Posted by Chris Gammell on January 24, 2011 in
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Shoutouts Thanks to Mitch (@mitpatterson) for linking to us from his site! Alexander linked here too and asked about what to do when family and friends might not be interested in hearing about your latest project. Octopart now indexes Digikey as well! Electronics porn! Hi res photos of an old Microchip part. Light can [...]
Tags: 555 Contest, 555 Timer, Computer Museum, Green Pen, Microchip, Octopart, Popular Electronics
Posted by Chris Gammell on January 17, 2011 in
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WOTW None! C’mon people! But we did hear that some people have been building benches, such as John S. Can’t wait to see them! Chris is planning a new bench as well! And has been doodling in Google Sketchup to get an idea of what he wants: View from the front From afar with [...]
Tags: ADI, Analogue Dialogue, arduino, Ben Heck, Element-14, Jeri Ellsworth, Obama, TI
Posted by Chris Gammell on January 10, 2011 in
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. WotW JP Wack from Santiago, Chile Bench with awesome labels! Other work Troy Rank from Rochester, NY Bench page Stynus from Belgium Project page (tons’o’projects!) Workbenches And workbenches with Stynus in the picture Followup The 6502 was laid out by hand by one person! A new study out found that ASUS was the [...]
Tags: 6502, ASUS, CES, eWaste, Helium Balloon, modular, NASA, watch, watchmaker
Posted by Chris Gammell on January 5, 2011 in
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. Shoutouts Sparkfun has a new “grab bag” program for all their pick and place cast off parts. Could be some good pickins! Rants Why does the IEEE still charge membership fees to unemployed engineers? And why does the cutoff for waiving the fee occur at 13k(and below)? Is that a realistic point at [...]
Tags: CFL, Detroit, IEEE, Incandescent, Solar Cells, SparkFun, TSMC