If you don’t, we’ll keep posting pictures of Chris in silly hats in my lab. We’re still looking for submissions for Workplace (and now Work bench) of the week. The molten salt method of storing energy could really help.Dave likes the plan in Australia to be 100% renewable by 2020.Planning $500 million in investment in the next few years…wean everyone off oil and some of their adversaries have less money! Renewable energy investment is politically/militarily driven in Isreal.Medical devices are capable of very small form factors, such as this wand/iPhone combo for ultrasound.New gesture software for the TI MSP430 Chronos watch.Dave calls bullshit, Chris calls why not dude. Dave & Chris butt heads over whether or not it will be possible to make your own practical chips at home in the future.

This video is the first in the series and explains the background of radar. Trying to make a Hot Wheels radar gun into a 10 GHz local oscillator. Jeri has a new video up about her (TSA Body Scanner) backscatter project.In an age of increasing hardware abstraction, is it better to be a generalist or a specialist?.Mentions how MakerBot started out of NYCresistor ( and the BotCave!) A second edition of the NPR story on Hackerspaces played over the weekend.Perhaps could take a look at it and make more sense of it? Why not charge by the layer instead of the geography?

CadSoft EAGLE needs a new pricing structure.

IEEE Salary Service isn’t included with membership fees? What am I paying for? How are they any better than an eBook company?.

An applications engineering job working with Labview requires a PhD?.

Check it out if interested in winning free software and stuff.Shoutouts They have a new contest in conjunction with Ponoko (thanks to for the link).

To Google Sketchup! For offering electro-nerds the opportunity to do 3D modeling (easily!).

Rich Hoeg of The Northstar Nerd, linked to us from his podcast page! Be sure to check out the others on there!.

Simple cad programs to draw garages