lol. I purchased an autographed copy of Forrest Mims’ Maverick Scientist – Hardcover Limited Edition for my mate Dave Jones of EEVblog fame, and he was kind enough to plug me on his channel! I am a “fellow YouTuber”! :)
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In this video I go through what arrived in the mail recently.
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I was talking to my friends about Euler’s identity and I was reminded of this one: The most beautiful equation in math, explained visually [Euler’s Formula].
In that context one of my friends brought Tau Day to my attention.
This week I discovered Jan Axelson. She’s a tech writer and her website is here: http://janaxelson.com/.
I have ordered four of her books:
I mostly published this ten hour long video just to exasperate Dave Jones. ;)
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Silly Job Title: Buzz Boss.
In this video I take a good long hard look at the entirety of this book.
The book is Basic Electronics – Volumes 1 through 6 written by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger and Neville, Inc. and published in 1955.
The book is about the state of electronics at the time it was written. It was commissioned by the United States Navy, who used it to train their technicians. Later, it was released for civilian use.
In the book there is lots of material on vacuum tubes, which were state of the art at the time. The sixth volume adds material on transistors and frequency modulation, which were bleeding edge technology at the time.
I learned heaps from reading this book, particularly about the various types of vacuum tubes (also known as “valves” by the British): diode, triode, tetrode, pentode, and Klystron, among others.
Also I learned that the name “transistor” is a contraction of “transfer resistor”, I didn’t know that!
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The links to archive.org I mention in the video are these:
Also I found PDFs for Volumes 1 through 5 here:
Oh, and the link for Make: magazine is here: https://makezine.com/
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I’m reading Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things and it mentioned some equipment I’m interested in:
I’m reading Pro Git and I learned that GitHub maintains a list of .gitignore templates. Those might come in handy.
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In this video I take a look at Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School…but Probably Didn’t 3rd Edition written by Darren Ashby and published in 2011.
In the book the author mentioned that they used to write for chipcenter.com which appears to have since been taken over by EE Times. ChatGPT provided more information.
The author also mentioned Mathcad. I’m planning to check that out over here: https://www.mathcad.com/
And some terms which came up (ChatGPT explains further):
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Silly Job Title: Amp Alchemist
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In this video I teardown “Radio Engineering” (3rd edition) by Frederick Terman published 1947.
Frederick Terman was a Doctor of Science which is what the Sc.D. after his name stands for. It’s like a Ph.D. He is remembered as a father of Silicon Valley.
In the book there is much talk of diodes, but of course that is in reference to the old thermionic diodes which were vacuum tubes. These days diodes are semiconductors made from something like silicon or germanium.
The book talks a lot about power amplifier classes. Today the same classes are still used, it’s just that anything other than class AB and class D are very uncommon.
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This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.
Hey mate. Lovely to see you again, as always.
I ended up getting these cards printed at clickmedia.com.au to take with me on Wednesday to ElectroneX:
I mentioned Iain McGilchrist, he’s a psychiatrist who dabbles in philosophy. I think he has a really excellent and interesting view of things. It’s hard to summarise his position but he is very interested in the difference in perceptive capabilities of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. He has a YouTube channel over here: @DrIainMcGilchrist and if you search for him you will find many a fascinating interview.
You told me to check out Succession (TV series).
I found the Four Corners video you mentioned, over here: Self-defence or genocide? Asking Israel’s powerful voices about Gaza | Four Corners.
I mentioned Eben Moglen, who has a website over here: moglen.law.columbia.edu. I find Eben inspirational. He’s always talking in grandiose eloquence about the importance of free software, if you search for him on YouTube you are bound to find something of interest.
I mentioned Annie Jacobsen, she’s a pretty interesting cat. She has written a number of books on conspiracy-theory-like topics. I recently read her book Nuclear War: A Scenario.
I have a note here that says “positive view on nihilism” but I forget what that was about. Something I wanted to tell you, now lost to time. But searching for ‘positive view on nihilism’ turns up a bunch of interesting results! (Oh. Wait. Found it! It’s a video I wanted you to see: Optimistic Nihilism.)
Oh, another note I don’t remember: “void of ‘huh'”. I assume we were being hilarious.
There is an urban myth that the first human projectile that made it into space was a manhole cover from nuclear testing facilities for Operation Plumbbob in 1957. I dunno if it’s true, but it’s a good story!