Entries for December 2011

I used to have an old Motorola cell phone, actually it wasn't even a phone, back then it was called a DPC - "Digital Personal Communicator", which in my mind sounds much more scientific than a modern "cell phone". This is used to be an awesome piece of equipment back in its day (actually it was the smallest  phone in 1989). However, it's quite useless now since it does not support m... [Read the rest of this blog...]

You may or may not be surprised to learn  that beer and bacon rank highly on the favorite things list of many a DMC employee. So when we heard that Paddy Long's, a Lakeview neighborhood pub, hosts a regular Beer and Bacon Tasting, we booked a DMC social outing. Nearly twenty DMC employees and friends enjoyed the tasting of five cuts of bacon paired with five beers. The entire ... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Since joining the DMC team, I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to a wide variety of awesome projects and learn several new technologies. During a recent embedded design project, I was tasked with converting our circuit schematic to a printed circuit board (PCB) layout using a software package called Altium Designer. Altium is a very powerful tool for schematic capture and layout (as well as FP... [Read the rest of this blog...]

"A chicken in every pot and a display on every wall." -Herbert Hoover President Hoover was a prescient and oft-misquoted man. Fortunately for us, DMC has realized his vision of liquid crystal abundance. DMC's new office is full of displays. Displays on desks, displays on walls, and displays in pockets. With this embarrassment of riches comes great responsibility. A responsibility t... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.  

We didn’t receive a lot of reader-feedback to last month's Geek Challenge.  Some questioned the assumptions involved, and some guesses were taken.  Here is my analysis of the problem: The Deer Dilemma asks about the probability of collision between a car traveling an unspecified speed and a number of deer traveling at unspecified speed and route.  The primary challenge is fi... [Read the rest of this blog...]

After the success of DMC's first FedEx Day earlier this year, we were excited to hold our second edition a few weeks ago. A FedEx Day is reserved for everyone to devote an entire day working on a company improvement project that personally inspires them. It's called a FedEx Day because the person or team must deliver something the next day, although there is some upfront prep t... [Read the rest of this blog...]