Yesterday was Tuesday the 13th. For most of the world, Friday the 13th is the traditional bad luck day. But for the majority of Spanish-speaking people, Tuesday the 13th is the ominous one. The fear of the number 13th has a scientific name: “triskaidekaphobia”.The fear of the Friday the 13th is called “paraskevidekatriaphobia”. Apparently, its […]
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When digital technology became available, the idea of improving the 4-20 mA signal became the goal for every major instrumentation supplier. Using newly available cheap microprocessors, manufacturers developed various techniques to include additional information to be encoded digitally into the 4-20 mA current signal loop. As far as I can remember, the three major contenders that attempted to do this were Foxboro, with its FoxCom protocol, Yokogawa with its Brain protocol and Rosemount with the HART (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) protocol.
An Alpine is a car made by the Société des Automobiles Alpine SAS, a French racing and sports car manufacturer established in 1955 in the city of Dieppe, located in the Normandy region in the north of France. Dieppe is also known for the Dieppe Raid in WW II. On August 19th, 1942, the Allies […]
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“The machine of a dreamSuch a clean machineWith the pistons a pumpin’Аnd the hubcaps all gleam” Queen, I’m in love with my car, A night at the opera, 1975 A missing Stratos is found A few days ago, I found a story about the recovery of a Lancia Stratos HF rally car that had been […]
Until a few days ago, the majority of the current Trump administration actions and policies affected mostly US citizens. Last week’s Middle East and Europe trip was troubling for other reasons, such as the “tremendous” arms sale to Saudi Arabia, a country really as far away from the democratic ideals of the USA Founding Fathers […]
An interesting way to explain the benefits that could be obtained from the integration of IT developments into manufacturing….
It can be done, it’s a matter of choices…
How to change the world? Let the children play with it now, so they do not beak it later…
A disruptive vision of the world, that leaves behind classic concepts of nationalism and geography. A fresh point of view that everybody interested on our future should consider:.[ted id=2475 lang=en]
A couple of days ago, a Pulse post written by Anthony Scaramucci caught my attention. The post can be found here. The reason why it interested me was because I live in Argentina, one of the countries mentioned in the post. The other reason was the mention of the so called Monroe’s doctrine that has usually […]