On my list of things to learn more about:
Category Archives: Electronics
Tech Explorations and Udemy
I’ve purchased a bunch of Udemy courses run by Dr. Peter Dalmaris of Tech Explorations. I’m a happy customer! Though I do wish I had more time to focus on the material.
Panel Mount Assembly
From here, how to mount a switch in a case:

Living the life
ATtiny85
Found some good info concerning the ATtiny85. The ATtiny85 is an 8-bit RISC based microcontroller I’m interested in.
The smallest and worst HDMI display ever
This is great: The smallest and worst HDMI display ever. There’s a write up over here. This guy has plugged an OLED device directly into the HDMI port on his laptop. On a related note, I thought Craig would appreciate this one: Building a tiny steampunk “HDMI” display from the same author (recommend watching at 2x speed).
Home Electronics Lab
I enjoyed watching this guy demo his electronics lab: Home Electronics Lab. But mine is better! :)
MagPi
I discovered the MagPi magazine. A Raspberry Pi magazine free in PDF format.
BEAM Robotics
See The BEAM Reference Library for an interesting take on robotics.
Dead caps
Over on the Nichicon Wikipedia article they say: “From 2001 to 2004, Nichicon produced defective capacitors (“HM” and “HN” series) that were used by major computer manufacturers”.
This is what those HM series caps looked like in an Xbox I opened yesterday: