Today I discovered Low Tech Sensors and Actuators while reading Getting Started with Arduino. It’s a report about how to salvage electronics from cheap toys to make various types of systems which can interact with their environment.
In my feed today: How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code. He separates research, planning, and implementation phases, as he says: “Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way.”
I might be the first to point out: this is Waterfall! Micro-waterfall?
Here’s a fun build from element14 presents: Build Your Own USB Looper for Serial Debugging and File Transfer — Episode 702. It lets you connect two USB hosts to each other. I wanted to check out the software and schematics but I couldn’t find the files to download from anywhere…
In this video Ruckus Audio makes a BluesBreaker for his guitar.
This interview with Dan Gelbart looks interesting, but I don’t have two hours spare to watch it! You can learn more about Dan Gelbart here: The optimistic inventor: Dan Gelbart, Weizmann-identified whiz kid, recalls a storied career. His popular YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/dgelbart.
In this short video we see inside a FGE2500 gate array from Fairchild Semiconductor. It has 2,840 gates using a 1.5 micron process and was made back in the 1980s.
I love what these guys are doing with clips and such.
In this one Chase Hughes talks about this game we’re playing on Earth.
In the video we learn about Franklin’s learning principles:
And how to think like Benjamin Franklin:
The latest One ROM installment from Piers Rocks. He made his own PIO/DMA emulator and One ROM logic analyzer, as one does.