Not for the Maker Faire. I dropped out of San Mateo’s faire this month, stayed in for October in Austin. It’s next week anyway, not two weeks.
No, two weeks more before the end of finals, after which I can safely and responsibly be obsessive about hobbying.
I haven’t done a lick of work, since I had [...]
A day later I learn from a page on the Seattle Robotics Society’s web newsletter, Encoder, that I can in fact solder those tiny bug sized IC’s that left me itchy yesterday. In fact I can do it using a toaster oven and a special ordered compound! It looks like a fun experiment, but unfortunately at this point [...]
I have the cycles of the washing machine measured at last. I am ready to build a circuit.
I thought I would start with the easiest one first. All it does is light an LED when a load of almost any kind comes through the wire. The voltage just has to make it through resistor R5 [...]