I just got back from the ASEE conference in Pittsburgh.   I have noticed that there seems to be two types of schools.  One feels their job is to educate students.  The other believe they are a research facility.  I went to Berkeley and there is no doubt which camp it falls into.  I also did not see professors from CAL.  I saw a lot of Professor from land grant...

First to find the flaw in the mathematical proof wins an PSoC Eval1 board or a signed copy of my new Lab book.

1     X = Y

2     X^2 = X * Y

3     X^2 -Y^2  = X*Y - Y^2

4     (X + Y) * (X - Y) =  Y * (X - Y)

5    (X+Y)  = Y

6    (Y + Y) = Y  (substitution from 1)

7    2 = 1

A while back I posted about how really lame the HP33s was.  Well I am at the ASEE conference (American Society of  Engineer Educators)  and I saw the new HP35.  It looks like an HP calculator.  It acts like one.  Best of all it is only $70 compared to a couple of hundred for a used HP32sII on Ebay.  I can only hope my posting prompted HP to develop this new...

Cypress Semiconductor has announced the latest release of PSoC Programmer 3.00, which is available at www.cypress.com/psocprogrammer . This Programmer release is intended to be used with PSoC Designer 5.0, PSoC Designer 4.4, PSoC Express 3.0. Please review the Programmer User Guide and Release Notes as there have been many changes to the software.

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PSoC reaches French universities. An ISTASE’s student, an engineering school based in Saint-Etienne, started the first website dedicated to PSoC completely in French. "I had the opportunity to work on PSoC during an electronic project", says Fayçal Guennar, the student who came out with the PSoC website idea, "My professor Thierry Bru insisted on it because he believed in PSoC’s...