The Ware for October 2012 is shown below.
I’ll set aside the collection of stumper retro-wares from my childhood basement for a bit and give you this modern ware to ponder. This one should be guessable, especially since I left all the telltale connectors in the photo.
Sorry about the infrequent posts this past couple of months, but I’ve been spending a good chunk of my time as an intern at a local infectious disease research lab. I’ve been hacking the E. coli chromosome, swapping out genes and observing its impact on various regulatory pathways. It’s been very interesting, and has really helped calibrate my intuition on many aspects of biology that I’ve read about, but until now had not reduced to practice. I did a genomic DNA extraction protocol the other day and it was pretty magical seeing DNA precipitate out of solution into wispy white strands (the E. coli chromosome is about 5 million base pairs in size, and these huge molecules quickly glob together into strands visible with the naked eye). It’s also been fun writing simple bioinformatic analysis tools to help sort through various genetic motifs. DNA is way more structured than I had previously thought — feels almost as structured as raw binary machine code — and short snippets of DNA (a few hundred bits worth) can implement proteins with surprisingly sophisticated functions.
So many things to learn…!
Black magic design H.264 Pro Recorder?
Wow… that was quick! Direct match on the connectors.
Seeing the ADV7842, I knew it had something to do with video acquisition.
But my dear friend Google helped a lot on this one, try “video ADV7842 fujitsu USB HDMI” under Google images.
Google translate also helped :)
For their new product they coud use a Zynq solution from Xilinx to replace the FPGA+ARM parts and do H.265 encoding.
For those who might be interested, there is an interesting paper on the Zynq solution in the Electronic Specifier of this month:
http://europe.nxtbook.com/nxteu/electronicspecifier/design_201211/index.php#/76
Very likely. Telltale signs that it does have something to do with video are the 3+1 BNC connectors (YPbPr + SDI, I think), audio jacks, the 19-pin HDMI connector and the 74.25 and 27 MHz oscillators.
Just pulling this out of thin air, but some sort of logic analyzer? Or possibly some sort of capture device intended for security cameras?
I think it’s a USB oscilloscope – 3x BNCs on the front as inputs, one on the back for an external trigger; analogue front end, an ARM and an FPGA; USB and serial on the back.
Looks awfully close to one of these: http://www.hantek.com/english/produce_list.asp?unid=153
I just can’t work out what the large connectors at the bottom right are – banana plugs? A quick Google doesn’t show up anything with connectors like that.
The’re 1/4″ TRS plugs. Whatever the device is, it’s almost positively an AV device of some sort.
I think it is an motherboard from some old ancient computer
Dear Bunny,
long time not heard! But I understand hacking genomics can be more interesting that posting on a blog!
Can you do something about these spams, there are many wordpress plugins for that!
Regards
Glad to hear your comments on DNA. Do you believe Intelligent Design theorists may have a case? Have you read Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell? Highly recommend it. Peering into Biology from the computer world is indeed eye opening, dare I say life changing.
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