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She pressed the switch.

Ed Boyden A light switch for neurons

Where is the light switch?

Well, Thomas Edison invented the circuit breaker in 1879.

And when you turn the switch on, the light goes on.

And when you turn the switch off, the light goes off.

That's a Siemens S7 400 PLC, programmable logic controller .

Basically, what they're doing is looking at biology as a programmable system.

And the first story is called The Faulty Switch.

He s just saying that he doesn t like to have to be the one to push the button for the execution, and that it s painful to have the responsibility put on one person.

I can't turn it on, because the switch is broken.

Tom flipped the switch and the lights came on.

Why have we settled so quickly for the sound of its switch?

A transistor is nothing more than a wall switch.

Other developments In the 1980s, programmable logic devices were developed.

And so there is this other unique material trait that these materials have, that they're programmably degradable.

We call this technology EFCI, Electrical Fault Circuit Interrupter.

Here's the section on the all important emergency stop switch.

Another beautifully designed new building ruined by the sound of a common wall light switch.

This light switch that reads, on the one hand, flashfloods, and on the other hand, off.

A switch that is operated by another electrical circuit is called a relay.

The next one questions that and looks at passive nature, or passively trying to have reconfiguration programmability.

In 1941 Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first fully functional and programmable computer using electromechanical parts.

Nvidia was first to produce a chip capable of programmable shading, the GeForce 3 (code named NV20).

So, you can put circuit components on the staples, like a light bulb and a light switch.

The sound made flicking a wall switch off is of a completely different nature.

2000 to 2006 With the advent of the OpenGL API and similar functionality in DirectX, GPUs added shading to their capabilities.

And think of things in your life that are binary, one of them is light switches.

And you can see there's a 1 and 3, really small on the lever switch there.

And you can buy micro lever switches like this from Radioshack or a variety of places online.

When the case is opened, the switch position changes and the system records this change.

In an EEPROM that is frequently reprogrammed while the computer is in use, the life of the EEPROM can be an important design consideration.

His mechanism had a programmable drum machine with pegs (cams) that bump into little levers that operate the percussion.

But wouldn't it be an easy matter to wire a wall switch so that it triggers the muted horn of a steam ship?

Intrusion detection Some computer cases include a biased switch (push button) which connects to the motherboard.

In the 9th century, the Banū Mūsā brothers invented a programmable automatic flute player and which they described in their Book of Ingenious Devices .

I have been able, through careful invention, to transmit, with the mere flick of a switch, electricity across the ether.

What the squid has developed is a shutter that can open and close over this specialized light organ housing the bacteria.

It was capable of iteration, conditional branching and parallel processing, and it was programmable using punched cards, an idea Babbage took from Jacquard's loom.

The microprocessor is a multipurpose, programmable device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and provides results as output.

And we can turn its heartbeat on and off by going in and out of suspended animation like you would a light switch.

Mountains and oceans are hard to move, but portions of cyberspace can be turned on and off by throwing a switch.

In your house, wires run in the wall, from the light switch to a junction box in the ceiling and from the junction box to the light bulb.