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Steve Jobs’ Science Fair Project, at age 13
I just discovered this, at a “garage sale” from the original Apple garage. The SCR (Silicon Controlled Rectifier) is a semiconducting latch that behaves electrically like one NPN transistor + one PNP transistor hooked together in a feedback loop. At age 12, Jobs cold-called HP co-founder Bill Hewlett from the phone book to ask for… Read More
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Apollo 15 FDAI Flown to the Moon
🚀 OTD 55 years ago, Apollo 15 launched to the moon, carrying the first EV to drive the lunar surface. And here’s the Apollo 15 Flight Director / Attitude Indicator (FDAI or “8 Ball” 🎱) that was used to fly to the moon and back, the newest addition to the space collection.at work. A photo… Read More
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⌚ Watching you watching me
I love skeleton watches that show the inner clockwork and those with unique takes on timekeeping. Here is another eclectic batch, from L to R: 1) The white Omega x Swatch Moonshine Gold. It is the first and only watch that shows the phases of Earth as seen by an astronaut on the moon (soon… Read More
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Me Making Magic 🎩
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke in his 1962 book Profiles of the Future Someone generated this image of me on X, given my talk at the Mad Hats AI conference. It did an amazing job… it even got my funky watch with orbiting Starlink and Moon, and distant… Read More
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A Mad 🎩 AI Interview
a fun interview from an AI conference just dropped ► www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxIVCIoLOys …covering the long arc of Moore’s Law to Elon Musk to the prospect of machine consciousness
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Hiking far above Hvar
My daughter found a secret entrance to the castle
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Sailing into Sunset with friends in Croatia 🇭🇷
Happy Father’s Day Y’all !!!
