Saturday, February 04, 2006
Chips in Space
By now you've probably heard about the spacesuit that was converted to a radio transmitter and released from the space station. If you haven't, click on the link. Go ahead, I'll wait.
OK, ready now? Anyway, you can thank Microchip Technologies for volunteering their services to the effort. Led by engineer Steven Bible and supported by upper management, a group up Microchip's engineers developed the switch and controller boxes for the spacesuit/radio station and programmed the recorded greetings into its memory.
The mission was a success!
Edit: Well, mostly a success.
OK, ready now? Anyway, you can thank Microchip Technologies for volunteering their services to the effort. Led by engineer Steven Bible and supported by upper management, a group up Microchip's engineers developed the switch and controller boxes for the spacesuit/radio station and programmed the recorded greetings into its memory.
The mission was a success!
Edit: Well, mostly a success.
