapdragon S4 in continued striptease

Sometimes it can feel like you're being sold a book one page at a time. The latest in the Droid RAZR HD's story comes via some benchmarks. A NenaMark2 report clearly shows what claims to be the Verizon phone with a Qualcomm Adreno 225 GPU. Not the most exciting plot twist, but this does, by association, reveal that it's a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 running the show, as rumors have been suggesting. The resolution (1196 x 720) and Android version (4.0.4) also got an outing, with an overall score on the test of 59.1. Ready for the next chapter? We guess we'll just have to wait.

Droid RAZR HD lands on the bench, shows off Snapdragon S4 in continued striptease originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jun 2012 09:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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