When I was an 8-year-old kid, my grandfather called and invited me to listen to his new record. It was a vinyl recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I don’t remember which version was or what orchestra performed it, or which director was at the helm. All those details were meaningless for that 8-year-old […]
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Given my current fascination with scale modeling, I got a set of Polish made papercraft templates that will enable anybody with enough patience to build a 1:200 scale model of a Fletcher.
Some historical background In my last article, I mentioned the avoirdupois pound, but I avoided any side story about this measurement unit to focus on the horsepower story. But after researching its origins and evolution, I discovered, IMHO, a fascinating story. The avoirdupois system is a system for the measurement of weight developed in the […]
Like everybody else with a broadband internet connection, I spend an embarrassing amount of time watching YouTube videos. Shame on me. The only redeeming factor of my worthless habit is that the videos I like to watch are usually about stuff I like; history, science, engineering, planes, cars, astronomy, space, computers, well you get the […]
Texto original por Mirko Torrez Contreras Hace un tiempo atrás, como parte de un viaje de capacitación y certificación sobre redes PROFINET auspiciado por la firma Indu-sol , tuvimos la interesante experiencia de participar en un trabajo de ampliación y montaje de nuevos segmentos de red PROFIBUS DP en una empresa ubicada cerca de Hamburgo, […]
The first PITC/PICC (PROFIBUS & PROFINET INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND COMPETENCE CENTER) located in Argentina started its operations in May 2017, with a Certified PROFIBUS DP PA Engineer course. Since that first time experience we have hosted two Certified PROFINET Engineer courses, a Certified PROFIBUS DP PA Installer course, a Certified PROFINET Installer course and finally, […]
Recientemente certificada por PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) como Centro de Entrenamiento y de Competencia (PITC/PICC) para las tecnologías de buses de campo PROFIBUS® y PROFINET®, la empresa AUTEX S.A. acerca al mercado latinoamericano un espacio destinado a brindar soporte técnico, capacitación, certificación, asesoramiento y servicios de diagnóstico preventivo y predictivo para redes basadas en […]
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A collection of drawings
How to change the world? Let the children play with it now, so they do not beak it later…