We all have read a lot about the Air Quality Index and its effect on respiratory health in specific. Have we even wondered how much RF radiation we are exposed to and what impact it has one our cells. Those from cellular biology know that strong RF radiation ionises the contents of the cell contents.

Add to this the GHz we are subjected to due to 5G and upcoming 6G. Each country has set limitations on the RF exposure within their boundaries and every device needs to comply with EMC regulations before it can be given CE or FCC certifications. That said there is not much we can do protect ourselves, expect for one thing.

The one thing is wearables, they emit massive amount of radiations and us wearing them 24×7 exposes us to these high levels of radiations directly into our body. So my suggestion if I may is to minimise the usage of wearables for the purpose it was bought for. For e.g. there is no need to carry phone (also another Radio transmitter) and a watch together.

Happy responsible usage of RF devices in and around you and your family.

As today’s Human Machine interfaces are getting more complex and intuitive, it is super important to have a mechanism to do regression testing in an automated fashion to minimise human error and reduce fatigue.

Squish from Qt is one such tool which can do the job. It supports embedded device testing or even desktop application testing.

Squish allows:

1, Record and playback a test script

2, Write a Python script to do the automation using Squish framework

3, Uses Eclipse IDE which most software folks are familiar with.

4, It allows a development kind of interface to developing automated scripts for HMI validation

Happy squishing !

Link at https://www.qt.io/quality-assurance/squish

We all have encountered one time or the other folks going through slides one by one, reading every line and we as audience doom scrolling on our phones or nodding to show to great interest based on who is presenting.

In the very old days, there used to be projectors and slide sheets in which we used to draw using markers and project it, those were the days when there was more intellectual freedom for the presenter and also for the audience to see the human written alphabets, those days are never going to come back, unless AGI takes back to those due to some Armageddon event.

Now that power points stays here are situations NOT to use power point

1, Responses to RFQs

2, Scientific reports

3, Engineering reports

4, Under-graduate level project reports

The reason is using power points leads to:

1, Collection of bullet points which are fragment of thoughts and not complete ideas

2, The nesting of bullets makes it even more convoluted with additional meta messaging which might be missed by the audience.

3, Reading slides offline by others lead to lot of assumptions about the presenter with no chance to clarify

The only times IMHO power point can be used is for non serious communications, like town-halls, fun events, marketing events and the kind.

Happy word processing and good bye to ppts.