Archive for June 2015

Friday Fun: Frying an Egg on a CPU

High power CPUs run very hot. But can you cook an egg on it? Search online and you can find videos of people attempting to cook on their processors, but how effective as a cooling solution is this? Frying an Egg on a CPU article makes on an analysis can you throw away your conventional

Making Mechanical Prototypes

There is lots to learn in prototyping – especially mechnical parts. Learn 40 Years Of Mech Prototyping At Lightspeed article introduces you to an amazing 18 part series of videos (total length over 5 hours). It is a truly amazing series where you can learn a lot on Mechanical Engineering. These videos look great –

Battery powered IoT temperature logger testing

Two days I posted some pictures of my newest IoT gadget in Today’s IoT device posting.  This device was second version of my IoT temperature meter, now powered with two AA batteries. This device is built around tiny ESP8266 module I introduced in WIFI module ESP8266 for IoT article. The temperature data is read from