CYBERNETICS & MICROSOFT WINDOWS

Joe A repeated his promise this time referring to "deliver DC-60GHz IC

by Friday, if not then Monday" and having 1 sample already, waiting for 3 to

add.

After I mentioned A tech's management going to MTTS in CA, he was so

excited that he said it's possible he will see ad there & hand over

samples, IF his agent can't make it to Lincoln Ave. by Friday.

Whatever. It's free so he is taking as much time as he pleases!

As of EEG development:

FYI:

Last year I was interviewed by Grass Instrument's worst competitor, on

Island however (Grass is in RI, not far from Vishay-Dale corp. whose

passive Components foundry I also visited, in Warwick).

The job involved very high power yet low freq. amps, over 100Watt

definitely, I was told scores of applicants were rejected & so was I - due

to lack of experience in extremely high power amps. They're used in

Surgeries & Pain Relief (EM pulse kills nerves or heats up precise

areas). I did NOT even apply, some recruiter forced me saying I might fit

(as usual recruiters have no technical background and make assumption about

clients that they fit into whatever).

So interviewer started making circles around A tech & Nano on my

Resume

God, I started pitching about A tech's "Lowest Noise " so

hard, that he spent time discussing A tech, then between words he asked

what circuits part# we used at Nano .

Inquisitive interviewer - likes to get information, even if not hiring. So,

not sure how everything is connected - but I tried to lodge a promotion for

A tech in his mind, because they do NOT make amps, they USE them &

PATTERN GENERATORS by ordering from someone else, they use them in ECG, EEG,

Surgery, Pain Relief.

And here's the surprise!

There's a co. here in Haupp , ny RIGHT NEXT TO EQ Inc. It's called

xx Systems and it does nerve signals reading from patients (to check if

the guy on operating table is dead or still functioning & how well). It

used to be located at the END of O er Avenue facing New Highway (woods),

but they moved close to teq recently (b/c original location was

"boondocks" (?).

I was there a few years after college (in ), and have knowledge of how

product works. Much of it is covered by NDA, so it's closed for you. But

some things are called "experience" & that I can share - legally, as a

Designer.

Next,

For mixed Ana-Digital Systems, as your Cybernetics project appears to be (?)

what I I've experienced in the past 2 years is:

The best Patents or IT protection is by using Firmware. Hardware will be

inevitably copied one day, esp. by countries on the "rise" (China) to whom

reverse engineering is accepted behavior (but never forget their

contribution to US economy in a form of cheapo engineers & scientists, 40%

of Microsoft's global workforce is Asian!). Because theoretically one

cannot crack firmware once it's compiled into hashcode. You can ask Mick if

I said something "cryptic'!

I did Firmware for 2 companies in recent 2 years, focusing on Microchip

Technology Inc. as the MCU vendor (MCU is the IC chip you write firmware

for). Some people prefer Motorola, TexasInstruments, Atmel (big competitor

for Microchip); and some people do it whole life as a career so they know

multiple vendors.

So why I wrote so much today?

I think your project brings back good memories from decades ago and it looks

like going in circles except each decade on a higher level.

MIND CONTROL OF HOME APPLIANCES, OR ANY OTHER TARGET WAS FLOATING AROUND

SINCE BEFORE WORLD WAR II. All my conscious life in Europe I was subscribed

to popular magazines what you call in America "Popular Electronics", and

stuff, but no longer published here (UK & Germany still publish such

magazines b/c their population unlike Americans is still interested).

So one month in late 1980's (when I was a teen) they were writing about

mind-controlled projects, 30 years ago MCU's & uP's (Microcontrollers &

Microprocessors) were expensive, so control was basically "ON"/'"OFF" type

of thing. For example, turn light on or off, start train replica running or

stop it, it was as useful as turning light on/off by clapping your hands or

making sound, or when a human passes by (infrared, heat, capacitive,

inductive, etc coupling) so why bother with such finicky, costly yet limited

mind control? It was pretty useless. considering cost vs. usefulness. But

guys were playing with it for the same reason Bell was playing with

telephone & Edison was playing with electric bulbs prototypes centurie(s)

ago.

This is what propels progress.

So now when you started talking "Cybernetics" - this & Robotics was already

superhot after World War II, but then it became another fad fading away,

then another cycle - each time we get to a higher level.

So it's back! Mind-control has been preoccupying engineers for a long time,

only thing I fear is giving it to a Fighterjet/Bomber Pilot and weapons to

be activated b/c mind control is unreliable. People can have

wrong thoughts & individual peculiarities, epileptics can completely screw

up a Mind-Reading headset, so it's 'Determinism" is very low comparing to

just pushing a button/joystick (HID device) or speaking with your voice

(voice recognition). It's a dangerous thing but great b/c it creates jobs &

helps handicapped people.

Its use for handicapped & military was discussed in my memory in 1980's even

in popular magazines, let alone serious academic ones. Even Government was

excited, b/c most people think it can be "deterministic". In actuality

it's not quite deterministic yet - the error rate when you think "turn

AirConditioner on" can be satisfactory, but for complex things like "write

"hello" on screen" is so complex that best minds work on it and still we use

keyboards & mice!.

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Stan Starinski

Web: http://www.Interengineers.org http://www.Nanoinfocenter.com Currently OFF for

maintenance

Consulting Engineer (EE+ME, ECAD+MCAD [3D/2D]), R&D + Prototype,

Embedded/Firmware ["C" or ASM for Microcontrollers], computers).

No kevin, it's you the moron,

Stan always writes good stuff, I like him.

He is smart.