2022-10-18
And this is how you get your money’s worth out of a mower blade. Unfortunately, I do not claim ownership. Left is new, right has some miles on it.
2022-10-18
And this is how you get your money’s worth out of a mower blade. Unfortunately, I do not claim ownership. Left is new, right has some miles on it.
2022-06-13
Well you get this: … a monitor stand attached to a pipe stand via C clamps.
2018-12-04
So anyone that has had boards manufactured by Elecrow (https://www.elecrow.com/) knows what that picture means – the stuff is in the mail. For those that do not partake in hobbies that involve custom fabrication by Chinese firms, every time Elecrow completes an order, they email you a picture of it before sending it out. I am exited. This is the first four layer board I have done and this is the first time I have Read more…
2018-08-25
Note: This post a bit of a mess because I kept screwing up and being wrong. I am going to leave it this way because I don’t want to have yet another ‘highlight reel’ of an Internet presence. Learning is a messy endeavor, especially when you’re not some brillient mind that “just gets it”. The impetus behind the last revision of the board was current. Specifically current handling. More specifically issues with current handling. Even Read more…
2017-05-06
Finally real progress is being made. The I2C communication stuff is working on both chips. I’m taking the register-based approach and have tested the implementation of all of the basic registers. Did a bit of stress testing on the communications stuff – weird input, input overflowing buffer sizes, collisions, and etc. and everything seems to be working fairly well in a sense that there’s no corruption, the failures are predictable and graceful, all data gets Read more…
2017-01-19
So after …mumble.. years my Craftsman DMM died. It was very sad, but the meter did outlasted the brand so that’s gotta be worth something. To replace it I bought the Amprobe AM-510. Very nice meter. Allowed me to finish the current loop simulator and verified that the digital milliamp readout on my power supply is more or less fantasy. Now to be fair, it’s a 5 A supply and the readout was off by Read more…