Electronics
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October 6, 2012
I’m running my ham radio that uses the computer to do a lot of the work.
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August 6, 2012
Curiosity, the biggest, heaviest and most complex rover, landed successfully on Mars this evening.
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July 25, 2012
The 12V light bulbs on the underside of our kitchen cabinets drop (go dark) like a nest of wasps hit with Raid Wasp and Hornet spray – bunches of them drop all at once.
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July 21, 2012
While there are several ASCII to Morse code translators out there, I haven’t seen the encoding used herein. It is slightly denser than most and should work nicely in machines with a tight memory constraint.
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June 24, 2012
My Raspberry Pi should arrive tomorrow. It is a credit card-size computer running Linux.
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February 15, 2012
Spend $2 bills and, when someone comments on it, say “It’s symbolic of my support for the Second Amendment.”
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February 10, 2012
For the geeky types out there, are you watching Raspberry Pi?
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November 26, 2011
Curiosity is on it’s way this morning to Mars for the next eight months. Launched this morning atop an Atlas V vehicle, Curiosity is the size of a small car, several times the weight, and carries many times the scientific instruments of its predecessor rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.