50th anniversary of lunar landing
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing, I am dedicating this week’s column to rerunning the local...
Year: 2019
Apollo: giant leaps in technology
The Apollo lunar missions resulted in what I believe to be some of the giant leaps in technology over the...
Space travel pre-1969
This week, let’s look back at the rocketry technology that sent us to moon on July 20, 1969. The times...
Apollo 11 Computer System
Many people believe the computer systems of the Apollo 11 space craft are ancient and little can be learned from...
Amateur Radio
In honor of the upcoming Amateur Radio Day celebration Saturday, June 22 in Texas County between noon and 5 p.m....
Television broadcast signals
Last week we talked about radio broadcast signals and the difference between AM and FM signals. This week I thought...
Radio Signals
My six-year-old son Obie was riding in the car with me Saturday night and asked a question that brought about...
Additive Manufacturing
By 3DPrinthuset (Denmark) The building on demand (BOD)printer developed by COBOD International (formerly known as 3DPrinthuset, now its sister company) ,...
The slow demise of an industry
It is a sad week in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry as one of the best known giants in...
Celebrating Numbers
We like to use numbers to represent things in the natural world. I believe this is because we can...
