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Servo Magazine - January 2010

2009-12-24T23:38:54Z

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Servo Magazine - January 2010

This month's Features & Articles

- Hacker Dojos offer Collaboration Opps for Robot Hobbyists
- Simple Sensor Interface
- Self Similar Optimization
- Digilent’s Robot Starter Kit
- From Autonomy to Symbiosis: Some Thoughts on the Complexities of Networked Robots
- Optics for Your Robot Using a Webcam
- Tips for Selecting DC Motors for Your Mobile Robot

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Maxim - January 2010

2009-12-24T15:19:04Z

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Maxim - January 2010

In this Issue:

Olivia Munn, January 2010

Wet & Wild
Olivia Munn - The cohost of G4's Attack of the Show!

Plus:

• 16 Pages of Miami's Hottest Bikini Girls
• UFC Knockout Rachelle Leah
• Robbing Paris Hilton & the Hangover Survival Guide

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Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld

2009-12-20T21:06:07Z

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Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld

You may have heard about "cyber warfare" in the news, but do you really know what it is? This book provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world are using the Internet as an attack platform to gain military, political, and economic advantages over their adversaries. You'll learn how sophisticated hackers working on behalf of states or organized crime patiently play a high-stakes game that could target anyone, regardless of affiliation or nationality. Inside Cyber Warfare goes beyond the headlines of attention-grabbing DDoS attacks and takes a deep look inside multiple cyber-conflicts that occurred from 2002 through summer 2009. - Learn how cyber attacks are waged in open conflicts, including recent hostilities between Russia and Georgia, and Israel and Palestine - Discover why Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Vkontakte, and other sites on the social web are mined by the intelligence services of many nations - Read about China's commitment to penetrate the networks of its technologically superior adversaries as a matter of national survival - Find out why many attacks originate from servers in the United States, and who's responsible - Learn how hackers are "weaponizing" malware to attack vulnerabilities at the application level

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Everyday Practical Electronics - January 2010

2009-12-16T02:07:34Z

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Everyday Practical Electronics - January 2010

Projects and Circuits

REMOTE-CONTROLLED MAINS SWITCH by John Clarke 10
Switch mains appliances on and off remotely

UHF REMOTE MAINS SWITCH TRANSMITTER by John Clarke 21
Will operate the Remote-Controlled Mains Switch over a 200m range

PLAYBACK ADAPTER FOR CD-ROM DRIVES – PART 2 by Mauro Grassi 26
Use old CD-ROM drives as CD players with remote control

12V – 24V HIGH-CURRENT MOTOR SPEED CONTROLLER – PART 2 34
by Mauro Grassi
Rated at up to 40A, with speed regulation, automatic soft-start and digital display

INGENUITY UNLIMITED 72
Wartbox; AV Selector

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Nuts and Volts - December 2009

2009-12-05T07:08:44Z

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Nuts and Volts - December 2009

Features

A 16-Bit Micro Experimenter for Solderless Breadboards
by Tom Kibalo
Ready to move up to 16-bit stuff? Well, we've got the perfect Experimenter for you, along with some cool applications to get your feet wet. Page 35

Projects
Recycled Electronics
Nuts & Volts Special
by Paul Sharp
Combine a used cat food can, a 25-year old CMOS chip, and a handful of components, and you too can make your neighborhood school buses safer! Page 28

Keyboard Game Interface
Computer Related
by Jochen Jahn
Simulate keyboard strokes using inputs on a microcontroller to fly your (simulated) place. Page 30

Experiments with Alternative Energy: Part 5
Nuts & Volts Special
by John Gavlik
Learn the fundamentals of renewable energy through this educational series. This month: Experimenting with the Double Wide Sun Tracker. Page 40

Columns
Techknowledgey
by Jeff Eckert
Techknowledgery 2009 | December 2009
Topics covered include a $10 million buzz, adapter to simplify sharing digital content, vintage Mac fetches $8260, plus other stuff. Page 10

Smiley’s Workshop
by Joe Pardue
Smileys Workshop: An AVR C Programming Series (Part 17)
Simple motor speed control using the Arduino. Page 14

Q&A
by Russell Kincaid
Q&A | December 2009
Wind chime light show, DC-to-DC converter, bug zapper, plus more. Page 22

The Design Cycle
by Fred Eady
Find the HIDden virtues of USB
While we were extolling the virtues of USB as an RS-232 killer, we were totally ignoring one of USB’s greatest strengths: the HID class. Page 49

Personal Robotics
by Vern Graner
The Parallax Stingray Robot
Stronger than a BOEBOT, more powerful than a pen-wielding Scribbler, easier to carry than a QuadRover, the Parallax Stingray mobile robotic platform has landed! Page 56

PICAXE Primer
by Ron Hackett
Interfacing Seven-Segment LCD Displays
This time,we’re going to experiment with interfacing seven-segment LED displays with PICAXE processors.To explore the basic concepts involved, we’ll begin with the simplest case: interfacing a single-digit LED display with a 20M processor. Page 62

Open Communication
by Louis E. Frenzel
New Integrated Circuits Make Wireless Easier
The one thing that has made wireless so easy to implement everywhere is the integrated circuit. The single chip radio transceiver is a common device and it is available in many forms to give us the huge number of communications options we have today. Page 68

Departments
Developing Perspectives | December 2009
by Bryan Bergeron

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Elektor December 2009

2009-12-04T22:47:19Z

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Table of Contents Elektor December 2009

•Another two NC Headphones
Testing models from Creative and Bose

•BLDC and PIM modules added to RS Components’ EDP
E-Labs Inside section

•Bluetooth with the ATM18
The Vikings Are Coming!

•Christmas Circuit Collection
10 circuits

•Elektor Developers’ Conference Edition 01
E-Labs Inside section

•Hexadoku December 2009
Puzzle with an electronics touch

•Home Automation Standards
Roadmap or Tower of Babylon?

•Mailbox December 2009

•Minimalistic Time Switch
A lot of features in a small package

•Open Standards for the Automated Home
X10, KNX and DigitalSTROM

•Preselector for Elektor SDR
Here’s the automatic tuning upgrade!

•Squeezing Out the Last Drop
How to make your electronic devices even more energy efficient

•The Z550M: an unusual counter valve (ca. 1959)
Retronics section

•Top-of-the-Bill Lights Sequencer
Programmable fairy lights

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Beware the Posers!

2009-11-22T04:47:54Z

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For 28 years, the International Information Guild (IIRG),
sought the boundaries of technical exploration and knowledge.

But, just as we expected,
some social deviants have arisen claiming to be IIRG.

The self proclaimed leader of this band of posers seems to be an agent provocateur,
who likes stirring up trouble just for the fun of doing so.

If anyone or any collective claims to be IIRG,
they are liars and poser!

The ONLY authorized IIRG sites are:

http://www.digivill.net/~iirg/
http://iirg.blogbugs.org/
http://iirglabs.livejournal.com/
http://www.cafepress.com/iirg
http://www.myspace.com/iirg
http://iirg.livejournal.com/

There may be several member legacy sites, I've forgotten to list,
if you have any questions on a site or individual,
contact the group account at: iirg@yahoo.com

Mercenary/IIRG

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Circuit Cellar Magazine - April 2008

2008-04-14T21:50:36Z

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Circuit Cellar Magazine - April 2008
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Offers hands-on applications and solutions for embedded-control designers.

So who is likely to enjoy this magazine? Serious electronics hobbyists, for sure, garage robot-builders and gadgeteers, engineering
students at any level (grade school to grad school), and the people who teach those students - or at least try to keep up. It's probably
good for consultants who do electronic prototypes and one-offs, where fast turnaround and proof of principle matters more than volume
production or FAA certification. And I bet it's good for any hardware engineer who wants to know more about software, or vice versa. It's
for anyone who thinks embedded system development is just plain fun, if you do it right.

Who's not going to read this? Well, it's not a trade rag, so there's nothing about industrial deals and dealmakers. It's not an academic
journal, and math is at the upper-high school level, at most. It's not for the hardened pro, except maybe as a way to unwind from a day of
serious engineering or research.

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Secrets of the Ninja: Their Training, Tools and Techniques

2008-04-08T15:38:43Z

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Secrets of the Ninja: Their Training, Tools and Techniques
ISBN: 0972312463 | PDF

Fun, accessible introduction to the world of the ninja. Ninjutsu is an arsenal of martial arts moves--and also a set of methods for surviving in the wild, accupressure, meditation, diet and exercise. Japan's legendary spies spring to life in hundreds of full color photographs of a Ninja's home with all its tricks and traps; Ninja codes and secret languages; ingenious weapons and gadgets; techniques for stealth, fighting dirty, and making getaways; Ninja navigation.

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Hacking the PSP

2008-04-07T02:11:36Z

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We are just indexing other sites contents.

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Hacking the PSP Cool Hacks, Mods & Customizations
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Get ready to make the most of Sony’s awesome entertainment device, and hacker’s dream - the PSP. Hacking the PSP covers everything you need to know to:

Transfer video and DVDs to your PSP
Transfer audio books and text
Hack the games you play every day (including using the PSP as an XBox game save device)
Move your TiVo and Replay TV shows to your PSP
Convert your DVDs to run on your PSP
Create your own quick-charge battery packs
Learn how to program the PSP
Repair your PSP
Create your own hacks and run homebrew software
Find all the online and offline resources you need

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More Rumors

2008-04-04T19:55:34Z

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(All I said is Nancy Pelosi could use a makeover!)

As many individuals know, the IIRG has ties to the survivalist community.
Many of our interests often coincide, and we use their resources to our benefit.

While gathering Intelligence information for interested parties,
we ran across the information we have been warning of.

Besides the obvious rumors of war:

Israel’s security cabinet convened Wednesday, April 2, to examine the homeland’s preparedness for war.
(Must be taken with a grain of salt - It's from DEBKAfile)

Bomb, Bomb, Iran?
(As this article points out, most Americans remain largely focused on the presidential election)

North Korea issues new warning to Seoul
(Where is Team America when you need them?)

The item of interest to us and others in the "underground" community is the "C & R" document currently circulating among senior members of Congress.
"C & R" stands for "Conflict and Revolution".
It reports that if the United States defaults on loans and debt underwriting from China, Japan, and Russia,
we can expect a war that will have disastrous results for the United States and the world.
The other scenario is that the federal government will be forced to drastically raise taxes in order to pay off the debts to foreign countries to
the point that the American people will react with a popular revolution against the government.
This report along with some reports we have read out of the Congressional Research Service (CRS),
points to a systematic "cleansing" (incarceration or execution) of potential domestic troublemakers

Anyone who receives the label of a survivalist, militia member, tax evader , or has a general anti-government attitude will be arrested as a domestic terrorist.
Anyone supporting these individuals will be arrested for giving comfort and aid to the enemy.

If this situation develops further, we may have no choice but to "disappear" as the case may be.
We will provide updates as long as we can do so.

(Watch Your Top Knot)

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Ham Radio for Dummies

2008-04-02T16:13:40Z

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Ham Radio for Dummies
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It’s time we cleared the air about ham radio.
If you think of it as staticky transmissions sent by people in the middle of nowhere, think again.
Today’s ham radio goes beyond wireless to extreme wireless, Operators transmit data and pictures, use the Internet, laser, and microwave transmitters, and travel to places high and low to make contact.
In an emergency or natural disaster, ham radio can replace downed traditional communication and save lives.
Whether you’re just getting turned on to ham radio or already have your license, Ham Radio for Dummies helps you with the terminology, the technology and the talknology.

You discover how to:

Decipher the jargon and speak the language
Buy or upgrade your equipment, including the all-important antennas
Build a ham radio shack, complete with the rig, a computer, mobile/base rig, microphones, keys, headphones, antennas, cables and feedlines
Study for your license, master Morse code, take the test and get your call sign
Understand the basics of ragchews (conversations), nets (organized on-air meetings) and DX-ing (competing in contacts to make contacts)
Keeping logs with the vital statistics, including time (in UTC or World Time), frequency, and call sign

Written by Ward Silver, an electrical engineer, Certified Amateur Radio License Examiner, and columnist for QST, a monthly magazine for ham operators, Ham Radio for Dummies gives you the info you need to delve into the science or dive into the conversation. It explains how you can: Tune in to the most common types of signals, including Morse Code (CW), single-sideband (SSB), FM, Radioteletype (RTTY), and data signals Break in, introduce yourself, converse, and say or signal goodbye Communicate while traveling (ham radio goes where mobile phones go dead) Register with an emergency organization such as ARES and RACES Help in emergencies such as earthquakes, wildfires, or severe weather Pursue your special interests, including contacting distant stations, participating in contests, exploring the digital modes, using satellites, transmitting images, and more Complete with a glossary and ten pages of additional suggested resources, Ham Radio for Dummies encourages you to touch that dial and take that mike.

CUL. (That’s Morse Code for “see you later.”)

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Ninja: Power of the mind

2008-04-02T02:07:43Z

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Ninja: Power of the mind
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Disclosed for the first time are actual training methods for tapping the mystical forces within. Breathing techniques, Meditation and Kuji-kiri hand symbols are covered in the text with diagrams and photographs. A trained Ninja mind can learn to control animals, endure pain, turn invisible, read minds and stun or injure opponents with a touch, shout or even a look.

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Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice

2008-03-31T05:54:05Z

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Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, 1st Edition
ISBN: 0133755363 | PDF | 19 Mb

Covers the design fundamentals of cellular systems, including issues of frequency reuse, channel assignments, radio propagation, and both analog and digital modulation techniques.

From the Back Cover

As cellular telephones become commonplace business tools, interest in wireless technology is booming. This book responds to that demand with a comprehensive survey of the field, suitable for educational or technical use. Materials are drawn from academic and business sources, numerous journals, and an IEEE professional reader. Extensively illustrated, Wireless Communications is filled with examples and problems, solved step by step and clearly explained.

Wireless Communications covers the design fundamentals of cellular systems, including issues of frequency reuse, channel assignments, radio propagation, and both analog and digital modulation techniques. Speech coding, channel coding, diversity, spread spectrum, and multiple access are also discussed. A separate chapter is devoted to wireless networking, including SS7 and ISDN.

Beyond theory, Wireless Communications offers practical reference sections, including:
Complete technical standards for cellular, cordless telephone, and personal communications systems
International standards for Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region
Noise figure calculations and Gaussian approximations of spread spectrum CDMA interference
Mathematical tables, identities, and the Q, erf, and erf functions
Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms
Full list of references

This book is designed for use in graduate and undergraduate classrooms, but is also suitable for use by professional engineers and technicians. It can be used for both teaching and reference, and is also appropriate for the interested cellular phone consumer who wants to understand the technology.

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Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design

2008-03-28T06:34:03Z

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Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
ISBN-10: 158053502X | PDF

Reference offers engineers a comprehensive understanding of radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design. Covers the full range of RFICs, including more than 400 equations and more than 300 illustrations. DLC: Radio frequency integrated circuits–Design and construction.

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Reference offers engineers a comprehensive understanding of radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design. Covers the full range of RFICs, including more than 400 equations and more than 300 illustrations. DLC: Radio frequency integrated circuits–Design and construction.

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Defending the Digital Frontier: A Security Agenda

2008-03-25T15:41:51Z

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Defending the Digital Frontier: A Security Agenda
ISBN: 0471221449 | PDF

Praise for Defending the Digital Frontier

"The charge of securing corporate America falls upon its business leaders. This book, offered by Ernst & Young and written by Mark Doll, Sajay Rai, and Jose Granado, is not only timely, but comprehensive in outlook and broad in scope. It addresses many of the critical security issues facing corporate America today and should be read by responsible senior management."
–Rudolph W. Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York

"Security is no longer just a technical issue. It needs to be managed holistically across physical and digital infrastructures as part of a wider program of risk management. That’s exactly what CA’s eTrust security solutions deliver. This is a must-read for all executives that have spent millions on information technology and have not thought about the risks. This book is a wake-up call to busy executives that think their digital assets are secure."
–Sanjay Kumar
President and CEO

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Fundamentals of Communications Systems

2008-03-21T14:26:34Z

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Fundamentals of Communications Systems
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Get a Solid Account of Physical Layer Communications Theory, Illustrated with Numerous Interactive MATLAB Mini-Projects

You can rely on Fundamentals of Communications Systems for a solid introduction to physical layer communications theory, filled with modern implementations and MATLAB examples. This state-of-the-art guide covers essential theory and current engineering practice, carefully explaining the real-world tradeoffs necessary among performance, spectral efficiency, and complexity.

Written by an award-winning communications expert, the book first takes readers through analog communications basics, amplitude modulations, analog angle modulation, and random processes. This essential resource then explains noise in bandpass communications systems…bandpass Gaussian random processes…digital communications basics…complexity of optimum demodulation…spectrally efficient data transmission...and more. Fundamentals of Communications Systems features:

A modern approach to communications theory, reflecting current engineering applications
Numerous MATLAB problems integrated throughout, with software available for download
Detailed coverage of tradeoffs among performance, spectral efficiency, and complexity in engineering design
Text written in four parts for easy modular presentation
Inside This On-Target Communications Engineering Tool

• Mathematical Foundations • Analog Communications Basics • Amplitude Modulations • Analog Angle Modulation • More Topics in Analog Communications • Random Processes • Noise in Bandpass Communications Systems • Bandpass Gaussian Random Processes • Digital Communications Basics • Optimal Single Bit Demodulation Structures • Transmitting More than One Bit • Complexity of Optimum Demodulation • Spectrally Efficient Data Transmission

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LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide

2008-03-21T03:41:48Z

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LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide
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The reader of this book will be someone looking for more detailed information on the NXT-G programming language used to program the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics kit.

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming Guide is suitable for young programmers, age 10 and up, as well as parents and teachers who want to learn the new language for themselves or be able to assist students/children with learning to properly program their robots.

* Includes easy-to-follow examples for each and every programming block
* Provides programming techniques simple enough to be understood by young programmers, age 10 and up.
* Provides a test robot (with instructions) in the appendix for running the programs

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Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten

2008-03-18T16:25:51Z

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Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
ISBN: 978-1-4243-0080-8 | PDF

This is a fascinating book, perhaps best reviewed as a combination of books: (1) an autobiography of a scientist-physician studying chemical warfare agents from 1961 to 1971, (2) a collection of vignettes of fellow scientists he encountered, (3) a polemic against the aversion of politicians and the public to all chemical weapons, and, (4) a reference book on more than a dozen low lethality belladonnoids (atropine-like drugs such as BZ) and their antidotes (such as physostigmine), as well as valuable data on other mind-altering substances such as LSD-25, cannabinoids (marijuana-like drugs), butyrophenones (antipsychotic drugs) and even the most common disabling agent: alcohol.
His vignettes of fellow scientists also bring back memories of many departed friends and colleagues and a few (Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, for example) that seem indestructible.

Ketchum’s selective defense of certain forms of chemical warfare strikes a sympathetic chord. While I was at Edgewood, we were preoccupied with the lethal nerve gas variously known as diisopropyl flurophosphonate, sarin or GB. From what I learned, I believed that death from nerve gas would be preferable to being incinerated by napalm or taking a phosphorus bullet in the gut. Of course, the newer low lethality agents seem even more humane. The book’s prologue, “Hot Night in Fallujah,” creates a compelling scenario involving a carefully planned attack with sufentanil, one of the more recent agents, a highly potent analogue of fentanyl and a relative of morphine. Not only is its disabling dose considerably lower than the lethal dose, but an effective antidote (naloxone) is available to reverse its effects.

Fascinating as Dr. Ketchum’s stories of his adventures in the Army Chemical Corps may be, and as important his defense of the military use of the “gentler” incapacitating chemical agents, I suspect that the most lasting value of this book will lie in the details of the actual studies done with these pharmacological substances. The experiments with Army volunteers were remarkable for the care with which they were designed and carried out. The last 80 pages of the close to 400-page volume are set aside as a technical appendix, containing many details of the actual studies and summary graphs and tables of the extensive data gathered. But it is the verbatim record of the responses of numerous volunteers, while intoxicated with various psychochemical agents, and which are scattered throughout the earlier informal narrative chapters of his historical chronicle, that will be particularly invaluable if similar research with chemical warfare agents is ever revived.

Finally, this variegated volume will correct some of the many errors, misconceptions and outright lies that have grown up around the Edgewood Arsenal research program. A combination of a sensation seeking press, compensation seeking litigators and mawkish anti-military “bleeding hearts” has resulted in massive misinformation. One can only hope that this persuasive book will set some of the record straight.

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Robotics: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery

2008-03-16T18:43:37Z

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Robotics: Designing the Mechanisms for Automated Machinery
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Description: Robotics, Second Edition is an essential addition to the toolbox of any engineer or hobbyist involved in the design of any type of robot or automated mechanical system. It is the only book available that takes the reader through a step-by step design process in this rapidly advancing specialty area of machine design.
This book provides the professional engineer and student with important and detailed methods and examples of how to design the mechanical parts of robots and automated systems. Most robotics and automation books today emphasis the electrical and control aspects of design without any practical coverage of how to design and build the components, the machine or the system. The author draws on his years of industrial design experience to show the reader the design process by focusing on the real, physical parts of robots and automated systems.

* Answers the questions: How are machines built? How do they work? How does one best approach the design process for a specific machine?
* Thoroughly updated with new coverage of modern concepts and techniques, such as rapid modeling, automated assembly, parallel-driven robots and mechatronic systems
* Calculations for design completed with Mathematica which will help the reader through its ease of use, time-saving methods, solutions to nonlinear equations, and graphical display of design processes
* Use of real-world examples and problems that every reader can understand without difficulty
* Large number of high-quality illustrations
* Self-study and homework problems are integrated into the text along with their solutions so that the engineering professional and the student will each find the text very useful

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Future Trends in Microelectronics: Up the Nano Creek

2008-03-15T00:36:54Z

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Future Trends in Microelectronics: Up the Nano Creek
ISBN:0470081465 | PDF

In this book leading profesionals in the semiconductor microelectronics field discuss the future evolution of their profession. The following are some of the questions discussed:
Does CMOS technology have a real problem?
Do transistors have to be smaller or just better and made of better materials?
What is to come after semiconductors?
Superconductors or molecular conductors?
Is bottom-up self-assembling the answer to the limitation of top-down lithography?
Is it time for Optics to become a force in computer evolution?
Quantum Computing, Spintronics?
Where is the printable plastic electronics proposed 10 years ago?
Are carbon nanotube transistors the CMOS of the future?

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Anatomy of A Robot

2008-03-14T16:34:57Z

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Anatomy of A Robot
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This work looks under the hood of all robotic projects, stimulating teachers, students, and hobbyists to learn more about the gamut of areas associated with control systems and robotics.
It offers a unique presentation in providing both theory and philosophy in a technical yet entertaining way.

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Google Hacking for Penetration Testers

2008-03-13T00:20:31Z

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Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
ISBN: 1-931836-36-1 | PDF

IIRG Note: As we have often stated there is no such thing as blackhat hackers and grayhat hackers, only computer criminals and identity thieves.
There is also no such thing as a whitehat hackers, only security consultants, penetration testers, and sellouts.

There is a VERY SMALL minority of what can be called "hackers".
These are individuals who access a computer system and you never know they were there.
These individuals usually have a love of technology and have no lofty profiteering goals.
They are not media whores and do NOT make unsubstantiated claims or make vague generalizations.

If an individual gets caught accessing a system for information he can sell, that individual is a computer criminal.
If a "hacker" gets caught on a system, it means they screwed up.
These computer criminals then turn their adventures into a lucrative book or movie deal.
Some run the full gambit and call themselves "whitehat hackers" and start security consultant or penetration testing businesses.

This book is for the wannabe sellouts.

Google Hacking for Penetration Testers explores the explosive growth of a technique known as "Google Hacking." This simple tool can be bent by hackers and those with malicious intents to find hidden information, break into sites, and access supposedly secure information. Borrowing the techniques pioneered by malicious "Google hackers," this book aims to show security practitioners how to properly protect clients from this often overlooked and dangerous form of information leakage.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Google Searching Basics
Chapter 02 - Advanced Operators
Chapter 03 - Google Hacking Basics
Chapter 04 - Network Mapping
Chapter 05 - Locating Exploits and Finding Targets
Chapter 06 - Ten Simple Security Searches That Work
Chapter 07 - Tracking Down Web Servers, Login Portals, and Network Hardware
Chapter 08 - Usernames, Passwords, and Secret Stuff, Oh My!
Chapter 09 - Document Grinding and Database Digging
Chapter 10 - Protecting Yourself from Google Hackers
Chapter 11 - Automating Google Searches
Appendix A - Professional Security Testing
Appendix B - An Introduction to Web Application Security

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Dictionary of Aviation

2008-03-09T21:15:13Z

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Dictionary of Aviation
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This up-to-date dictionary of aviation and aeronautical English contains more than 9,500 terms and is designed for those specializing in aviation and related industries, including trainee pilots, cabin crews, maintenance crews, ground staff, and other airline personnel. Ideal for professionals, aviation enthusiasts, those who are new to aviation, and those for whom English is not a first language, this practical reference features clear, simple definitions. Sample sentences, pronunciation guides, usage guides, and supplementary information accompany not only basic terms but also specialized technical vocabulary.

IIRG SIGINT DIVISION NOTE:

We received several e-mails from individuals monitoring aeronautical transmissions who asked for this companion dictionary of aviation and aeronautical terms.
The IIRG SIGINT unit hopes this will help those individuals who have contacted us about terminology used on aviation and aeronautical transmissions.

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Dictionary of Military Terms - Third Edition

2008-03-09T08:24:19Z

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Dictionary of Military Terms - Third Edition
ISBN:190497015X | PDF

Ideal for anyone learning English for military purposes, foreign nationals working with English- speaking military personnel, and civilian professionals working with military accounts, this reference provides up-to-date definitions of more than 6,000 American, British, and international military terms. Topics include tactics, weapons, commands, machinery, military personnel, maneuvers, and geographical vocabulary.

IIRG SIGINT DIVISION NOTE:

Military radios in the US armed forces commonly use encryption and frequency hopping methods to provide an additional layer of security during transmission of the encrypted signal.

However, security afforded by frequency-hopping methods is very dependant on the strict adherence to protocols for operating such radios.
Soldiers and contract operators of frequency-hopping radio sets frequently disregard these protocols.

While we don't expect the novice hacker to be intercepting and decrypting transmissions with a wideband receiver,
we do expect this will help those individuals who have contacted us about terminology used on open and incorrect protocol transmissions.

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