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    Is school or work the next step towards becoming a great inventor?

    I completed my undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering back in May 2010. Have been working at an engineering firm for a few months but am pondering going back for a masters. Here is where I am confused. I am considering a Masters in Electrical Engineering but I am moreover intrigued...
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    What materials can absorb impact from a 3-story drop?

    What are the properties of acrylic? I am building an acrylic robot that is hollow and shaped as a ball and needs to be able to absorb an impact from a 3 story building ( 20 foot drop)... It can be covered in some polymer or other material. Anyone know of any materials that can absorb the impact?
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    Reset Button Functionality: Pulling High vs. Pulling Low

    EASY QUESTION, URGENT RESPONse when u typically hit a reset buton on a breadboard, it is usually closing the circuit to ground. However let's say u want the reset button to power to vdd when hit and be grounded when not hit. How would u implement this?
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    Improving Vehicle Safety with Traction Control: A Senior Design Project

    Our group has come across a few iinteresting ideas. We would really like to do something with aviation and control, but it needs to be more on the EE side than the CSE side where there's a lot of programming that can be done... ANY IDEAS in general much appreciated... FOR those of you who...
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    Calculators Graphing Sinc Function on TI-89 and TI-84 | Step-by-Step Tutorial

    thankyouu veryy much to everyone for encouraging a solution in our communityyy here! i hope to give back to your questions in the same way you've helped me... It was a super trivial solution which when dividing by pi*x, i had to put parenthesis! duhhh! and u would think a senior in EE would know...
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    Calculators Graphing Sinc Function on TI-89 and TI-84 | Step-by-Step Tutorial

    its not that it doesn't graph the function, but it graphs it backwards or something. From 0, it oscilllates with higher and higher amplitude to infinity and to negative infinity. The highest oscillation is suppose to be at 1 when x=0 and oscillate down from x=0 to zero at x= infinity.
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    Calculators Graphing Sinc Function on TI-89 and TI-84 | Step-by-Step Tutorial

    how to graph sinc function on ti-84 sinc(x) = sin(pi X) / pi X solution: sinc(x) = sin(pi X) / (pi X) yes it was that simple!
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    Let's Talk Frequencies: Can Faster Freq Carry More Data?

    we can in fact squeeze more transistors onto a single intergrated chip which is why the field of very large scale integration (vlsi) is so big now... The new intel core i7 has something of the sort of 800 million transistors on a single die. They already have started processing at 32nm and these...
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    Let's Talk Frequencies: Can Faster Freq Carry More Data?

    Is a faster frequency capable of carrying more data than a lower frequency? i would say yes because the period is shorter in a faster frequency so you can modulate more data (if amplitude modulation). Does more power get used if the frequency is faster but amplitude is the same? These...
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    AVR STUDIO (compiling C and running)

    okay i can compile the c file fine. but when i run it, its trying to connect through jtag and hardware. I just want to see the output of the compiled program! any1 know how? thankyouu verry much
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    Is the Speed of Light the Same for All Electromagnetic Frequencies?

    So the speed of light C = 3x10^8 m/s right? it had me thinking, is this the speed of the visible light spectrum or any and all frequencies commute at the speed of "light"... when i think of light i think of the visible spectrum... maybe speed of light should be called speed of frequecies??
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    Kirchoff's current law question

    depends on the standardization of current. If current is defined as direction holes travel in, than it follows passive sign convention whereas, current is usually defined as direction opposite of electron flow. I see your point. Ic + Ir = I so Ic = I - Ir...
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    Feasibility of spherical wheels.

    It is highly expensive as well as highly possible to create a system that runs off of electromagnetics where the spherical wheel "floats" under the vehicle but is magnetically controlled by numerous sources that position the wheel to spin around the axis of magnetization. This way you wouldn't...
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    Net to Catch a Butterfly: Creating Strong Material for Humans

    What about those boxes they use to protect people in the midwest if a tornado comes. I am sure you could build one strong enough to protect you from a nuclear weapon. ALso I heard that all the genetics in the world of every known species is being locked away in the antartic to preserve the...
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    Building a Counter for HeartBeat

    huh , interesting thought, but I am not sure i can use a shift register... these are the components i can use... 4011 CMOS NAND (2 input) 4029 CMOS UP/DN COUNTER 4043 RS TYPE FF 4093 SCHMITT TR NAND 4511 LED DRIVER 7 SEGMENT DISPLAY 7400 NAND (2 Input) 7402 NOR (2 Input) 7404 INVERTER...
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