Category: Career

Career

  • Free Markets and IoT Conferences I

    In my role, you pay attention to conferences. Ideally, you’d go to them all and sift through the repetition to get interesting golden nuggets to…

  • On the Scene: Element14 Tour of Boards

    Three little letters that rule the world. They are but the sun and we are but the moon. Oh IoT, where would we be without…

  • Spintronics recognition

    One of the featured technologies in my DATE report was spintronics. This week the Technology Academy Finland, backed by the Finnish State awarded the 2014…

  • On the Scene: EELive 2014 Wrap Up

    We stormed the gates. We took no prisoners. But, we did take home a lot of pens. Most importantly, we learned some stuff. Welcome to…

  • Micro-Windmill Surprise

    It’s one of those good problems. You’ve been doing some exploratory MEMS work. Your main focus is biomedical – implants for dealing with prostate cancer.…

  • A Quality Rant

    This year I’ve gone through a couple of electronics upgrades: phone and computer. Actually, the phone was supposed to be an upgrade since I wasn’t…

  • And the Handoff Goes To…

    When you think semiconductors, who comes to mind? Intel? What about back before Intel’s heyday? IBM? Fairchild? The baton got passed in the 80s, and…

  • What is a Maker?

    They call themselves “Makers.” As far as I can tell, up until a few years ago, the verb “to make” was an everyday garden-variety word…

  • A Different Spin on Job Loss

    In a discussion with Teledyne DALSA about their MIDIS MEMS process, we spent a few moments discussing how the ASIC die and the MEMS die…

  • It’s the Details

    A couple of years ago I was stunned to find myself jazzed by batteries. I mean, how mundane can you get? A battery is a…