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 […]
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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My photography portfolio
I have always liked photographies, they are like small windows into the past. But for most of my life photography was a cumbersome method of practicing art. You needed a camera, film rolls, explosimeters, flashes, and if you really wanted to get the results you were looking for, you had to learn how to develop […]
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Cool car of the week
“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 […]
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My friend George
The first time I met my friend George was when we assisted Kindergarten. We always seemed to be the most unmatched couple of buddies that ever existed: I was small, thin, used glasses thanks to early myopia, the proto example of a nerd when nerddom wasn’t cool.He was cool, tall (always, even today, one head […]
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Cool Car of the week
“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 […]
July 2021 update: If you remember those dreadful days (they looked dreadful then) of May 2018, when the SyFy channel canceled the beloved series The Expanse, you will also remember the #SaveTheExpanse campaign to make Bezo’s Amazon save the series from oblivion. I did my little contribution by building a 50 cm long papercraft replica […]
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The Expanse is saved!!!!!!!!
In case you hadn’t heard…@JeffBezos #SavedTheExpanse pic.twitter.com/alW5hSw1my — Wes Chatham (@weschatham) May 26, 2018