Abstract: Techniques for robot-assisted deep water culture hydroponics are disclosed, including: receiving status data from multiple apparatuses associated with hydroponic cultivation, applying the status data to a machine learning model to determine one or more hydroponic cultivation parameters, and transmitting, to one or more of the apparatuses, one or more instructions to modify a hydroponic cultivation process according to the one or more hydroponic cultivation parameters.

Abstract: A completely flexible circuit is disclosed. In one embodiment, the flexible circuit includes a layer of flexible substrate having conductive material deposited on it. The flexible circuit also includes a plurality of components fixedly attached to the flexible substrate, and electrically interconnected by the conductive material. Also, the flexible circuit includes a flexible display screen attached to the at least one layer of flexible substrate and electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of components.

Abstract: A media control apparatus that is sensitive to touch along a length of an actuation sensing area. User actuation at different positions is translated into events for use by an application to access different media recording elements, based on an association between the positions and the media recording elements.

Abstract: Associating media recording elements in a sequence with positions on a linear sensor, and presenting a corresponding one of the media recording elements to the user in response to the position of the users touch. In another general aspect, a media control apparatus which includes a linear actuator and a plurality of media storage areas ordered according to a time sequence. The linear actuator includes an actuation sensing area sensitive to user actuation at one of a plurality of positions along a length of the sensing area. The apparatus can be responsive to a position signal output of the linear actuator to access one of the media recording storage areas corresponding to a user-selected position. The apparatus can also include a linear display area mounted in parallel with the linear actuator.

Abstract: In a pixel display system, a plug-to-plug compatible pixel decoder palette is provided which is responsive to a predetermined sequence of commands on an I/O data channel to switch the mode of operation of the pixel decoder palette. The pixel coder palette comprises a random access memory used as a look-up table to store colors to be displayed and the I/O channel is used to store new colors in or read colors out from the random access memory. The different modes of operation of the pixel decoder palette involve operating on intensity values represented by 6-bit bytes and 8-bit bytes and involve continuous edge graphics wherein pixels bridging boundaries between objects are displayed as mixes of the colors on each side of the boundary.