Microchip AN1375: "See what you can do with the CTMU"

[Describes applications for the Charge Time Measurement Unit on PIC microcontrollers.]

[Applications 1 to 46, and then:]

Really Complex Applications

47. Solving World Hunger

By mass deploying inexpensive temperature (# 28) and humidity sensors (# 10), it becomes possible to make continuous, fine resolution measurements of climatic variation over large agricultural areas. This makes it possible, at least in theory, to create a closed-loop system of more precise water and nutrient delivery. This, in turn, can push crop yields to their maximum. Do this in enough places, and there will be enough food to feed everyone, everywhere. (Note that it was never said that this would be easy.)

48. Bring About World Peace

Admittedly, World Peace is still being worked on. It’s possible that it is beyond the scope of the CTMU, or it could be that it hasn’t been given enough time. Perhaps this issue is one that can be left to the readers.

https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/PIC32/CTMU/AN1375.pdf

Liked it!!

What is this? The internet age is the age of information.  No time in recorded history has ever allowed such an ease of finding information, decoding it, and applying.

Academia is easily accessible via google, even if all you can read is the abstract it gives a pretty good direction in which to proceed.

Companies like Tesla are open sourcing their patents.

Hackaday.io, Instructables.com and YouTube are exploding as the maker/hacker movement seeks to solve every little problem with everything.

September 1987 was 28 years ago, I really don't see how it applies to today, other than this project seeks to do what the description rails against. 

Maybe I am just to daft to get it, please explain.

Did you use the "ease of finding information" of this era to find/read that Application Note? Highly recommended. In fact, I might just read it again, thanks :)

Has anyone noticed how much the graphic for this site resembles the MOLOCH! scene from the movie metropolis???

elitist clubs belong in one of these:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85027770/25120SpecTwoSides%20NC.pdf

First rule of alt.hackaday.io is you do not talk about alt.hackaday.io.

Yes!

This is the most kick-ass-est Application Note I have ever read. I wonder if we should have a series on digging up and serving App Note and Data Sheet gems to our readers.

Would be a great series