April 1st, 2023 @ Microwaves & RF

March 31, 2023

Check out some amusing and impossible ideas in this year's April 1st issue.

April 1st @ Microwaves & RF

Welcome to our annual April 1st issues, where we try to bring some amusement and humor to an otherwise turbulent and wacky world. You can read and download all the stories in ...

Welcome to our annual April 1st issue, where we try to bring some amusement and humor to an otherwise turbulent and wacky world.

Traditionally, April 1st has been a time to celebrate with jokes, spoofs, and other tricks. Taking time to laugh can be difficult with all the other problems both personal and global, but hopefully it makes dealing with these a little easier or at least improves your outlook on life.

This year we collected a number of new stories from editors and readers. They touch on familiar topics like quantum computing and IoT along with analog and power topics in a twisted fashion. We hope they will not confuse new readers too much, as our regular fare is designed to inform and educate readers about real technology rather than our whimsical machinations.

You can check out our April 1st offerings in a couple of ways. The slideshow (above) provides a quick overview of each article listed below. We also have an eBook you can download that let's you keep a copy for posterity. We hope you have fun with these and share them with your friends.

Technology Advancements

April 1st, 2023 @ Microwaves & RF

Check out some amusing and impossible ideas in this year's April 1st issue.

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Technology Advancements

Which April 1st, 2023 Story Did You Like Best?

Did you enjoy any of our April 1st stories? We would like to know.

Systems

Smartphone App Discourages “Grim Reaper” and Chatty Co-workers

A smartphone app hopes to delay the Grim Reaper’s “success” via repeated, non-stop text-message interruptions.

Test & Measurement

Answering the Question: Does a Refrigerator Light Go Out When Door Closes?

A student project uses basic sensors and a microcontroller to verify if the light really goes out when the door closes.

Industry Insights

Pioneering Organic Welding Certificate Program Debuts at Oregon College

Welding Department Chair Alaska Scot discusses the evolution and details around the novel organic welding program.

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Systems

Virtual Circuits Beat Out Quantum Computer

We asked our AI chatbot to design something faster than quantum computing and this is what it came up with.

Test & Measurement

Measuring with Humor

What’s the state of the state for today’s calibration engineers? The cartoon series courtesy of Fluke Calibration takes a satirical snapshot of the current climate.

Test & Measurement

You Can Now Code by Jamming Out on Guitar, Thanks to ChatGPT

ChatGPT allows you to write computer programs in the coolest way possible, by rocking out on guitar.

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Components

Man Indicted for Selling “Ground” to Naïve EE Students

A scammer has been indicted for selling meaningless physical land to neophyte electronics students.

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Systems

Amizoney Will Use Chatbot-Based "Synthetic Consumers" to Bolster Sales

With AI and Chatbot technologies replacing human employees at an alarming rate, who's going to keep the consumer economy alive? Amizoney thinks it has the answer.

About the Author

William G. Wong | Senior Content Director

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.>

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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.