As many of you will have guessed from the predominance of electronics related posting recently, I've been working a lot with digital electronics of late. I recently made the decision to get serious about it, pick a trading name, and start working on projects that others can enjoy. The end result? Meet Arachnid Labs:
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The Open 7400 Logic Competition is a crowd-sourced contest with a simple but broad criteria for entry: build something interesting out of discrete logic chips. It's now in its second year, and this time around I was inspired to enter it.
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Last Thursday night at Oredev, after the sessions, was "Birds of a Feather" - a sort of mini-unconference. Anyone could write up a topic on the whiteboard; interested individuals added their names, and each group got allocated a room to chat about the topic. I joined the "Spatial Indexing" group, and we spent a…