We are not proposing a new niche for Marketing Gurus (if they need any ), rather exploring new RFID applications. And believe me, there are things you did not thought of....

FIFO (First In, First Out) is an abstraction in ways of organizing of data relative to time.
Queues are usually despised, being considered a waste of time, either when waiting in front of a cinema for a movie show, or when in a bank to withdraw a check.
The kind of queue we will talk about here is not a waste of time, on the contrary it will save you a lot of time (and some headache) in certain kind of applications.

Amazing DIY, hacks, DIY projects and mods.
Do It Yourself takes a big deal of many people free time.
Call it Kite Building, PC Modding, Car Tuning, Playstation Hacking, many people are totally committed to their own hobby.

T-Mobile G1 phone was finally launched!
While surfing the web, in the very last days I couldn't help noting an increasing amount of news concerning this new device developed by T-Mobile featuring Android by Google. I watched several video clips, including the T-Mobile ad, read comments, post on several blogs, previews, info leaks.

Stopped by a Datasheet (a Freescale microcontroller)! I just can't believe that M68HC08 family of 8-bit microcontroller did this to me!
A few weeks ago, I was asked to modify a project developed previously by another designer.
This device, among other things was battery operated, had a matrix keyboard, and was managed by a Freescale (read and download the Datasheet).

Cern hadron collider is raising a wave of increasing interest all over the world.
The quest for the smallest elementary particle aka boson seems to have reached the apex thanks to this new huge particle collider located on the border of Switzerland and France.

Controlling an inverted pendulum using a Microchip microcontroller was possible at a University in Switzerland. The FLEX Base Board (hosting a Microchip dsPIC - see the Datasheet) and the FLEX Multibus Board with a CAN module were used for swinging-up and maintaining the inverted equilibrium. The Source code was entirely generated using Scilab/Scicos , an automatic code generator for control systems.

Wireless communication is becoming more and more pervasive, that's why new development tools for wireless applications are welcome. The goal of this demo is to provide basic tools to develop more complex wireless applications, using the Erika kernel in conjunction with the FLEX Board [with a microcontroller from Microchip Datasheet]

Out of the box code is quite often a God send gift, especially when handling a new micro. But sometimes ......
I started mucking around with a dsPic4011 few months ago, using MPLAB and C30. I was quite happy since I was able to run an "hello world" application in a very short time. Not only did the MPLAB and C30 installation go smoothly but coping and pasting code available on the C30 peripherals library, programming uart1 and timer1 was a piece of cake!