Tales From The Cube: Tell Us Your Tale Contest Finalists

EDN Staff -- EDN, November 11, 2011

Congratulations to Samuel Kerem, winner of EDN’s Tales From The Cube: Tell Us Your Tale contest, sponsored by Tektronix. Kerem will receive a Tektronix scope valued at approximately $5000. Read all the finalists’ entries below.

Over the eight week entry period, more than 100 Tales columns were collected. It was a difficult choice but we’ve selected six finalists. We now leave it to you, our audience, to vote for a winner who will receive a Tektronix scope valued at approximately $5,000.

The six finalists are:

The silence of the circuit
A challenging VCR-to-TV connection is nothing compared to winning this engineer’s small-town mother and neighbors over after inadvertently playing “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Submitted by Harry Maddox

Cow tipping
Open-range cattle have one engineer scratching his head when it comes to boresight measurements.
Submitted by Arnold N Simonsen

The $1 million recall
An engineer’s reputation almost goes up in smoke after a power module comes back from the field heavily burned.
Submitted by Samuel Kerem

Copy that
A copy machine causes trouble for two engineers chasing phantom oscillations.
Submitted by John E Rogers

Printer parking break
A so-called feature nearly foils plans to speed up wide-format inkjet printers.
Submitted by Dan Dull

Murphy’s Law applies even under water
While working on a hydroelectric feed tunnel through the Andes in Peru, one engineer learns that Murphy’s Law is relevant when it comes to a manipulator and a mountain.
Submitted by David Jeffrey

Vote for your favorite here by December 2, 2011, and be sure to tune into EDN’s Fun Friday newsletter and print magazine in January 2012 to see the winner. For more EDN Tales From The Cube columns, visit this page.