This is unreal: Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed display. I read the code and it made me feel like I don’t actually know how to program. :P
Category Archives: Electronics
dmitry.gr
Holy shit. This guy is next level. https://dmitry.gr/
More books!
Wiring tips
Check out these cool wiring tips: wiring tips. How to wire cables.
Books!
Why Are Fluke Meters So EXPENSIVE?
This was interesting: eevBLAB 91 – Why Are Fluke Meters So EXPENSIVE?
The follow up, also good: EEVblog 1447 – EXPENSIVE Fluke vs CHEAPER Brymen – Teardown.
Silicon Chip books
The good people at Silicon Chip are clearing out their old library, and I have just arranged to buy 43 of their old electronics books for $2 each. Bargain! The gory details are here.
Dumb to managed switch conversion
This is cool: Dumb to managed switch conversion. The author takes a cheap switch and upgrades it to support VLANs.
Arlec Single Outlet Safety Switch
Thanks to my mate Raz I now have an Arlec Single Outlet Safety Switch from Bunnings. It’s a 30mA residual-current device (RCD), which is a type of earth-leakage circuit breaker (ELCB).
You can see my bench UPS in the bottom right:
It’s a PowerShield Defender 1200VA.
The UPS then has the Arlec device in the back of it, which then powers the rest of my bench (behind the scissors):
You can see I still have my Xbox power cable plugged in. We’re not sure exactly what that does. In addition to an electronic fuse maybe an RCD or maybe an arc-fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) or maybe all of the above.