Today I discovered Newton’s own annotated copy of his Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica.
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Altronics catalog
Today my free copy of the Altronics catalog arrived. This is low-tech, but still the best way to keep up to date with the state of the art: just read the catalog from cover to cover!
Learning Clojure
I thought I might start with some of Paul Graham’s famous papers which aren’t about Clojure per se, but are about Lisp:
- Revenge of the Nerds
- The Roots of Lisp
- What Made Lisp Different
- Fortran
- Carl de Marcken: Inside Orbitz
Also his book On Lisp is of interest and is available free online these days.
And then the Arc language tutorial, which is also not Clojure, but looks like an interesting Lisp.
Then I will read the following books, in this order:
- Programming Clojure
- Getting Clojure: Build Your Functional Skills One Idea at a Time
- Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure: Write Lean Programs for the JVM
- Clojure for the Brave and True: Learn the Ultimate Language and Become a Better Programmer
This is, of course, a silly amount of reading. Let’s see how I go.
Old Book Teardown #7: Engineering Electronics with Industrial Applications and Control (1957)
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Silly Job Title: Electron Enchanter
This video is part of the Old Book Teardown feature of my video blog.
In this video I tear down Engineering Electronics with Industrial Applications and Control by John D. Ryder. This book was published in the USA in 1957. The book comprises 666 pages and is chock full of schematics with old vacuum tubes and photos from old Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes (CROs).
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Embedded Systems with ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers in Assembly Language and C
Today I learned about Embedded Systems with ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers in Assembly Language and C (Fourth Edition) by Yifeng Zhu while watching Lecture 9: Interrupts on YouTube. The full list of associated lectures are here: Short Lectures.
Claudius Ptolemaeus, Almagestum, 1515
Wow. On Wikipedia you can download a 1515 Latin translation of the Almagest: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Almagestum, 1515.
I was able to read this file on my Debian workstation after installing the package djview4.
Extra Content #7: The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming
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In this video I pull the floppy disk out of the cover of my copy of The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition).
I have this wonderful old book The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition). It was published in 1997 but is still available for purchase through Amazon.
The book comes with a floppy disk (that’s right: a floppy disk!). I had to buy a USB floppy disk drive to read it. I have made the content from the disk available in a tarball, here: scsi.tgz.
If you just want to read the files, those are here:
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New Book Teardown #3: Learning The Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course (2016) | In The Lab
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Silly Job Title: Master Planner
This video is part of the New Book Teardown feature of my video blog.
In this video I take a look at Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz published in 2016. The book has 1,140 pages and is a companion to The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition.
Some notes about things of interest we noticed in the book:
- Xilinx was an American technology and semiconductor company, now owned by AMD
- the Ebers–Moll model is useful for modelling Bipolar junction transistors
- Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history
- Wien’s bridge is used for precision measurement of capacitance in terms of resistance and frequency
- Wilson current mirror is a three-terminal circuit that accepts an input current at the input terminal and provides a “mirrored” current source or sink output at the output terminal
- a Bessel filter is a type of analog linear filter named in reference to Friedrich Bessel who developed the mathematical theory
- the video about the 6502 I watched recently is: The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation!
- the Cypress PSoC is a family of microcontroller integrated circuits by Cypress Semiconductor
- octopart.com
- learningtheartofelectronics.com
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Update Jan 2025: Hi there. You might be interested to know that the second edition of this book is due to ship in March 2025! Can’t wait! https://learningtheartofelectronics.com/
If you want to pre-order a new version you can do so here:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1009535188
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1009535188
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1009535188
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Make: AVR Programming
I am reading Make: AVR Programming: Learning to Write Software for Hardware and I found this excellent video: Programming AVR Microcontrollers in C – O’Reilly Webcast available from here: Beyond the Arduino: Programming AVR Microcontrollers in C.
The author’s github page is still operational: https://github.com/hexagon5un/AVR-Programming
Their website littlehacks.org is offline but still available via archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307235812/http://littlehacks.org/
Also there’s this really cool collection of projects over here: Cornell University ECE 4760 Designing with Microcontrollers Final Projects.
Old Book Teardown #6: Frequency Modulation: An Introduction To The Fundamental Principles (1958)
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Silly Job Title: Master Planner
This video is part of the Old Book Teardown feature of my video blog.
In this video I tear down Frequency Modulation: An Introduction To The Fundamental Principles by A. W. Keen, M.I.R.E., A.M.I.E.E. This book was published in London in 1958. The book comprises 274 pages and is chock full of schematics with old vacuum tubes.
Some items of note from the book:
- Armstrong phase modulator by Edwin Howard Armstrong
- Louis Alan Hazeltine was associated with the FreModyne
- A Klystron is a particular type of vacuum tube
- A Phasitron is a type of Beam deflection tube
- RCA is the Radio Corporation of America
- You can read about superregeneration on the Regenerative circuit page
- A superhet is a type of radio receiver
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ENGINEER PA-21 Crimping Tool notes |
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