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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois said Thursday that starting running back Josh Ferguson will miss the Illini's game Saturday at No. 22 Iowa because of a shoulder injury.

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Laying out one PCB, sending it out to a fab, stuffing it with components, and having the whole thing actually work when you’re done is a solved problem. Doing the same thing and having it plug in to another PCB… well, that’s a bit harder. Forget about building a PCB and having it fit inside an enclosure the first time.

The usual solution to this problem is printing the board to be fabbed on a piece of paper, take some calipers, and measure very, very carefully. Extra points for sticking a few components you’re worried about to the paper before lining the mechanical prototype up to the existing board. [N8VI] over at the i3 Detroit hackerspace had a better idea – print the whole thing out on a 3D printer.

[N8VI] is working on a software defined radio cape for a BeagleBone. He was a bit concerned about a few caps getting in the way of a board stack. This was tested by printing out a bit of plastic in the shape of the new board, adding header spacers and parts that might be troublesome.

While the idea is great, there’s not much in the way of a software solution or a toolchain to make plastic copies of completed boards. We know rendering 3D objects from KiCAD is rather easy, but there aren’t many tools available for those of us who are still stuck with Eagle. If you know of a way to print populated boards, drop a note in the comments.

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By now, you've already heard all about Cardale Jones and how he's exceeded every expectation for a third-string quarterback. And you've heard plenty of analysts dissect and compliment Oregon's Heisman winner, Marcus Mariota. But what about the other Ducks and Buckeyes? Who are the other players you should know in preparation for the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T? The Big Ten blog's Austin Ward outlined four other Ohio State competitors you should watch, from "The Phenom" to "The Hoarder.

For a very limited time, as in it ends tomorrow at midnight, Amazon is hosting a deal through the Amazon Appstore, giving away $100 worth of free Android apps. Fantastically, not all of the apps are a complete waste of time, as there are quite a few popular titles among the bunch which are being given away. 

For gamers, you can grab Sonic & SEGA All Star Racing, To-Fu Fury, and Carcassonne all for free. As for utility and other variously categorized apps, there are a ton. There is Instapaper, Essential Anatomy 3, KAYAK Pro, Flightradar24 Pro, Ultimate Guitar Tabs, and a ton more all for free.

Usually I don’t frequent the Amazon Appstore, but for these deals, I might just have to go in and check it out.

Grab your free apps by following the link below.

Amazon Link

Cheers David!

Amazon Giving $100 Worth of Android Apps Away, Includes Instapaper, Essential Anatomy 3, and More is a post from: Droid Life

Big Ten media days arrive in just less than two weeks, on July 28. But we can hardly wait for the event and the season to arrive, so we’ll get you ready in the coming days by identifying three pressing questions that each league squad will face at media days, along with their possible answers. Next stop: Ohio State, which will bring quarterback Braxton Miller, defensive tackle Michael Bennett and tight end Jeff Heuerman along with coach Urban Meyer to talk about the chances of breaking through for a conference crown.

It seems Motorola was not kidding when it gave a launch timeframe of “late summer” for the show-stopping Moto 360. According to PhoneArena, the company plans to coincide the smartwatch’s release with the unveiling of the Moto X+1. If history is any indication, that could place a retail date squarely in August.

Motorola reportedly plans to sell the device through Moto Maker, with the choice of either a black or steel-colored watch body, and a variety of wrist straps. The choice of bands may unfortunately be limited at launch – while colored leather and rubber wristbands will almost certainly be available, metal bands are apparently facing delays.

According to our recent Android Wear device poll, an overwhelming majority of readers favor the Moto 360 over other offerings from Samsung and LG.

Now that it may not debut for a couple of months, are you still willing to wait?

Via: PhoneArena

Moto 360 May Launch Alongside the Moto X+1, Use Moto Maker for Customization is a post from: Droid Life

If you are looking for one of the quickest ways to listen to your favorite artists, Google has you covered. A simple Google Search for the artist name will bring up not only information, images, and news for that artist, but there will also be a list of apps on your device capable of playing that artist immediately. Tap your favorite music  service, and bam, you are taken to the artist page or list of results within the app to get you listening away.

As you can see from my screenshots, apps like YouTube and Google Music were both listed, but other services like iHeartRadio, Spotify, and Rdio should also be supported.

Give it a try, if you are in the US. 

Via:  @Google

Tip: Do a Google Search for Artists, Tap Quick Links to Apps to Listen to Them is a post from: Droid Life

Ever feel overwhelmed by the day’s endless flood of news? A number of services attempt to rank and aggregate the news by importance, but Yahoo thinks it can do them one better. Yahoo News Digest, previously exclusive to iOS, is launching today on Google Play for Android devices.

The app separates news by four locales: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, or International. It has a built-in article browser, but is really designed to operate unobtrusively in the background. Every morning at 8 a.m. and evening at 6 p.m., it’ll deliver a summary of the top news, replete with “atoms” – related articles, maps, Wikipedia entries, etc. – that are intended to help you digest the news. 

Perhaps the biggest differentiator between Yahoo News Digest and similar apps is its user interface, which is clean, functional, and a pleasure to navigate. It isn’t Holo, but spiffy animation, parallax scrolling, and Gaussian blur are used to great effect. Performance is good, too, and the app even comes with a homescreen widget that keeps track of the stories you’ve read. Neat!

Yahoo News Digest is available for download from the Google Play Store starting today.

Play Link

Via: Yahoo

News Aggregation App Yahoo News Digest Launches for Android is a post from: Droid Life

I attended the second game last night in the Diamond Club Section at Great American Ball Park, the first time I’ve ever sat there. Those are the seats right behind home plate. My sense is they are almost entirely for corporate sponsors or VIPs. Maybe a handful of seats are available for purchase for individual games. Here’s a description of my experience:

You enter the Diamond Club area from the underground parking lot, level P2. After navigating four check-points, you enter a large, well decorated room, called the Diamond Club Lounge, set with tables for eating. The bar is at the far end, away from the entrance, on the right, just past one of the carving stations (roast pork with “comeback sauce”). At the far back of the room, away from the parking garage, is the entrance to the ballpark.

It turns out that this initial room, which is quite big itself, is less than half the total space of the Diamond Club Lounge. Past the bar, around the corner to the right, is another large area of tables and televisions.

Before last night, I had a general sense that food lurked behind the Diamond Club, but I was totally stunned at how first-class and enormous the underground Lounge area was. It appeared to easily seat a couple hundred people, with dozens of flat screens available to watch the game and the radio broadcast on throughout. An extremely efficient wait-staff service tended to every need.

A sprawling buffet (50 feet?) stretches along the entire length of one side of the room. It’s available before and for the first hour of the game. It’s comprised of extremely high quality food, not normal buffet fare. It’s nothing at all like ballpark food. It’s really the opposite of ballpark food. Even more than a few healthy options.

Bob Castellini, Joe Morgan and a few others sat at the table next to me. The Reds’ owner had been in the Diamond Club section for the conclusion of the first game and arrived to dinner all bundled up. After he took off his winter clothes, he waited in the buffet line like everyone else. I resisted the temptation to interrupt his evening to thank him for his extraordinary commitment to the Reds, deciding he likely valued his privacy more than hearing a fan compliment for the thousandth time. It struck me how utterly cool it would be to eat there for free any night you wanted to because you *owned* it.

I was the guest of one of the big time corporate sponsors of the Reds through a friend who is a client. My seat was in the fourth row, five seats from dead center behind home plate. I’ve been told I was in the TV shot most of the night. I regretted not having a sign that said “Free Chapman.”

Once seated outside, you receive virtually constant wait-staff service the entire game with free (upscale) ballpark food and drinks. It’s prompt, accurate and generous. I spent most of the game loading hot chocolate to fight off the arctic weather. At any point you can go back inside and watch in the warm comfort of the big buffet room. And, I assume, in air conditioned splendor in the summer.

The Diamond Club seats provide an amazing view of the game. While my regular season tickets are excellent, sitting right behind home plate allows a real understanding of what pitches are being thrown. Mike Leake’s curve ball was great last night – in tight on the lefties and diving off the plate for righties. Being that close also makes you appreciate how impossibly difficult it is to hit a baseball and makes you wonder how anyone does it. Leake’s home run off Gerrit Cole’s 93-mph fastball was breathtaking from that proximity.

And while I didn’t partake in this particular aspect of the Diamond Club experience, there are bar drinks of various octane levels available throughout, gratis.

For your birthday sometime, I recommend you ask for a Diamond Club ticket. And then hope that you’re worthy of a $250 present.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The change in Ohio State's offensive line is impossible to ignore this spring, even in regard to the only returning starter. For one thing, he’s now lining up at left tackle, swapping sides after a breakout sophomore season on the right for one of the best offensive lines in the nation. And then there’s the haircut, as Taylor Decker trimmed off his long locks as part of a job shadow program, trying to give himself a more “professional” appearance.

Samsung first introduced its new over-sized 12.2" tablet, the Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, at CES back in January. The company announced this morning through a press email that the device goes on sale through major US retailers beginning March 9, for the price of $649.99 at 32GB. Retailers for the device include Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, Tiger Direct, PC Richard and Sons, Fry’s, and Newegg.  If you have purchased a Galaxy-branded device in the past year or so, then you will know that Samsung is quite generous with its Galaxy Perks. These deals are usually paid services that Samsung gifts to you for free for a limited period of time. For example, the Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 will come with $25 worth of Google Play credit, 1 year of Gogo Inflight WiFi (makes the purchase worth it right there), 3 months of Hulu Plus, 3 months of SiriusXM radio, 50GB of Dropbox online storage, and even more. The total gift package totals over $800. Look below for the list of Galaxy Perks coming with this device, and if you fancy purchasing a tablet with a 12.2" display, then now you know where to go on March 9.

Perks

Via: Samsung

It looks like [Dave Jones] got himself on a US government watch list. We don’t mean [Dave L. Jones], awesomesauce electronic wizard and host of eevblog, though. Some three-letter agency is just looking at someone named [David Jones]. Is this going to screw over our Aussie friend? You betcha.

[Dave] bought a few things through Element 14 that he would later pick up at their Sydney warehouse. When he got there, he discovered the parts were ‘on hold’. Out of curiosity, he asked what the holdup was and discovered his name was flagged on a US government watch list.

If you’re keeping score, this is an Australian citizen buying stuff from an Australian subsidiary of a UK company, and being told ‘no’ by the US government.

The folks behind the counter at the Element 14 warehouse were extremely helpful, clearing the hold and getting [Dave]‘s parts in just a few minutes. This has, apparently, been going on for a while; [Dave] recalled a few times when orders showed up a few days late with the Farnell/Element 14 people apologizing with the word ‘hold’ in there somewhere.

Of course this means it’s possible for someone working at the Element 14 warehouse to clear one of these US government holds, and even if they don’t the order will still go through in a day or two. Government efficiency at its best.

At the time of this writing, [David Bowie], the singer for The Monkees, the creator of Grand Theft Auto, and the British author famous for perpetual motion machines were unavailable for comment. -ed.

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