And All the Hills are Rainbows
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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Electronics Schwag (The Specifics)
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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Not bad, as Castles go
Myself and Favourite Lady took the weekend off to head to Dromoland
(warning: terrible website will make all your orifices bleed rage). It
was nice to get out to that part of the country again. Roomservice
breakfast while reading the sunday papers is one of the best things
ever.
We …
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Legbone connected to my Wristwatch
I've been fiddling about with small electronics recently, specifically
the Arduino, which is a microcontroller/prototyping board. The
boards have gotten way cheap (standard ones are around 20-30 quid, less
if you want fewer I/O ports or a specialised board layout you need to
solder bits onto.
The hard …
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Hibernating
'Tis the season, apparently.
One more stint of travel before the long and well-anticipated 2 weeks
off work for xmas. I've only had one unbroken year in the streak of
taking these 2 weeks off before in my entire working life -- I get very
grumpy if it doesn't work out …
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