Since nearly all the content I’ve produced for the last decade has appeared solely on the Web, it was a big thrill to discover that a story I’d written about rare earth-free motor technologies for EVs was selected to be the cover story for a recent print edition of Electronic Design. See “New Motor Designs…

By Technician X Although the late astrogeologist Eugene Shoemaker is supposed to be the first Earthling to have their ashes flown to another planet, his 1999 flight to the moon aboard the Lunar Prospector probe came too late to enjoy that distinction. Certainly Dr. Shoemaker, whose pioneering work that made the Apollo Lunar geo-science program…

Thanks for dropping by my blog page, it’s currently a work in progress that I hope will serve as a place to share my thoughts on some of the things that don’t fit neatly into the regular topics I write about, or the markets I serve. Given my regular workload, and the volunteer activities I’m…