In the past I’ve written a couple of posts on how to get better magnification out of a digital camera. Well, you can get some pretty reasonably priced digital microscopes these days – and now I have one, the DigiTech QC3247. It has two modes, a 20X mode which is fairly useful and a 400X mode [...]

A few posts ago I mentioned that I was having trouble with my Class-D amplifier design. It’s been sitting on the shelf for a few weeks and I think it’s time to have another look at it. It’s amazing how you can notice new things when you take a fresh look at something. The problem [...]

Here’s a quick Javascript I whipped up to make an HTML5 video object track a second HTML5 video object. I needed to do this because I had two videos from a talk – a video of the speaker and a video of his powerpoint presentation, both as MP4 files. This script will trap events from [...]

I finally got around to upgrading to Dev Studio 2010 Express. It looks nice so far but I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the number of fundamental UI mistakes they have made with the documentation system. Have Microsoft learned nothing about user interface and user experience in the 18-odd years they have [...]