Electronics Forum / Design / July 2008

Has anyone on this forum taken a course from the "Cleveland Institute of
Electronics" (CIE), and if so, what is your opinion of the school? Is it
worth the money?
If you don't won't to reply on this newsgroup, please email me at jcd (at)

I am working on a design requiring synchonization of two tool pieces
with a variable thickness membrane between them.  I want to be able to
run a system to get the parts within a few mm, and a laser with enough
excess gain to be picked up on a pcb mounted ccd mounted on a sensor

I have three ADAM modules from Advantech that I never used and I want to
trade for a serial PCMCIA card for my laptop (it has no serial ports). Does
anyone know a company that would do such thing? I tried B&B but they don't
do trade-ins. I'm about to place them in eBay but before ...

Overview
    CNA1301H is an ultraminiature, highly reliable transmissive
photosensor in which a high efficiency GaAs infrared light emitting
diode chip and a high sensitivity Si phototransistor chip are

i'm looking for digital programmable oscilloscope, which is provided
with API.
I need read some data from the oscilloscope and save them in file, so
programming interface to oscilloscope is needed

I've been refurbing a fancy copy machine controller.
Since I paid $13 for it and it had $65 cash in it, the project seems to
be off to a fairly good start. The main problem seemed to be a broken
crimp lead on the power supply connector.

I was looking on the internet
for the HARDWARE-replacement of old 3"1/2 floppy drives in
PC's running CDOS, version 1988,
or

I believe it was JosephKK who promised to post source code for
NewsProxy??
Could you do that?  I'll pass it on to my son, who I'm sure can
modernize it and fix the crash mechanism.

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Anyone from Iowa lurking here?
I'm puzzled by the flooding in Iowa.
I grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, which was extensively flooded
in the late 1930's (Ohio River).

We scored a couple of cups in a lane nearby, so I made a pie. Mo calls
it "Pie Descending a Staircase."
ftp://66.117.156.8/Pie.JPG
There are tons of flowers and green berries, so it should be a good

Where would one buy Alumina (Al2O3) substrate?
I need a piece 1/4" thick 2x2" square, or disk 2.5" dia. The actual
dimentions are not critical.
... is it easy to drill holes in alumina substrate

I have a motorcycle intercom system with helmets that have had
microphone and speakers installed.
The intercom system is of high quality, but the speaker transducers
that are provided are not able to product adequate volume without

Just like internet web-servers, our mobile hand-sets can act as host
for our personal web-pages. The memory card installed on hand-set will
decide the size of the personal web-site. The pages can be in "html"
format as usual. The communication software installed on hand-sets

Well I spent a half hour of my life under the magnet of an "open" MRI
machine yesterday. Still a bit claustrophobic. While I sort of
understand the theory of the MRI, what I don't understand is what
creates all the noise and racket. Any experts out there that can tell me