Once the configuration was done, the only thing left to do was plug in the fiber! As you can see, a few Nerstrand Elementary School students happily helped out with this process. With a simple, positive “click” of the fiber-optic patch cable into the transceiver, Nerstrand completed their upgrade from the two trunked T-1 lines offering about 3Mbps of bandwidth, to the 10000Mbps of bandwidth now at their disposal. The speed is exciting, but even more exciting is the capacity this line will give the School for bringing in more devices and perhaps even having a one device per student option down the road. Thanks Amelia and Stefan!
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My Humble “Thanks”
Homemade Solar Tracker
Stealing 3D Models by Audio Recording a 3D Printer
A bright professor at the University of California-Irvine discovered it’s possible to steal the design of a 3D model by simply doing an audio recording of the 3D printer printing it. Apparently, they have demonstrated a 90% accuracy of model reconstruction using this technique. Simply having an employee working at a manufacturing facility with a cell phone on them could invite the possibility of industrial espionage if they were to give such a recording to a competitor. Fascinating proof of concept!
A Good Knight to Use the 3D Printer
A spiral-inspired knight, today’s 3D printing project with my #M3D. Turned out great!
There’s Wisdom in Knowing Nothing
I post this as the truth I have discovered in the IT industry, and I’m pretty sure it carries over to all people over all careers. We start out in the “I know nothing” (discovery) phase, followed by the “I’m an expert” (cocky) phase, followed once again by the “I know nothing” (only scratched the surface) phase. While we all gain more expertise over time, the more important thing we gain is wisdom. We begin to realize as we get older how much more there really is to know, and how little we actually know in comparison. One of life’s lessons put very easily on a graph.