Category Archives: Hobby
Learning Electronics
About a year ago, I decided to dive back into electronics. Back when I was in college, I was originally enrolled in a degree program for Electrical Engineering. I started doing contract programming, making more money than many of my … Continue reading
It’s a Cold Cold … Solder Joint
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been leisurely debugging the puzzle box printed circuit board that I’ve designed. First I discovered that I’d used the wrong pins to communicate with the GPS chip, which required cutting a couple of … Continue reading
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Tagged Contrast Adjustment, Debugging, Electronics, Hacking, Jumpers, LCD, Puzzle Box, Soldering
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Electronics Projects and Humility
For many months now I’ve been working on a project, a reverse geo-caching puzzle box. It’s meant to be a gift for a friend’s autistic child. Rather than purchase a pre-made PCB, which would have been sensible, I decided I … Continue reading
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Tagged Arduino, Electronics, Hacking, Hobby, Kludge, Puzzle Box, reverse geocaching
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