playing with bits

I have always had my eye out for surplus electronics and one of the best finds I have ever had was this: A local business was throwing away ...

A nice feature of the Tektronix TDS series of digital storage oscilloscopes is their external video display capability. Most (if not all) Te...

So I have been frustrated lately. While working on a project... I will need to look up a datasheet for component n. I commonly turn to googl...

For the past few years I have been growing various cayenne and habanero peppers in planters off of my condos balcony. The only issue with th...

I needed a very small, lightweight passive GPS antenna for an ET-301 USGlobalSat GPS module, but didn't have anything to use on-hand. I ...

Sitting down this past weekend for a large amount of time to begin a new project (details will be provided in the next post)... I discovered...

There hasn't been an update for awhile, but I have some projects in the works. This weekend I finally had time to clean my bench so ther...

I recently came across a really cool piece of gear... a rack mounted SNMP network interface unit. This device is essentially a interface tha...