playing with bits

For years I have used RG-58 cable for my antenna systems, it is inexpensive, easy to work with, and for short runs it works just fine. Last ...

At times I am very impatient when I am working on a project and want to assemble a working design. If the design is simple enough I will ass...

The deadline for this 555 contest came up very fast, so here I am wiring my blog post for it's entry right around 2am. Over the past fe...

I have often been curious when driving through a sharp turn how much lateral acceleration I am able to reach. Being a Car and Driver subscr...

We had an extra pumpkin and I had 20 minutes... :) Happy Halloween.

I am finally ready to perform some long-range XBee testing using the Digi XBee-Pro XSC modules. I put together a few simple Xbee repeaters u...

I have been into the electronics field since I was about 11 years old. I reached that phase of my life where I began taking everything apart...