Category Archives: electronics

Nearest emergency room

So you’re a dev, and you just googled.  “where is my nearest emergency room”  and guess what, there is no easy answer.  What if there was a real emergency?  How would you get to the emergency room?  Let’s pretend that … Continue reading

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Arduino simple serial echo

Part of my process of going from a large and complicated A, to a large and complicated B is to do small things along the way that gradually inch me closer to what I want to do. What I really … Continue reading

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What it means to troubleshoot

I went to a tech meetup and someone stood up and said, “does anyone want a project?”.  I have a habit of saying yes too often so naturally I said yes. I would try it.  He gave me an email … Continue reading

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Hacking with a NodeMCU

Today I am hacking on a node MCU. They look something like this: I am trying to program them with the Arduino IDE because arduino is stupid easy to use.  Interestingly to bootstrap the NodeMCU to the arduino environment, instead of … Continue reading

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list of apps that are useful to me

I have noticed I often wish “Damn I wish someone had made an app for that” and when I search for it I can’t find it.  Then I outsource the search to facebook or other people; and they can usually … Continue reading

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