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    Lamp lit by gravity wins Greener Gadget award (from vt.edu)

    Lamp lit by gravity wins Greener Gadget award (from vt.edu)

    Gravia lamp

    Gravia lamp

    BLACKSBURG, Va., February 19, 2008 -- A Virginia Tech student has created a floor lamp powered by gravity.

    Feb. 21 Update:

    While many people want to know when the lamp will be available, many others point out that it won't actually work.

    The criticism is that a great deal of weight –- tons -- would be required and current LEDs are not sufficiently efficient.

    Designer Clay Moulton acknowledges that the current state of the art isn't sufficient to actually build the lamp. The news release should have said: "based on future developments in LED technology."

    Moulton said: "I was told it was not possible given current LED's, but given the rapid pace of innovation in low powered lighting, it would be a conceptual challenge. The mechanism itself is the novelty. I hope everyone understands that this criticism and even failure is all part of a process, and that my job as a designer is to take this feedback and work on."

    The award was for a conceptual design project based on future technology, and the lamp was one of many futuristic designs recognized at the Greener Gadgets Conference.

    Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., who received his master of science degree in architecture (concentration in industrial design) from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 2007, created the lamp when he was an industrial design graduate student. The light-emitting diode (LED) lamp, named Gravia, has just won second place in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition as part of the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City.

    Concept illustrations of Gravia depict an acrylic column a little over four feet high. The entire column glows when activated. The electricity is generated by the slow fall of a mass that spins a rotor. The resulting energy powers 10 high-output LEDs that fire into the acrylic lens, creating a diffuse light. The operation is silent and the housing is elegant and cord free -- completely independent of electrical infrastructure.

    The light output will be 600-800 lumens - roughly equal to a 40-watt incandescent bulb over a period of four hours.

    To "turn on" the lamp, the user moves weights from the bottom to the top of the lamp. An hour glass-like mechanism is turned over and the weights are placed in the mass sled near the top of the lamp. The sled begins its gentle glide back down and, within a few seconds, the LEDs come on and light the lamp, Moulton said. "It's more complicated than flipping a switch but can be an acceptable, even enjoyable routine, like winding a beautiful clock or making good coffee," he said.

    Moulton estimates that Gravia's mechanisms will last more than 200 years, if used eight hours a day, 365 days a year. "The LEDs, which are generally considered long-life devices, become short-life components in comparison to the drive mechanisms," he said.

    ...
    很雅的设计,环保,并谢归功于LED的日趋低功耗高效率
    最后考考你,这是不是永动机呢?

    MAN

    I prog I
    100.0%男性倾向,0.0%女性倾向
    评点:您的文风冷静而镇定,言语间展现出强悍的思辨能力与恢宏的胸襟,一个男子汉的阳刚形象跃然纸上。
    yodao | 博客男女
     
     一个不折不扣的男人,不知这又算是好或不好呢,测试大都不能当真,领会一下精神才是重要的!
     

    不再有暑假?

    大三的暑假,我在干嘛呢?在此发一消息,告诉大家我人间蒸发了。
    没有拉,要出来玩玩也是很好的,但是恐怕时间不多了,这个暑假主要在搞电子设计竞赛,然后还有一项目要做完。
    这几天电设做得还是pretty cool. very nice to be in 峰哥's team. He is Mr. super-technic, who has developed a MPEG-4 decode system on cyclone-II. I bet he is the most powerful guy in SJTU, not one-of! and you know, we two are just fit, when think of solutions, implementing HW/SW we can understand each other fast, and for times, we can give each other better solutions. if without such a person, it would be a lonely dark!
    we found a powerful MCU, with ARM7 core, 12 AD channels, 4 DA channel, external bus interface, on-chip PLA. it runs @ 54 MHz, a enough clock for most of operations.
    so these days we are familiar with this chip and starting develop some user's interface as a start.
    and for the consideration of compatible with our 89s52 board, all the extend board would be the same as that for 89s52, thus we would have a flexible develop platform.

    well, i go sleep now, good night;)

     

    European Goldfinch

    近来很忙,虽然大三下课少了,可是要做的项目可真叫多={Altera FPGA 设计,老陈的自动门on STR750,科创4,还有Zigbee的PRP}. 要运筹帷幄是不可能的了.只能尽量按优先级搞
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    对了,由于MSN live不常用,我用的是Gaim一个第三方软件,因此不能收脱机消息,就不要和用那个留言了。
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    刚才搞了个蛮有意思的东西:)
    In Prison Break, those fishes uses the website www.europeangoldfish.net as a secrect message board, mainly for Scofield and that blackman Nando.
    and i visited that site, to my surprise, it really exists.
    It looks like a bbs or forum, but it is not a dynanmic site. there is no asp,jsp, all the things are fixed, you cannot post anything on it.
    The site pretends to be a goldfinch-observers site, where fans discuss where they've seen the goldfinch, and things like that.
    All the messages mentioned in PB can be found there. so obviously it is a site specially  made by creators of PB. and I have proved that,
    if you check the html source file, you will find:
    <script src="http://www.fox.com/includes/s_code_remote.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    FOX is the name of the company who made PB.
    and i opend that script file, which turned out to be a tracker, which will probarbly register some infomation whenever someone visit this site.
    /************************** CONFIG SECTION **************************/
    /* You may add or alter any code config here.                       */
    /* Variables (s_pageName, s_prop1, etc.) not prefixed with "s_" will not be used. */
    var s_server=""
    var s_disableLegacyVars=true
    /* Specify the Report Suite ID(s) to track here */
    var s_account="foxother"
    var s_dynamicAccountSelection=true
    var s_dynamicAccountList="foxcom=24inside;foxallaccess=foxallaccess;foxparadise=paradiseonfox;foxidol=idolonfox;foxidol=fox.com/idol;foxtest=testonfox;foxtemptation=temptationonfox;foxsimpsons=thesimpsons.com;devfoxcom=fbcplw2fs02;foxcom=fox.com;foxcom=familyguy.com;foxcom=tonywonder.com;foxcom=getarrested.com;foxcom=imoscar.com;foxcom=quahoginformant.com;foxcom=fox.eprize.net;foxcom=fox24.eprize.net;foxcom=europeangoldfinch.net;foxcom=24trailer.com;foxamw=amw.com;foxcom=reynolds-again.com;foxcom=reason2drive.com"
    var s_dynamicAccountMatch=window.location.host+window.location.pathname
    /* Link Tracking Config */
    var s_trackDownloadLinks=true
    var s_trackExternalLinks=true
    var s_trackInlineStats=true
    var s_linkDownloadFileTypes="exe,zip,wav,mp3,mov,mpg,avi,doc,pdf,xls,cab"
    var s_linkInternalFilters="javascript:,foxallaccess.com,paradiseonfox.com,idolonfox.com,testonfox.com,temptationonfox.com,thesimpsons.com,fox.com"
    var s_linkLeaveQueryString=false
    var s_linkTrackVars="None"
    var s_linkTrackEvents="None"
    /* Plugin Config */
    var s_usePlugins=true
    function s_doPlugins() {
    ..........

    and if you use ping cmd to find the IP address, it is:
    Pinging www.europeangoldfinch.net [204.120.182.164] with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 204.120.182.164: bytes=32 time=247ms TTL=232
    then ping fox.com, it comes,
    Pinging fox.com [204.120.182.164] with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 204.120.182.164: bytes=32 time=247ms TTL=232
     
    wow~~~~
    so the site europeangoldfinch.net is just mirrored to fox.com, they share the same IP address.
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    there are still lots of information that has some relation to PB in this forum. but they are not shown in the movie.
    some usernames are FISH, nando.
    Look at this ,
    Attn: Fish 
    C-Finch69
    04/10
     Fish, Need help. My daughter is sick. C-Note.
    Fish
    04/08
     C: Bag has the money. Sorry to hear about your
    daughter. Good luck.
     
    C-Finch69
    04/07
     Fish: My daughter's sick. I need help.
    Any word on the money? --C.
    It is clear that Fish is Michel Scofield, C-Finch69 is just nando.
     

    最后的总结是:FOX做个电视剧真的是到了极致,很认真啊!

     

    狗眼看世界

    名字很吓人吧,其实应该叫做Google眼看世界。
    发现Google lab中有一个google trends, 统计各种内容被搜索的次数,得出the trend.
    The official explanation of Google trends is like this,
    Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.

    狗眼看到了什么呢?
    1. google yahoo
    google在2005年开始真是大猛了一把阿!
    而页面下有一个search cities, 结果倒是没想到,居然search最多次数的是Dublin,看来欧洲城市上网流行度的是世界最高的了。美国的一些大城市San Francisco也有很高的流量。若单看美国,CA的流量最大,其次有NY,MA(有MIT当然猛了),DC之类的。

    再加上AOL, 和PB的FOX river, 结果令人满意,果然是FOX稍猛一些阿!
    google yahoo aol fox cnn


    再来用狗眼看看这个俗的:
    上海交通大学 复旦大学 同济大学 清华大学 北京大学 仅显示前五个字词

    上海交通大学 浙江大学 华中科技大学 复旦大学


    上海交通大学 harvard mit

    结论是:路还很长!

    Update !

    Oh~~~~~~~~~
    Suddenly found that my spaces remains still for such a long time. almost a semester.
    This is really a crazy busy semester, i did super many things....
    the DSP exam will be held tomorrow,which is the L.A.S.T one!  and after that, a great vacation!
    However, again, so many things in the winter holiday. I won't be "formally" free untill 29, coz there is a Altera trainning program. However, informally, i will! haha
     
    Thanks all you guys leave msg on my space in 2006. I wish you a happy 2007!
    in case i won't update my space for a decade, i wish you GOOD LUCK in 2008, 09,10 and so on!
     
     

    hotmail上不了?看这里

    it has been thousands of years since the last update. Not because of there is nothing to say, on the contrary, it is because too much to say that i have no idea of what to say the first and what to say the last. and obviously, i don't want to write a long novel about that all. maybe, it's a good choice to write on those "lists" instead of blog articles.
     
    Well, these days, so many all SJTU guys cannot access hotmail, here i give you a screct way leading to your daydreaming hotmail.
    http://mobile.msn.com/hm/folder.aspx
    that's the address, actually it's for cell phone users. thanks to the narrow bandwidth of the current GPRS, mobile msn hasn't embedded too much complicated services on it. (it seems, it's the fault of the Live Passport service that keeps you away from hotmail.)
    PS. mail attachment download is not supported on that mobile version, but you can forward the mail to another email account and download it there.)

    <<Hey jude>> take a sad song and make it better

    In 1968, John Lennon was living with Yoko Ono, and made clear his intention to leave Cynthia for her. McCartney was profoundly affected, and decided to cheer up John and Cynthia's son, Julian, by writing a little song for him while he was on his way to see them at their home. McCartney said later, "I started with the idea 'Hey Jules', which was Julian, 'don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. Hey, try and deal with this terrible thing.' I knew it was not going to be easy for him. I always feel sorry for kids in divorce. The adults may be fine but the kids... I had the idea by the time I got there."

    好歌是需要灵魂的,Hey Jude很好得传递了一种精神世界,让我感到快乐
     ^
     └ the authentic version, 7:08.
     
     
    歌词如下,可能有些小错误
    hey jude
    don't make it bad
    take a sad song and make it better
    remeber to let her into your heart
    then you can start to make it better
    hey jude
    don't be afraid
    you'll may jude, go out and get her
    the minute, you let her under your skin
    then you begin to make it better
    and any time you feel pain
    hey jude , refain,
    don't carry the world upon your shoulder
    for well you know, that's a fool
    who plays it cool by making his world a little colder
    na na na
    hey jdue
    don't let me donw
    you have found her, now go and get her
    remeber to let her into your heart
    then you can start to make it better
    so let it out and let it in
    hey jude begin,
    you waiting for someone to perform with
    and, don't you know that's just you
    hey jude, you do,
    the movement you need is on your shoulder
    na na na
    hey jude! don't make it bad
    take a sad song and make it better
    remeber to let her run to you skin
    then you begin to make it better, better, better aaaaaah!!
    yyyyyyyyy~~~
    na na na na ~~~
    hey jude
    nnnnnnnnnnnnn
    hey jude
    nnnnnnnnnnnnn
    hey jude
    nnnnnnnnnnnn
    hey jude
    ju ju ju ju judy judy judy jude wow wow wow a ho
    ju ju ju ju ju~~~~~~~~~
    na na na na , yeah yeah yeah, you know you can make it, you goona make it
    don't make bad, take a sad song and make it better
    hey jude, wow, oh~~~

    Processor

    Sleeping, Sun Yen Tzu's <Someone> playing, inspired me magically.
    虽然没有听她在唱什么,但是突然就是精神百倍,毫不疲倦,全身的筋络似乎疏通了一遍,一种有点麻的感觉(不是肉麻的意思)从神经末梢汇至大脑,a!很舒服。我偶尔会有这样感觉,不知道是不是正常的,别人都有,应该有的吧。
    应Spider多日之前的好奇和要求,来写一写计算机、处理器是怎么实现的。
    i intend to write this in a down-top approach. maybe it's a bit boring at first, but it's a good way, i think.

    there is a fundermental course called, digital circuit. Everyone, find this courses extermely easy, it is, in fact, a course about logic and it's circuit represention.
    Basic semiconductor technology invented things like AND GATE, OR GATE, NOT GATE, some thing like that. they are basic( but sufficient) operations about binary information. the reason why they are sufficient operations could be proved in theory, any logic expressions can be expressed in terms of AND, OR & NOT. so anything in reality, if could be expressed by 1's and 0's, then it can be implemented using that 3 gates.
    then, the digtal circuit researchers developed so many magic things about digit circuits, like Data Translator(transform ones from one form to another), MEMORY, BUS(data line), Data selector...
     
    At the same time, semiconductor technology developed rapidly, mainly those what we called integrated circuit(IC), which made it possible to integrate millions, billions of GATES in a tiny space. Up till now, the most advanced semiconductor tech is 65 nanometer technology, which intel P4 is using. 65 nm denotes the average FEATURE SIZE(the average gate length) in a chip. For reference, AIDS virus is 120nm in diameter. so you can imagine how small it is.
    //--------------------------------------------------
    a processor is just a complicted digital circuit. in fact, i can only do simpliest things, like add, multiple, division and also, things even simpler like clear memory in chip.
    processor can only do instruction about registers and external memory. registers are memory inside the chip, but it's packed with other functions. certain registers can do calculations and memories don't. For example, if you want to do a addition, you need to put the number (in binary) to a register A, again, put another number in another register B. then tell the cpu to add B to A, then A is now A+B. (and there are other circuits put to deal with special occations such as Overflow(1000 plus 1000 will be out of the boundary of 4 digits) ). and in the end, you have to put back the contents in register A back to the external memory, thus finished an addition.
    wow, what a complicated work! yes, it's complicated, and i have to say that computers are in fact foolish, they are just machines. and they must relie on a faster frequency to let the time consumed on every instruction to be shorter. nowadays, the fastest processor has a frequency of 500GHz(BlueGene based on POWER architecture).
    wait, in fact, i still haven't explained why processors can do these calculation.
    as said, instruction tells cpu to do something. an instruction is, of course, a set of binary codes. in theory, if a cpu has N output pins and M input pins. the relationship between them can be defined by N equations, though they are extremely long expressions.
     
    give an example
    let's assume that a cpu accepts instructions consists of 8*3 digits.(in fact 32, 64 or more). and, say, the first 8 digits specifies what kind of work it will do, addition or muliplication. and the next 8*2 digits denotes two objects the calculation concerns.
    assuming 0000 0001 is defined as the code for addition, when cpu's first 8 pins recieve it, the addition unit is activated, and others are closed.  how? consider
    Y = (X1 add X2) * ADD + (X1 muliply X2) * MULTIPLY
    add and muliply are 2 circuit units
    + for OR
    * for AND

    There are 4 inputs in all, X1 X2 MULTIPLY and ADD. when the signal ADD is 1 and MULTIPLY is 0, Y = X1 add X2. (at this time the addition unit is what we called, activated.  such an easy mechanism.
    well, there are lots of other things about computer, this post is only a kind of easy explanation. sometimes, i'd love to make diffculit things simple, but not too simple to be naive.
    :]

    TOP500 List for supercomputers

    The 27th TOP500 List was introduced during the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC2006) in Dresden, Germany.

    The No. 1 position was again claimed by the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. BlueGene/L also occupied the No. 1 position on the last three TOP500 lists. It has reached a Linpack benchmark performance of 280.6 TFlop/s (“teraflops” or trillions of calculations per second) and still remains the only system ever to exceed the level of 100 TFlop/s. This system is expected to remain the No. 1 Supercomputer in the world for the next few editions of the TOP500 list.

    Even as processor frequencies seem to stall the performance improvements of full systems seen at the very high end of scientific computing shows no sign of slowing down. This time the last 158 systems on the list in June 2005 are too small to be included any longer, which represents a lower than average turn-over rate after two record breaking rates in the last lists. However, the growth of average performance remains stable and ahead of Moore’s Law.

    TOP 10 Sites for June 2006

    For more information about the sites and systems in the list, click on the links or view the complete list.

     

     

    Rank Site Computer
    1 DOE/NNSA/LLNL
    United States
    BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution
    IBM
    2 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
    United States
    BGW - eServer Blue Gene Solution
    IBM
    3 DOE/NNSA/LLNL
    United States
    ASC Purple - eServer pSeries p5 575 1.9 GHz
    IBM
    4 NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
    United States
    Columbia - SGI Altix 1.5 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband
    SGI
    5 Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
    France
    Tera-10 - NovaScale 5160, Itanium2 1.6 GHz, Quadrics
    Bull SA
    6 Sandia National Laboratories
    United States
    Thunderbird - PowerEdge 1850, 3.6 GHz, Infiniband
    Dell
    7 GSIC Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Japan
    TSUBAME Grid Cluster - Sun Fire X64 Cluster, Opteron 2.4/2.6 GHz, Infiniband
    NEC/Sun
    8 Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ)
    Germany
    JUBL - eServer Blue Gene Solution
    IBM
    9 Sandia National Laboratories
    United States
    Red Storm Cray XT3, 2.0 GHz
    Cray Inc.
    10 The Earth Simulator Center
    Japan
    Earth-Simulator
    NEC

     Where is China?

    35 China Meteorological Administration
    China
    eServer pSeries 655 (1.7 GHz Power4+)
    IBM
    3200 2005 10310 21760

     

     

    Countries Share List:

    US     59.8%

    UK     7%

    JPN   5.8%

    CHINA 5.6%

     

    首先把小日本搞掉!

    有关 电子线路

    明天就要开始考试周了,打开电脑开始写space了。[好久不写了]
    模电,其实又不难的,就没几个定理,考的都是杂七杂八的东西,不触及神经的,因为神经没法考。但是,这教材的确不太令人满意,很多东西不讲清楚,这点是和讨厌的,写一本书不好好写,真是的。虽然,这本童老先生写的教材已经堪称经典了,可能是因为比较基础,有的东西就不和你们小朋友讲清楚了吧。可是,不好这样欺负小朋友的阿~~~
    有的哲学中把逻辑和数学从一般的科学之中分离开来。因为这些理论是高度抽象出来的真理,以至于不需要做什么实验,也没有什么实验可以做,这叫做common-sense.common-sence就是一般的逻辑了(逻辑是很简单的,假如有人新发明逻辑,那在世界上也不会有大用,因为否则人脑应该早就自发产生了,这种东西应该是自发的)。然后common-sense和一些事实经验空想出来很多很多东西,就是无穷无尽的数学了。近代的数学已经是比较obscure了,以至于我们学得数学都是几百年前就有的东西了。近代数学较难以理解,要等一段时间,等到baby生出来就被用那些obscure的东西造出来的amazing things包围的时候,那些babies就有希望了!
    当然,数学家是很厉害的,什么Cauchy,Laplace,Gauss,(近代的知道很少),空想出了很多东西。使我们不得不佩服,和赞叹。
    说回来,工程的东西,基本全靠数学模型了,它们建立在实验的基础上。电路方面的工程牵涉到的数学还是比较复杂的,虽然真正做工程不需要数学研究多深入。因此,模电之类的东西,就变成数学应用题了。难得题目要么是模型复杂,要么是模型弄不清楚,感到它失效了,然后只好直接搞,其实这样的情况不多。电路分析里面有许多奇怪的方法,书上没有什么明确的定义或解释,要靠领悟的,这就~~~
    本质来说,这样的事情是不存在的,但是有的分析太繁,只好凭感觉,恩。然后感觉这东西,就不算科学了吧。。。
    模电是很神奇的东西,主要发展(继承)体系是这样的:
        物理,数学
    ->  半导体物理(晶体管、场效应管)
    ->  分立原件电路(即没有集成块)        到这里可以做一些简单的放大器
    ->  集成电路 (运算放大器)                到这里什么加减乘除都能做了
    ->  数字电路                                      数字化实现了不出错
    -综合->>  形形色色的应用电子设备
    模电就是搞中间的东西,半导体物理内容太多,无暇涉及。但是没有他,没有半导体,什么都没有咯。
    [当我用这一个电脑,用着Internet,想想吧,其中的复杂,crazy!]
       “第一个发明了PN结的人,我认为这没什么价值”
     
    量子力学,有希望成为下一场革命的领导者.

    玩橡皮泥记

    今偶得橡皮泥一罐,爱不释手,牛鬼蛇神、飞禽走兽、阿狗阿猫皆借之投胎。
    后小塑一具,乃一书生,以眼镜饰之,又作龇牙咧嘴之状,甚是滑稽。初名之曰《书呆子的呐喊》,觉之不妥。又名曰《我的呐喊》,聊表心头之感。
    大爽矣,哈哈哈。

    科创完了,精神未分裂!

    今终于把科创结束了,虽然几乎是在终审前一刻才debug成功,虽然还有想添加的功能,终审顺利通过,听着LM386放出的音量自动的SlamDunk 主题歌,蛮爽的!
    当然也有不爽的地方,劳动成果,科研成果就这样被无情得收走了。估计是怕互相借用,造就一大批"汉芯"出来。
     
    第二次和大学同学在学术方面有这样的合作,成功的合作,愉快的合作,很高兴!我们组里有n多猛男,个个身怀绝技,哈哈哈:D
     
    说来话长,这东西真实一波八折,相当之搞。其实是很简单的电路,每做一个单元,first 焊好电路,then 问题就出现了,at first we will use serveral hours to find out the problem, (and as you find the problem, to fix it is quite easy. that reveals something really valuable! THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS NOT HOW TO FIX A PROBLEM, BUT TO FIND WHERE IT IS.)
    However, after doing one or two boards, i gradually learned how to find out the problem. Again, we got a guideline: Alway debug scienfically, that is ALWAYS IN A LOGICAL WAY! Is the power supply right? is the chip working properly? what about that chip? as you go on in this way, the bug will be focused to a certain board, to a certain chip, and to a certain connection or component. yeah~~
    另外一个郁闷的事情是,越做这个你越发现,其实模电学得很差,一开始想用推挽式输出,然而电路接好完全不能放大,而是缩小的……这的确是个遗憾,留着去想想明白. this kind of emotion is called 郁闷。
    最终的solution is, there is a chip called LM386, often used as a audio amplifier. but i'm not sure whether our lab have such a chip, when i went in to the management office, seeing there is LM386 written on the "available components list", you know, this is the emotion called happy, coz your demand can be met.
     
    and problems and bugs are always rising. when we left lab, everything is ok, but the next day, the system just didn't work! this is the emotion called faint! faint, faint. These kind of things alway delay our schedual, i have to stay at school during the weekend, fix it.
    yesterday, everything is done. but i have rearranged some components on the board to make it looks a bit more pleasent, that, finally, leads to a very unpleasent debugging work.
     
    精度,又一个很重要的事情,其实没有什么科学含量,技术含量还是高的。昨天调放大倍数的精度,其实就是调整电阻,结果一个电组上面不断的并电阻上去。经过一次又一次的我们所谓的“伟大的尝试”,the error is decreasing. 200k,500k,1M,2M...终于error <1.0%, 发现五六个电阻并联着开了花。我和凯子的脸也笑成了一朵花~~~~
     
    说说最后的效果吧,我们用22uF和510K的RC选频检波电路,把音频在5s左右内的平均幅值检验出来,通过电压比较,送回单片机;and the output part is done by the amplifier circuit using LM386. 当把电脑音乐输出变轻,增益就慢慢加了,and vice versa,所以听到的是比较 ear-protect 的。Really cool to have spaker output!
     
    Specials thanks to you all
    访抖动,增益延时 搞了蛮长时间:CS 猛男 凯丰
    电路调试,走直角的电线、指示灯: 电气工程 猛男 二坤
    数字感觉级佳:某地猛男啸晨
    Slam Dunk 主题曲 词·曲·歌:大黑摩季

    Explanation on the previous note.

    yuan lai shi zhe yang...

    space chou feng le, bu neng da zhong wen le.

    Intel in Macs

    Just what is an Intel chip doing in a Mac?

    Powered by the most advanced Intel chip, your new Mac will do all those things that only Macs can do — and do so at an astonishing level of performance. Intel Core Duo is the next generation in processor design from the world’s leading chip maker. The result of massive R&D effort involving thousands of engineers. An entire collection of revolutions shrunk into an unimaginably small space.

    Two processors are better than one

    The Intel Core Duo represents an order-of-magnitude leap in processor design. It’s actually two processors (cores) engineered onto a single chip — offering virtually twice the computational power of a traditional single processor in the same space. With two cores tightly integrated, increased L2 cache, and a host of engineering breakthroughs, the Intel Core Duo delivers higher performance for all the things you do — from enhancing the family photos to rendering special effects for a feature film.

    Intel

    It’s all about power

    While the Intel Core Duo delivers far more horsepower than previous processors, it does so in a most extraordinary way: it consumes less energy. That’s due to the way the two cores work together to share resources(???interesting ), and how they are designed to conserve power when their functions aren’t required. Because the Intel Core Duo delivers high performance so efficiently, the new Macs can be both super-powerful and elegantly thin.

    A Herculean(ju da de)  effort

    It’s no coincidence that the Intel Core Duo was born of the world’s leading processor company. To design and fabricate a dual-core chip performing at this level demands a commitment of resources few companies can even contemplate. The Intel Core Duo represents years of development by legions of Intel engineers. It’s the first Intel processor built using the new 65-nanometer process, which makes possible transistors so small you could fit a hundred inside a single human cell. Combine the advances of Intel with the innovation of Apple, and you get the most amazing Macs ever built.

     

     

    MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo

    Dual Core Performance

    4-5X Faster PowerBook G4 MacBook Pro
    Core Duo
    Δ
    SPECint_rate_base2000
    Integer calculation (estimate)
    6.7 30.3 4.5X
    SPECfp_rate_base2000
    Floating-point calculation (estimate)
    4.9 25.6 5.2X

    Times faster than 15-inch PowerBook G4 with 1.67GHz PowerPC based on estimated results of industry-standard SPECint and SPECfp rate tests. Testing conducted by Apple in January 2006 using preproduction 15-inch MacBook Pro units with 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo; all other systems were shipping units. SPEC is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).

    iMac with Intel Core Duo

    Dual Core Performance

    2-3X Faster iMac G5
    2.1GHz
    iMac Core Duo
    2.0GHz
    Δ
    SPECint_rate_base2000
    Integer calculation (estimate)
    10.2 32.6 3.2X
    SPECfp_rate_base2000
    Floating-point calculation (estimate)
    13.0 27.1 2.1X

    Times faster than 20-inch iMac G5 with 2.1GHz PowerPC based on estimated results of industry-standard SPECint and SPECfp rate tests. Testing conducted by Apple in January 2006 using preproduction 20-inch iMac units with 2GHz Intel Core Duo; all other systems were shipping units. SPEC is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).

    开始了

    Boot Camp Public Beta. Macs do Windows, too.

    More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

     

     

    具体机构不很理解,但是apple的界面总是贴着不错的

    哦哟,又被无情的点名了

    详细内容,敬请访问
    小腿的space
    http://spaces.msn.com/qilinKingSpace/
    我就不做孽,不再继续点名了
    五一节还是舒坦一点的好哦

    好消息

    A.将现有的放大器和4066调整到适合音频信号。
    初步结论:
    1.Amplifier 的频率特性        // switch and OpAmp both have a frequency characteristic that's enough for the modual Audio signal. 
    2.4066对于负压是不通的,要把它耦合到一个静态电压上。输出时再提取出交流分量。 // it seems that the judgement made by the experiment guide is not true.
    // and, another easier approach: connect the GND of CD4066 to a voltage that's a bit lower, say, -1 V, that will let the signal pass through while not effecting the Control Pins, as long as 1V < the trig level.
    3.不宜改变基本部分的电路
     
     只需实验测一测便知!
     
     

    科创2扩展部分 设计框架

    现在开始,my space作为 科创二我们小组交流板块,也欢迎闲杂人等入内;)
    自动增益部分的功能基本设计为:
    输出信号平均电平(在一个采样时间内)恒定,若有偏离则自动调整到设定的范围内。
    整个系统应适应于一般音频信号,Vp-p = 1000 mv 的交流信号,频带即为可闻及音频带:50Hz ~ 16KHz.
     
    TO DO TASKS:
    A.将现有的放大器和4066调整到适合音频信号。
    注意
    1.Amplifier 的频率特性
    2.4066对于负压是不通的,要把它耦合到一个静态电压上。输出时再提取出交流分量。
    3.不宜改变基本部分的电路
     
    B.输出级的取样和检测电路
    1.找到一个合适的表征音量的频率,(拟取:800Hz)
    2.球其在一段时间内(e.g. 1s)的平均电压, 此处应已为直流信号
    3.比较电路,比较电压是否在指定的区间内。 比较电路的实现用两个开环运放就可。
        输出为数字信号,indicating whether the voltage is within the specified range.
     
    C.单片机的自动增益调整。
        通过输入信号调整增益。
     
     
    可以先查些资料吧,主要是这个音频信号的有关问题比较难搞。
     

    Carl Hsia
    2006-04-21

    各种各样 From 水木社区 和 饮水思源

    总之,这种紧密的联系使任何一方都难以承受两国关系严重受损的代价。对美国来说,“遏制中国”是不可能的使命。http://www.smth.org/bbscon.php?board=News&id=145908
     
    男人白天奔波,夜里操劳为的啥?
    还不是直接的或是间接的;有意的或是无意的;为他们梦想中的、
    但是现实中还没有的;或这是他梦想的、而且已经在现实中找到的;
    或是他梦想中的、而且也已经在现实中找到的,但是与他梦想不一样的;
    或是不知道在哪里、存不存在、漂不漂亮的女孩子或女人,
    吃得更好、走得更少、住得更宽敞吗?——《寝室夜话》
     
    女口果人尔能看日月白这段言舌,那言兑日月人尔白勺目艮目青有严重白勺散光
    I.  不要问BBS能为你做什么,而要问你为BBS做了什么
      II. 大牛努力回答牛问题,菜青虫努力回答菜问题。大家都要努力回答别人的问题
      III.BBS是靠良性循环存在的,只想获取不愿奉献的人不是网络人:)
      IV. 一个好的站点是靠大家的努力建成的,懒于回答别人的人也不会得到别人的回答
     
    建安文学繁荣昌盛的原因
    [思想的解放] [动乱的社会现实] [领袖人物的倡导]
    一个时期文学的发展,与领袖人物或统治者的态度有很大关系。汉武帝好大喜功,尤好吹捧,所以便导致了汉大赋的兴盛。当然,汉大赋有其产生的各种因素,但与统治者的提倡是有很大关系的,就象宫体诗的产先与南朝萧氏统治集团有密切关系一样。
    任何时代文学的发展,都存在有文学内部、外部的发展规律。文学内部的发展规律,是文学继承发展的主要原因,而外部的社会现实等则是文学赖以发展的客观条件。
     
    中 国 每 年 用 掉 多 少 双 一 次 性 筷 子 ?
    450亿双。这会耗费170万立方米的木材,需要砍伐大约2500万棵大树
     

    carlxia
    2006-04-19

    China-US relations 摆事实讲道理

    PACIFIC FRICTIONS
    These two giants facing off across the Pacific have a massive economic relationship. They align on some key geopolitical issues, but they also have areas of friction that threaten to escalate.
    Trade deficit:
    The imbalance hit a record $202 billion in China's favor at the end of 2005, prompting U.S. lawmakers to threaten punitive moves unless Beijing lowers market barriers in to U.S. services and goods. China says the U.S. shares the blame because it bars sales to China of high-tech items that have military applications.
     
    Currency:
    Beijing's critics say the Chinese currency is set artificially low, which makes its exports cheap and conversely makes foreign imports expensive for Chinese consumers. Despite gradual reform of its currency system and slight appreciation of the yuan, Beijing won’t allow the currency to float freely because of volatility fears.
     
    Intellectual property rights: haha, it's a big problem
    Piracy is more the rule than the exception in China, say U.S. industry advocates. According to 2004 industry estimates, software piracy in China cost U.S. companies more than $1 billion and music piracy cost U.S. companies about $280 million.
     
    Taiwan
    omitted
     
    Human rights
    Beijing’s suppression of political activists, labor organizers, social activists, and religious and ethnic groups has long been a mainstay of U.S. complaints against China. This remains unchanged. However, reports of U.S. abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and long-term detention without charges of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have prompted Chinese leaders to fire back on human rights.
     
    Iran and North Korea
    omitted
    .....