Max Maxfield

3 days ago | eejournal.com | Max Maxfield

I was just thinking about the 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, writer, and photographer, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll). Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass continue to influence us today, not just as beloved children’s stories but as enduring works that challenge the boundaries of logic, language, and imagination.

1 week ago | eejournal.com | Max Maxfield

Way back in the mists of time that we used to call 2023, I wrote (well, waffled) a column about Network-on-Chip (NoC) technology (see Who Needs a Network-on-Chip (NoC)? Everyone!). Suffice it to say that this was in the days before the punctuation police forbade me from using exclamation marks in my titles (thankfully, I’m not bitter). Well, even though this was but two short years ago, all I can say is that NoC technology has progressed in leaps and bounds since then.

1 week ago | designnews.com | Max Maxfield

As we noted in Part 1 of this soon-to-be-revered mega-mini-series, several of my earlier columns are relevant to these discussions, especially the following: Ode to Bodacious Breadboards Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6 The Beginner’s Guide to Electronics: Tools—What to Buy First Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 The Beginner’s Guide to Electronics: Components—What to Buy First Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 We will refer to these article collections as...

2 weeks ago | eejournal.com | Max Maxfield

I wish you could visit me in Max’s World, where everything is bigger, brighter, and more colorful. The birds sing sweeter (and in harmony), the flowers are more fragrant, the butterflies are more brillacious—a neologism of brilliant and bodacious that I just invented—and the beer flows plentiful and cold. Most importantly, everyone is nice, kind, honorable, and trustworthy. No one would even dream of doing anything naughty.

2 weeks ago | eejournal.com | Max Maxfield

I don’t really recall when I first ran across the concept of the binary. I think I must have been around six years old. I remember getting a lined pad and pencil and starting to capture the sequence: 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000… until I’d filled the entire pad. I also remember being surprised that I hadn’t “reached the end” of the binary count sequence (it was some time before I wrapped my brain around the fact that the integers [in any base] went on forever).