What are the most interesting parts you've dreamed up? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: tsarna
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: May 13, 2012, 02:10:05 pm
content: ...and I mean literally.I've had two dreams in twice as many weeks with interesting components. In the first, I was looking at some single board computer, and I realized it had on it a segmented style smiley face LED display (similar to a seven segment display). There were individual segments kind of like (sideways):. \|/- |. /|\'So it could do :-( for hardware failure, :-/ for boot failure :-| while booting, :-) once booted, and then it would wink periodically as a heartbeat. I though, wow, I never realized anyone made a part like that. Of course once I woke up, I realize they don't.More recently, I had a dream where I was looking at a data sheet for a ARM SoC called the LEAP (Low Energy ARM Processor -- not a bad name!) aimed at "ultra low power mobile gaming". The data sheet quoted performance in "Marios per mW"!

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2012, 04:03:39 pm
content: I actually dreamed upon a uber fast ... MCU.Actually, a 4800mips MCU operating at 2400MHz running win7 .... What's MORE interesting is that they stopped quoting how many flops it does ... they quoted it in miles-per-hourIt was called DAFUQDIDIJUSTDREAM

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2012, 05:23:08 pm
content: a wallet that always had a hundred dollar bill in it. take a bill out of it and a new one would appear immediately. works wonders if you need to pay for that new piece of testgear you had your eye on for so long.... Agilent 90000 series here i come... do you take cash ?

author: ftransform
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2012, 06:55:40 pm
content: Anyone used to have this dream that they are digging in the dirt and finding all sorts of useful things?When I was little I used to dream about finding lego minifigs in the dirt, then I started dreaming about finding pills in the dirt, then I started dreaming about finding transistors in the dirt o_O

author: McMonster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2012, 07:10:19 pm
content: Quote from: ftransform on May 13, 2012, 06:55:40 pmYou can dig out many interesting things if you live in those parts of the world directly affected by world war II. Rifles, machineguns, artillery shells, rockets, even a tank (not so rare in Ukraine or Belarus). Unfortunately some of those can still explode today.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2012, 07:16:58 pm
content: Quote from: McMonster on May 13, 2012, 07:10:19 pmAnd human remains. Unfortunately some bastards steal and collect dog tags, leaving the remains behind and making it impossible to identify them.

author: A Hellene
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2012, 08:46:12 pm
content: Speaking of WWII artifacts,Elena Filatovamaintains avery interesting websitecontaining photo-essays she has personally took of theChernobyl Exclusion Zoneand of WWII remnants at The Serpent's Wall, near Kiev, Ukraine.She also used to keep an interesting 50' video she took, called "WWII memories from the Serpent's Wall (2006)" but it seems that it is not there anymore. I had it downloaded and re-encoded in DivX to reduce the huge original .MPG video file size to ~220 MB. Speaking of that file's statistics, I have just checked my P2P server and I can see that this video file has been requested 1606 times and an amount of 4.42 GB has been uploaded in 724 requests the server software has accepted since 2008!-George

author: sonicj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2012, 12:31:07 am
content: Quote from: ftransform on May 13, 2012, 06:55:40 pmmaybe you should invest in a metal detector & a shovel?btw, metal detectors are fun devices!-sjQuote from: A Hellene on May 13, 2012, 08:46:12 pmi've read that a few times... very interesting!

author: olsenn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2012, 01:05:21 am
content: If that's what you're dreaming about, I'd say you need to get laid

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2012, 04:08:59 am
content: Quote from: McMonster on May 13, 2012, 07:10:19 pmI worked with a young Engineer a few years back,who was born in,& spent his early years in Vietnam.He & his mates used to dig up old ammunition which was lying around everywhere,& as boys do,made(quite lethal) "fireworks" out of the guts of the ammo.He said all his friends survived that stage,so they probably used up all the luck they were allocated for life!

author: elliott
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2012, 05:38:18 am
content: Quote from: olsenn on May 14, 2012, 01:05:21 amWouldn't it be the exactly the opposite?

author: McMonster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2012, 06:16:47 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on May 14, 2012, 04:08:59 amI know a guy from Ukraine but living in Poland who used to dig out and defuse artillery shells (quite large ones) at his home. Back in the days when my parents had the only phone in the vilage out neighbour once walked into our house with a plastic bag full of rockets or shells to call for military defusal squad (they're mostly responsible for handling those "souvenirs" here). I've had contact with various items from the war almost my entire life until moving to the city. And even in the big cities they sometimes find bombs and shells, usually at constructions sites, rivers or when repairing the infrastructure or hand weapons in hidden stashes in old buildings. It's never boring to live in Europe if you're interested in military technology and history and this was my hobby for years. Legends from the war are also interesting, most of them contain treasures hidden in various places by retreating Germans, specifically in ex-German territories like the Lower Silesia, where I live.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2012, 10:33:32 am
content: Anyways, speaking about the bomb thing, some artifacts dating to WWII has been found in many construction sites here in my town since last year onwards... MANY I MEAN MANY