Fri 15 April 2011

I've not had a lot of time to go at electronics in the past while (mainly a combination of work things and family things kicking my ass), but I got to some of it tonight -- The clever parts of the design and build are basically done, so what's left is …

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Sun 03 April 2011

One year ago today, a very small ball of fur decided to mew outside our front door in particular. We let her in and looked after her for a bit, and eventually decided she could stay.

We're not sure exactly how old she is, we're guessing se was about 6-7 …

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Fri 25 March 2011

So, first steps. I picked up a few PIR Motion sensors. These are a specific kind, there are a few other kinds, but they should have datasheets. You might recognise the bulbous white shape of them from those motion-sensing light switches. They're about a fiver each and fun to play …

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Mon 07 March 2011

Various intricacies of how my job works these days means I work with people in a bunch of offices. They're not all in the states, but Mountain View and Irvine are two offices in California I do go to occasionally. When I was planning a trip to both late last …

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Wed 02 March 2011

A commenter asked me for more specifics on stuff to get when getting started with electronics, so since I've learned a little since then, here's my uninformed opinion.

Soldering Iron

Get a good one. I got a reasonably crap Draper one from Amazon, which was 25W. It's fine, but takes …

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