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The news of the passing of the Dutch engineer who invented the audio Compact Cassette, Lou Ottens, got me to thinking how useful and handy these were back in the day and efficient - even a provision to prevent accidental ereasure. The quality of the audio wasn't up there with reel-to-reel, but they paved they way for portable music. Even after portable compact disc (which Mr. Ottens was involved in the development of) players came out, portable cassette players were the best way to go - easier to fit into a pocket and slower battery drain - though it took many years to get the player down to the size of the cassette itself. Until at least MP3 players came out, which like everything else digital revolutionized everything.
My first pass at the building was only three stories, then I added an additional three. If I had to fit the building in a more compact space or if looked out of place in a layout, I could go back to three.
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Date of first registration: 20th May 1999.
Registration region: Chelmsford.
Latest recorded mileage: 126,397 (MOT 10th June 2019).
Last V5 issued: 20th June 2020.
Date taken: 8th July 2020.
Album: Carspotting
A compact experiment aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for future space missions is operational in Europe’s Columbus module of the International Space Station, running in part on a Raspberry Pi Zero computer costing just a few euros.
“Our CryptIC experiment is testing technological solutions to make encryption-based secure communication feasible for even the smallest of space missions,” explains ESA software product assurance engineer Emmanuel Lesser. “This is commonplace on Earth, using for example symmetric encryption where both sides of the communication link share the same encryption key.
“In orbit the problem has been that space radiation effects can compromise the key within computer memory causing ‘bit-flips’. This disrupts the communication, as the key on ground and the one in space no longer match. Up to now this had been a problem that requires dedicated – and expensive – rad-hardened devices to overcome.”
Satellites in Earth orbit might be physically remote, but still potentially vulnerable to hacking. Up until recently most satellite signals went unencrypted, and this remains true for many of the smallest, cheapest mission types, such as miniature CubeSats
But as services delivered by satellites of all sizes form an increasing element of everyday life, interest in assured satellite cybersecurity is growing, and a focus of ESA’s new Technology Strategy for this November’s Space19+ Ministerial Council
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CryptIC, or Cryptography ICE Cube, - the beige box towards the top of the image, has been a low-cost development, developed in-house by ESA’s Software Product Assurance section and flown on the ISS as part of the International Commercial Experiments service – ICE Cubes for short. ICE Cubes offer fast, simple and affordable access for research and technology experiments in microgravity using compact cubes. CryptIC measures just 10x10x10 cm.
“A major part of the experiment relies on a standard Raspberry Pi Zero computer,” adds Emmanuel. “This cheap hardware is more or less flying exactly as we bought it; the only difference is it has had to be covered with a plastic ‘conformal’ coating, to fulfil standard ISS safety requirements.”
The orbital experiment is operated simply via a laptop at ESA’s ESTEC
technical centre in the Netherlands, routed via the ICE Cubes operator, Space Applications Services in Brussels.
“We’re testing two related approaches to the encryption problem for non rad-hardened systems,” explains ESA Young Graduate Trainee Lukas Armborst. “The first is a method of re-exchanging the encryption key if it gets corrupted. This needs to be done in a secure and reliable way, to restore the secure link very quickly. This relies on a secondary fall-back base key, which is wired into the hardware so it cannot be compromised. However, this hardware solution can only be done for a limited number of keys, reducing flexibility.
“The second is an experimental hardware reconfiguration approach which can recover rapidly if the encryption key is compromised by radiation-triggered memory ‘bit flips’. A number of microprocessor cores are inside CryptIC as customisable, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), rather than fixed computer chips. These cores are redundant copies of the same functionality. Accordingly, if one core fails then another can step in, while the faulty core reloads its configuration, thereby repairing itself.”
In addition the payload carries a compact ‘floating gate’ dosimeter to measure radiation levels co-developed by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, as part of a broader cooperation agreement
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And as a guest payload, a number of computer flash memories are being evaluated for their orbital performance, a follow-on version of ESA’s ‘Chimera’ experiment which flew on last year’s GomX-4B CubeSat
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The experiment had its ISS-mandated electromagnetic compatibility testing carried out in ESTEC’s EMC Laboratory
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“CryptIC has now completed commissioning and is already returning radiation data, being shared with our CERN colleagues,” adds Emmanuel. “Our encryption testing is set to begin in a few weeks, once we’ve automated the operating process, and is expected to run continuously for at least a year.”
Credits: ESA; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Compact is a neat little studs up font. Basic, but gets the job done. Perfect for signing mosaics.
Try writing with the font or check the details on Swooshable.
This 1 3/8 inch figure is the DC Comics character The Flash as seen in the game HeroClix. The red and yellow streaks behind him are actually tissue paper.
I believe this is the first toy photo I've posted to Flickr that was lit by my camera's flash. I typically use lamps, flashlights, LEDs, etc.
This image is straight out of the camera: no tweaking, no color processing, no cropping, no nothing.
Submitted to the Flickr group 7 Days of Shooting.
Agfa Optima Sensor electronic
A series of cute, very compact viewfinder cameras Agfa launched in 1976. It replaced the former Optima Sensor series (Optima 200 Sensor etc.) and inherited from it the popular red shutter button and the unique film rewind system, where the advance lever is used for rewinding the film aswell. A prominent feature is the huge viewfinder, which claims a fair part of the camera body. Agfa released 6 models, but the last model, without a special name, is a copy of the 535. The difference is, that it was made in Portugal and not in Germany.
The models are called 335, 535, 1035, 1535 and flash, plus the nameless one from Portugal.
Some features they have in common and not already mentioned:
* programmed automatic exposure, Paratronic shutter
* a lens with 40 mm focal length, nearest focus distance is 0.9 m
* zone focusing, except the model with rangefinder. Exact distance scale under the lens.
* hot shoe and selectable f-stop for flash operation, except the model with built-in flash
* underexposure warning, a red LED in the viewfinder
* exposed film is wound into a lightproof container
* cable release socket, tripod bush
* rotating pattern for film advance check
* film speed 25 to 500 ISO
* filter thread 49 mm
* three batteries PX625 are required (except flash model), battery compartment is in the film chamber
The 335 was introduced in 1978 and was the model at the lower end. It has the slowest lens, the single-coated three-element 3.5/40 Agnatar (the instruction manual says that it has 4 elements, but usually the 3-element lenses of Agfa are called Agnar), shutter speeds from 1/30 to 1/300.
The 535 (1976) was slightly advanced. With the single-coated four-element 2.8/40 Solitar it has a better lens, and it has a 1/500 as top speed.
The 1035, also from 1976, has the same lens but multi-coated (Solitar S), the range of shutter speeds increased from 15 s to 1/1000 s. The symbols for zone focusing are also displayed in the viewfinder, additionally there is a green LED for the shutter speeds from 1/30 s or faster. It is the only model which sports a self-timer, amazinlgy it's a mechanical one, at least it has a red LED for countdown.
The 1535 from 1979 has the same lens and the same shutter speeds like the 1035. Instead the symbols for the focus distance in the viewfinder it has a true rangefinder, which makes the viewer a bit dimmer, so some photographers prefer the 1035 over it.
The flash-model is technically a 535 with a folding flash light, and its design looks rather improvised. Some changes had to be made: a battery compartment on the left side for 2 AAA 1.5 V micro cells. The film advance lever needed a new shape, also the cable release socket found a new place. The focus ring moved forward and doubles now as small lens hood. Due to the fact that the aperture ring was dropped I assume that the flash works in flashmatic mode: the setting of the aperture is coupled with the focus distance. It is the only model with strap lugs.
I have also an early model of the 535 in my collection, which reveals that some changes were made: the stability of the tripod socket was improved and the aperture ring got a small grasp. The early pattern on the film advance check was red/black.
Der smarte Micro-Crossover Ignis: Effizienz zum Verlieben.
Kraftstoffverbrauch Suzuki Ignis
1.2 DUALJET HYBRID COMFORT und COMFORT+
(61 kW | 83 PS | 5-Gang-Schaltgetriebe |
Hubraum 1.197 ccm |
Kraftstoffart Benzin): innerstädtisch (langsam) 4,9 l/100 km,
Stadtrand (mittel) 4,2 l/100 km,
Landstraße (schnell) 4,3 l/100 km,
Autobahn (sehr schnell) 5,9 l/100 km,
Kraftstoffverbrauch kombiniert 5,0 l/100 km;
CO₂-Emissionen kombiniert 112 g/km.
Beim Anfahren und Beschleunigen versorgt der ISG den Benzinmotor mit Energie aus der angeschlossenen Batterie.
So erhält der Antrieb im niedrigen und mittleren Drehzahlbereich ( 1.600 - 3.900 rpm ) die nötige Leistung (35Nm) sowie eine verbesserte Kraftstoffeffizienz (minus 11% Verbrauch)
Sinnvolle Assistenz-Systeme
***** NCAP TEST
Not-Stopp-Signal-Leuchten
Bei plötzlichem Bremsen bei einer Geschwindigkeit von über 55 km/h leuchten nicht nur die Bremslichter auf, sondern auch die Warnleuchten beginnen schnell zu blinken, um nachfolgende Fahrzeuge zu warnen.
Notbremssystem mit Kollisionswarner*
Dual-Camera: Front
Zwei Kameras erkennen wie das menschliche Auge vorausfahrende Fahrzeuge, Fussgänger und Fahrspuren. Mithilfe der von den Kameras erfassten Informationen trägt das System dazu bei, durch Warnungen und automatisches Bremsen Kollisionen zu vermeiden.
* nur beim Spitzen-Modell
Compact Top (CH), Comfort Plus (Germany)
Sondermodelle Schweiz:
Ausstattungslinie
Suzuki-Lederkollektion
Gestalten Sie das Interieur nach Ihren Wünschen. Wählen Sie aus 14 verschiedenen Konfigurationen die für Sie passende aus – sei es klassisch unifarben, ein elegantes 2-farbenes Modell, oder die absolute Sportlichkeit in Form einer perforierten Sitzvariante. Die hochwertigen Materialien werten jeden Innenraum auf und verleihen Ihrem Suzuki noch mehr Emotionen, Charakter und Einzigartigkeit.
oder
Piz Sulai® Top
mit exklusiven Dekorelementen und einem attraktiven Zusatzpaket unter anderem mit kostenlosen Winter-Kompletträder.
mit Deluxe-Fussmatten
Hybrid 4x41.2 Hybrid
5-Gang Schaltgetriebe (mit Start-Stopp-Automatik)
5 Türen
83 PS
Leistung
61 kW
CHF 23'990.-
5.0 L / 100 km
Verbrauch
Mild-Hybrid System
Klein, leicht, effizient: Das Suzuki Mild-Hybrid System unterstützt den Motor in fast jeder Fahrsituation. Dadurch werden der Treibstoffverbrauch und der CO2-Ausstoß deutlich reduziert – auch ohne größere Investitionen und ohne jede Einschränkung der Alltagsmobilität.
Autobahn (sehr schnell)
5,7 l/100 km
Spitzengeschwindigkeit
170 km/h
112 g / km
CO2-Emissionen
25 g / km
CO2-Emissionen aus der Treibstoff- und/oder der Strombereitstellung
** 925 kg (850 kg leer)
** Leergewicht:
Inkludiert laut DIN 70200 bzw.
EG 92/21: Einen zu 90% gefüllten Tank, 68 kg für den Fahrer und 7 kg Gepäck (und es ist physikalisch streng genommen eigentlich die
"Leermasse").
A
Energieeffizienz-Kategorie
wassergekühlter Vierzylinder-Benzinmotor, 16 Ventile, 2 obenliegende Nockenwellen, Multipoint-Einspritzung
Sondermodellserie Piz Sulai®
www.vonrotz.ch/suzuki-piz-sulai/
ATTRAKTIVES PIZ SULAI® PAKET:
Vier Aluminium-Winterräder mit Premium-Markenreifen,
sportliches Designpaket, Einstiegsleisten,
Lenkradapplikationen, Schlüsselanhänger und eine praktische Kofferraummatte — alles im exklusiven PIZ SULAI® Look.
Limitierte Sonderserie, nur solange Vorrat.
Individuell Konfiguriert:
Comfort Plus
Dual Color
Seitenleisten
20.960,24 EUR
ohne Winterset Alu-Reifen und Felgen
ohne Chromleiste
ohne 5 Jahre Garantie
also etwa
23.000 EUR 2023 / März
Ohne Händler-Rabatt
I will be using this camera in week 325 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240
Not many if any places to see a pair of SD35's running now days in the US, here GLC 383 and 384 work the interchange with the Ann Arbor RR at Osmer siding just north of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Nice compact packages these SD35's seen from above, if only EMD had cataloged an SD30, that would have been a pretty swell looking unit - August 23, 2024.
The Foxtrot fighter is a modified GARC viper. She's equipped with 2 short-range ballistic guns and 4 low-frequency phase cannons for shield dampening. Though she's low on firepower, she makes up for it with sheer speed. All this coupled with the ability to compact into a small cargo bay makes her a bounty hunter's best friend.
This has got to be my absolute favorite out of all the fighters I have built for the 14x14x6 starfighter challenge because it's just so fun to convert, and it's pretty dang swooshable too.
A V-22 Osprey unfolds it's rotors as the crew preps the aircraft for departure from the California International Air Show.
Instructions for my custom models for the Death Star Escape & Compactor are now ready. You can buy downloads on my website
If there’s one company in Australia with heaps of dino compactors, that company will be Suez, or SITA as I wish they were still known. Maybe in the past the company had more dino work on a national scale, but the high majority is now subject to their Sydney operations, with most of their bulk bin trucks indeed dino roll-offs. I’m sure the company has a good couple hundred open top containers, compactor containers and integrated units in Sydney, a lot of which appear to be young or freshened up. However, a few years ago I came across one of their older pieces of equipment outside their Wetherill Park transfer station, just sitting on the road unattended while its transporter was somewhere else. I love seeing a compactor just sitting on the road out from a dock, especially at night in the Sydney CBD haha It’s not often you would find a compactor of this capacity being used for garbage, so I think it’s safe to say this is a dry waste container or more likely one for paper and cardboard. You can tell this one is an oldie, with very faded paint and signage, plenty of scratches and a decent amount of rust. You can see the front of the container has been punched inwards... a result of the many times this steel box has been pushed into its resting position by the bail hook and frame. I reckon the “No Parking Day Or Night” signs should feature an additional “Offending Vehicles Will Be Towed” - not hard to do with the truck!