April 1st, 2022 @ Electronic Design: Keeping on Your Toes
This article is part of the 2022 April 1st series in the Humor topic within our Series Library.
April 1st has traditionally been a day to celebrate with jokes, spoofs, and other tricks. It’s always hard to consider humor when there are so many tragedies in the world, but we seem to have them regardless of the year at hand. Likewise, humor can make bearing up in these tough times a little easier. We don’t want you to forget the horrors occurring in Ukraine or having to deal with COVID. However, we do hope our attempt at humor puts a grin on your face.
Our take on this day follows our take on the industry we cover. If you stumble upon our articles, then you better read carefully:
- A 555 Timer PWM Circuit to Control Ancient Evil
- Single-Neuron-Based AI Reacts to the Human Voice
- Hybrid Hele-Kites Offer a Novel Approach to Wind Power
- Startup Launches Campaign for Post-Mortem Video Playback
- Oscar Awards Pivot to Scientists, Engineers Instead of Celebrities
- Game Show to Focus on STEM Constants with “Number, Please” Week
- Using Smartphone Texts for Clinical Reflex/Reaction-Time Tests
- Novel Material Challenges Legacy Audio Amplification
- First Odor-Enhanced VR Headset Goes on Sale in Time for the Holidays
We’ve also collected them together so that you won’t miss any, including a gallery. We even have eBooks of our collections, so check out the new and old.
Stay safe. Help others and spread a little cheer.
Download our eBooks that collect together the April 1st articles:
- April 1st, 2022 @Electronic Design eBook Vol 3, No 1
- April 1st, 2022 @Electronic Design eBook Vol 3, No 2
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William G. Wong
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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.
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