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Entries for December 2011

Tired of "Hands Free?" - How About a "Hands Full" Solution?

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...


Beer, and Bacon, and DMC

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, ...


Exploring Altium: Pin Swapping

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 printe...


Media Signage Streaming Content Coming to an Office Near You

"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 ...


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


Geek Challenge Results: Deer Dilemma

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 collisio...


DMC FedEx Day Redux

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 inspir...