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Nikola Tesla exhibition

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Nikola Tesla was an inventor and a mechanic and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity. In the field of electrical engineering, Tesla enriched the world with more than 700 registered inventions, many of which were so far in advance of their times that they could be put to practical purpose only long after his death. You might know the name of the Tesla from Tesla coil high voltage resonant transformer and Tesla unit for “magnetic flux density”.

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Nikola Tesla – The Man Who Lit Up The World exhibition is at the moment located at Aalto University School of Science and Technology main building in Espoo Finland to the end of May 2010. The exhibition is arranged in co-ordination with the Ministry of Culture and the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia. You can see the history of inventions made by Tesla. There are two working demonstrations (reproductions of the device): Tesla’s Egg of Columbus and 150 kV Tesla coil. If you want to see a Tesla coil in operation, this is a good change to see that.

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That Lost 4G Phone

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

It has been hard to miss the story of the Apple engineer who left a rumored prototype of 4G iPhone at a beer garden. Some time later Gizmodo got hold of that 4G iPhone and posted a report on it on-line (interesting stuff). Scott Adams, the man behind Dilbert comic has made a two comic strips on this incident to his blog. That Lost 4G Phone posting contains those first drafts of those comics. Note that there was no need to add anything to the story as it has been told in the media (media’s speculation of events) and it is funny. Brilliant!

Pixels video

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

New York invasion by 8-bits creatures! Old School geeks will simply love this new Amazing Pixels Video for Old School Geeks which combines many of the vintage and retro video game classics, characters, looks and feel into one amazing music video. PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York. This is amazing awesome entertaining video.

New server in use

Monday, March 29th, 2010

ePanorama.net is now running on a new more powerful web server. Things should be now running more smoothly. Enjoy the new speed. Report if you see any problems on the new server.

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ePanorama.net is now in twitter

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

ePanorama.net has now a Twitter account so you can how follow the news related to this blog and ePanorama.net site in general. Twitter user name you should follow is epanoramanet.

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Measure speed of light with chocolate

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Wired magazine have an answer what to do with all of those leftover Valentine’s Day chocolates (if you have any). A microwave and some chocolate can be used to measure the speed of light. It is a simple yet surprisingly accurate method that can be used to introduce the scientific method to children. The details can be found at Leftover Valentine’s Chocolate? Use It to Measure the Speed of Light article. You get the 2450MHz microwave wavelength from the melted chocolate hot spots.

Tour of the International Space Station

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

An HD Video Tour of the International Space Station is simple walkthrough of this incredible project and all its corners. This video tour of the International Space Station is an interesting video, but is has also some annoying things on it. It sometimes overuses picture in picture and superimposed images effects in the video. Just because something can be done with a video, doesn’t mean it should be done.

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My FAQs have new home here

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I have maintained three FAQ lists for many years. Those FAQs are VGA to workstation monitor FAQ, sfnet.harrastus.audio+video usein kysytyt kysymykset (FAQ) and sfnet.harrastus.elektroniikka usein kysytyt kysymykset.

VGA to workstation monitor FAQ tells how to interface different RGB monitors to to PC VGA output and a little bit about connecting other RGB signal sources than PC to VGA monitors.

sfnet.harrastus.audio+video usein kysytyt kysymykset (FAQ) and sfnet.harrastus.elektroniikka usein kysytyt kysymykset are the official FAQs for two Finnish sfnet newsgroups. Those two FAQs are written in Finnish.

I started FAQs started sometimes in the 1990’s when I was a student at Helsinki University of Technology, nowadays from the beginning of 2010 known as Aalto University School of Science and Technology. The University web server has hosted those FAQs for all those years, even after I got my degree. Nowadays due the changes the old web system they got is retiring, so I the FAQs needed a new home.

Being the webmaster at a ePanorama.net I decided that this web site is a good new home for those FAQs. Moving the FAQs to here was easy, but making sure everybody will find the new location can be a task before the old address stops working.

I have already submitted the new URL to Google and added redirects to old address (let’s hope they will stay there active for a long time). I also need to inform the sfnet usenet newsgroup maintainers of the new web address so it gets posted to newsgroups instead of the old one. And then there are many other search engined to to take care. So what are the the best tools nowadays to add/update the URLs on the major search engines easily? I would prefer free on-line tools to do that.

Academia vs. Business

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

xkcd webcomic has today a funny comic about difference between academia research and business. Check out that Academia vs. Business strip yourself on the comic web page (the comic strip picture is too big to fit to the layout of this blog so I could not add it nicely here).

What If They Turned Off the Internet?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

What would happen if they’ve turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope? Cracked.com asked you to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it. The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today) picture collection shows you the best 20 pictures.

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