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    Fastest way to become RF engineer

    Please humor this question. I know it is ridiculous but please give me your best answer. Suppose a young EE student has seen the light and wants to become a master RF engineer. He wonders what the fastest and best possible way to go about this process as opposed to the non-linear path many...
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    Choosing a material for a mill handle

    I'll try to get the information you requested as soon as possible (it might be a day before I can go back to the shop). In the meantime how will knowing these things guide your decision (I'm trying to learn, not just get an answer :) ). I don't think tensile strength will matter because the...
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    Choosing a material for a mill handle

    I don't know how much load. It's operated by hand so I guess however much a person can apply. How should you measure this? We were planning on using a lathe to make it. I was thinking of just buying a rod. Can you not use a lathe for plastic? I was thinking of tapping the smaller cylinder so...
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    Choosing a material for a mill handle

    Hello. MechE noob here. I'm an ECE guy and I'm apart of a group of students working on a solar car. I decided I wanted to get more mechanical experience so I joined one of the ME teams. However, before they let you work on real stuff they make you go through smaller projects. So my first...
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    Line intersection algorithm optimization

    I am trying to heavily optimize a piece of code in C as well as MIPS assembly. Here is a link to my code: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7264839/P1-3.c http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7264839/P1-4-1%20new.asm The problem is find the number of intersections between 1 pixel wide lines of different colors...
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    Efficient Algorithms for Counting Line Crossings on a Grid

    Can you give me an example of these masks? The only kind of masking I know of is bit masking and I'm not following how to use them here. Thanks for the idea, though! EDIT: By the way, there are only 7 different colors.
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    Efficient Algorithms for Counting Line Crossings on a Grid

    Hello, there's this problem about line crossings I saw somewhere and was trying to solve. There's a 64x64 grid of 8 bit pixels and it has a bunch of 1 pixel wide vertical and horizontal lines of different colors on it. All parallel lines have at least one space between them. The problem is...
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    Compiling C: What Do Experts Use?

    IDEs are bloated and slow usually and makefiles are confusing to write by myself. I was just wondering what you experts do to organize and compile projects with.
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    Strange glitches in my C sorting program

    OK, I found the problem. My arrLen function was returning too many elements. I have to find the length of the input array, which I wrote my general purpose function for counting the length of an array. The problem was when Load_Mem() (which I didn't write) didn't put a terminating character...
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    Strange glitches in my C sorting program

    OK, the argc problem was just a stupid mistake on my part, but I still don't see why the program exits with code 1 at the end. By the time the array is sorted (which is clearly shown) all "exit(1)" statements have been passed and the only return statement left is the final "return 0;" EDIT...
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    Strange glitches in my C sorting program

    Thanks for the help.:approve: So the return character is necessary to finish the input how do I get rid of it and only it before the while loops condition is checked? Here's a picture of what happens when the program finishes, although I don't think it will help much. Also, I don't think...
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    Strange glitches in my C sorting program

    Homework Statement I have to write a program that takes in a file that looks like this: 3424: 313 4334: 543 etc. and sorts the numbers on the write. Everything for getting the file into an array was done for me so I know it's correct. I'm having two strange problems. First, whenever I'm...
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    Question about going into EE/CmpE

    Hello all, I will be going to Uni soon as either an EE or a CmpE (probably CmpE). I appeal to your experienced selfs and ask if you could recommend some books/topics/activities that you think I should read/know/do or that you wish you had had before you started off. I know the physics and basic...
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    Studying Good books/blogs/ etc. for advancing in math

    Well, seeing as I'm just reading for fun I was hoping you would suggest fields you find interesting. But here's some prospective items. Number theory and graph theory sound the most interesting. Also, I have to learn probability and statistics in the future so that counts too.
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    Studying Good books/blogs/ etc. for advancing in math

    I'm just a humble engineer. I've taken the standard slew of math courses everyone takes (Calc, diff eqs., linear algebra) and I enjoyed them but I want something more. The world of math is so vast that every time I try to branch out I get lost and give up. Do you guys have any suggestions for...
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