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Nerd Famous
It's nice to see we hams, who I think suffer from a bit of an image as throwbacks in the larger maker community, get some recognition for the good stuff we've accomplished. Today on Hackaday, a nice...
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TDS1012 LED Backlight Retrofit
Back when I was working at Tektronix (wow, this summer it's been 10 years since I graduated with a AAS in EET and started at Tek), they had a one-time program where an employee could purchase a new...
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Wideband Transmission #9
Arduino in the Cloud I saw a recent post on the Make blog about the new cloud ecosystem for Arduino which has been dubbed Arduino Create. Since this will most likely be the future of Arduino, it seemed...
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Linux Mint 18 Has Arrived
Those of you who have followed my blog for a while may be aware that our household has relied upon Linux for years. Earlier on, it was Ubuntu, and then later I migrated to Linux Mint shortly after the...
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Break My New Library
I know that the updates here have been extremely sparse. For that I do apologize. Things are slowly starting to settle into a new normal around here, and I've been able to regain the ability to put...
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Market Research
It has been awfully quiet on the public front here for sure, but I have been working on quite a bit of things behind the scenes here at Etherkit Galactic HQ. It's been a challenging year since I last...
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Nice DSA815 Upgrade
I know that quite a few of you are, like me, owners of the Rigol DSA815-TG. It's been a reliable workhorse in my lab since I've acquired it, but the one thing I believe that I've wanted to most from it...
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Wideband Transmission #10
OpenTechLab If you've been reading my blog for any amount of time, you've probably observed that I'm a big fan of all things open source, especially on the hardware side of things. One area where OSHW...
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Rattling the Cup
It's not easy for me to admit that I need help, but sometimes one has to swallow his pride a bit and do that in order to move forward. Now is one of those moments for me. As I noted last year, it's...
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Arduino C++ Investigations - Introduction
As mentioned in the last Wideband Transmission, I recently viewed a presentation from CppCon 2016 which convinced me that a lot of my preconceived notions about the (lack of) suitability of C++ for use...
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