It’s not fancy or extensive, but it is *done*. It took nearly 2 hours after work to get this all put together, but here’s the flasher that I built a few weeks ago incorporated into a lego component. It’s a quarter shell which provides flexibility since everything is mounted to a single piece, and room [...]
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Over the past few weeks I’ve acquired some new, although not necessarily top-end, equipment for electronics work. I didn’t even realize what a function generator was until I came across it while studying and I thought I could get by with building my own power supply from an old PC power supply but reading several [...]
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This robot is just plain cool. That’s the kind of stuff I’d like to be able to build. I didn’t get much (any?) study done this morning but this evening Alex was playing with a friend so I worked through 2 chapters in an electronics theory book. Very good, solid, deep material and the right [...]
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Alex had a friend staying over Friday and Saturday night, taking him home Sunday afternoon so they played, played, played. They also had one of Alex’s neighborhood friends over and it’s difficult to describe the degree of play – constant, never ending, never resting play. It was great to see. The house is a disaster [...]
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As I continue to move forward in my electronics study I keep bumping into articles and tutorials where I’ll need an oscilloscope. These can cost tens of thousands of dollars and I have an aversion to that. So I’ve been looking and reading and trying to evaluate these without any local shops to work with [...]
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