This article is not about software or an electronics project. It is about a multi-year project transforming a lawn into a home and food for various species. Slugs plus a cat have played a role in this, in one way or another.
Every year, the students of HSLU and ETHZ build an electrical race car and compete in Formula Student, the world’s biggest competition for engineers. A team of students and alumni wanted to break the current acceleration record of an electrical car (1.461 seconds). They achieved an incredible acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in less than one second!
The ridge path linking the Fronalpstock and Klingenstock peak is one of the must stunning high trails in the central part of Switzerland. With views to many lakes and other peaks. With a duration of around 2 hours hiking time, and 400 meters up and down, it is a medium mountain hiking trail.
If you are in the electronics or microcontroller business: you very well know the problems with chip and silicon availability. What was supposed to last maybe for a few months starting with COVID-19 is still a problem in 2022: chips are not available or the price has skyrocket.
We at the Lucerne University are using NXP Kinetis micro controllers which seem to be affected by the silicon shortage somewhat more than any other devices? When looking that the usual sources, it was clear some are still available, but in a rather exotic WLCSP package. So the question is: can it be useful?
Continue readingA beautiful trail high above the timber line, spectacular views over the Saas Valley in Switzerland, this is the “Almageller Höhenweg”. The Saas Valley is located in the Canton Wallis in Switzerland, on the border to Italy.
Part of the hike is not for faint-hearted, but very spectacular.
Continue readingAmong the many wonderful things that nature can provide, I love to watch damselflies flying above the water. It is pretty hard to catch one of these insects, but today I was lucky to capture one of these shiny predators:
Damselflies are similar to Dragonflies, but smaller and have slimmer bodies.
Happy flying 🙂
Kleiner Fuchs (German), Small Tortoiseshell (English) or Algais Urticae is a colorful mid-size butterfly, found in most parts of Europe and across Asia. The caterpillars feed on nettles. With intensive farming and agriculture, nettles have been reduced and butterflies like this one have been impacted. With the recent trend to have more natural meadows, the population of butterflies like this one starts growing again. I hope to see more of them this year!
Happy Flying 🙂
Fantastic view to the South today on a hike around the ‘Engelstock’:
The snow covered Swiss Alps in the background with Ingenbohl-Brunnen and Lake Lucerne in the middle and Lake Lauerz on the right. If you want to see the view from the peak (Mt. Hochflue) on the right, see this post.
Happy viewing:-)
Weather in Switzerland is changing fast and frequently over this long weekend: with hours pouring rain followed by hours of beautiful sunshine.
After all the technical posts, on a different topic: Spring finally has arrived in Switzerland!
MCU on Eclipse 