I enjoy astronomy. In this post I’m going to show off a cool file from the File Exchange and demonstrate MATLAB’s new-ish datetime functionality (including dateshift and duration). But… read more >>

What is a zoetrope? A zoetrope is a simple kind of animation, first popularized in the 1800s. Take twelve images of a running horse, for example. Paste them on the inside of a cylinder and spin the… read more >>

When we’re creating new pages for our community apps, our designers sometimes add some sample text as part of the review process. More often than not, this means Lorem Ipsum.
Like me,… read more >>

You’re the new kid in school. It’s lunch time.
You got a slice of pizza and a pile of tater tots from the food line, but now you face the biggest challenge yet: where to sit? You need to… read more >>

Here’s you, getting stuff done: Click… click. Click-click. Type typey type. Click.
And then: Click… click, click… and wait.

There is a moment when you’re waiting for a… read more >>

Do you have aphid problems? Aphids are perfectly nice little insects with one unfortunate habit: they have a mighty appetite for the crops we grow. But how to get rid of them? Insecticides work, but… read more >>

Our post today is from Jeff Homer of our UK office in Cambridge, England. Jeff is an Application Support Engineer with a keen interest in controls, robotics and physical modelling. He was part of a… read more >>

Earlier today I was pondering the fact that I needed some new business cards when I had a sudden brain storm. A sort of a meta-recursive brainstorm, really. I could picture the design I wanted. But… read more >>

One summer when I was in high school I spent a lot of time playing ping-pong at a summer camp. Between games, I would watch this guy named Rob play Defender on a nearby console. Rob had godlike… read more >>

Have you tried ThingSpeak yet? It’s cool, it’s free, and it talks to MATLAB. I like all three of those things. Let me show you how it works.
ThingSpeak is called an “Internet of… read more >>