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Symbiote grows its production facility

ZEELAND, MI – Symbiote, a furniture manufacturer, has expanded its operations in Zeeland in a move that officials says will create seven new jobs. Symbiote, which makes furniture such as work tables and storage for the biotechnology, education, healthcare and security industries, invested $626,000 to expand its operations, according to Lakeshore Advantage, an economic development organization.

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Make your own DIY ribbon mic

Did you ever want to make a ribbon microphone? If so, the Frank Olson Twins website is the place to go. This site is a place where old audio technology not only lives, but "rules." A ribbon microphone is a type of microphone that uses a thin aluminum, duraluminum, or nanofilm of electrically conductive ribbon placed between the poles of a magnet to produce a voltage by electromagnetic induction.