I have just read these series of articles about global warming on the website of Control magazine, they are written by Béla Lipták. I found them quite enlightning. This is the third. https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/controlling-the-future-part-3/ About the author: Béla Lipták Béla Lipták is an automation and safety consultant and editor of the Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH). He can […]
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I have just read these series of articles about global warming on the website of Control magazine, they are written by Béla Lipták. I found them quite enlightning: https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/controlling-the-future-part-1/ About the author: Béla Lipták Béla Lipták is an automation and safety consultant and editor of the Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH). He can be contacted at liptakbela@aol.com.
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 […]
A forgotten war There was a war that took place in 2020, and I am fairly sure you did not know much about it. After all, we were all caught in the middle of the Covid19 pandemic, so news about a small war declared between two little-known countries located in Southeast Asia, over the possession […]
An unexpected shortage You may have heard some news about the worldwide shortage of chips. Not potato chips, or wood chips. We are talking about integrated circuit chips, a.k.a. silicon semiconductor chips, like the ones you could find inside your PC, at least when manufacturers still allowed you to open the case without voiding your […]
There are other good things about Sweden, apart from köttbullar (Swedish meatballs) If you think that Sweden is just a place to find boxy Volvos and weird Saabs, then the following fact will surprise you: One of the three fastest production cars in the world was designed and built in Sweden. In a world dominated […]
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 things get so big, I don’t trust them at all. You want some control. You’ve got to keep it small” Peter Gabriel, D.I.Y, 1977, the “Scratch” album In 1968 the Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI or International Sport Commission), a branch of the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FIA or International Sports Car Federation), concluded […]
Things die… PCs eventually die. As with humans, this is a fact. No matter how much care we spend taking care of them or invest in upgrades, finally some vital component will fail, and the device will go to the heaven of nonfunctioning gadgets (trash). So, after 4 years of work, a mini-PC that I […]
Introducción El entorno de trabajo TIA Portal de Siemens es la herramienta preferida para la configuración y programación de los controladores Siemens más recientes. Es un entorno relativamente amigable, visualmente más atractivo que el tradicional Step 7, aun cuando los requerimientos de hardware son elevados si se desea trabajar con proyectos relativamente grandes. Y exige […]