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Make: AVR Programming

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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.

The Brain User’s Handbook: A Neuroscience-inspired Guide to Peace of Mind

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I am reading The Brain User’s Handbook: A Neuroscience-inspired Guide to Peace of Mind which has this awesome image I want to share:


An imagined interaction between a human baby and a young LLM in training. They are sharing impressions about the endeavor of modeling the world from scratch. Image generated with DALLE-3 via ChatGPT

New website: Take Two

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Hey Craig. I’ve made some changes (hopefully improvements!) to the website:

Only the home page is working at the moment. I will get the other pages working soon, hopefully today.

Please do let me know (in no uncertain terms!) what you think of the new design. I’ve gone “mobile first”, so it should look respectable on your smart phone.

Passing myself off as respectable

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There’s been a little bit of spring cleaning around here today!

I’m trying to get my house in order so I can pass myself off as respectable when I start promoting my new show In The Lab With Jay Jay in earnest.

To that end I have reviewed the look and feel of my wiki. It no longer has that black, green, and orange monospaced font vibe going on, but now uses the relatively unoffensive default theme.

It’s not using the latest Vector theme, but rather the legacy one. This was deliberate because I have a lot of big tables in my wiki (such as on my computers and shopping pages) and the legacy theme plays nicer with those.

I’ve also been tweaking the website for my show, including an updated about page.

The blog, the wiki, and the show also now all use my new favicon which is my take on the Hacker Emblem:

John's new icon, based on the Hacker Emblem

Oh cringe

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Man. So. Today, this happened. I was watching a new video from Adrian Black and his EEVBlog multimeter failed:

It's disappointing that it's already failed

I have been saving my pennies and planning to buy an EEVBlog 121GW Multimeter because a lot of the makers around the interwebs have one as a nod to Dave Jones over on the EEVBlog, but that’s just so embarrassing that it’s failing. Of all the equipment you have you need to trust your test equipment the most and this is… well, just sad I guess.