Today I read about Alessandro Volta who is the person the “volt” was named after. Volta achieved a number of things but the most famous of them is the Voltaic pile, the first battery.
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Arduino Project Hub
Today I discovered Arduino Project Hub. There are over six thousand projects there!
Low Tech Sensors and Actuators
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.
How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code (hint: it’s Waterfall!)
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?
USB Looper for Serial Debugging and File Transfer
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…
DIY BluesBreaker
In this video Ruckus Audio makes a BluesBreaker for his guitar.
Solving Impossible Problems with Dan Gelbart
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.
A look inside the FGE2500 ECL Gate Array from Fairchild Semiconductor
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.
Undeformable pen clip
I love what these guys are doing with clips and such.
How to WIN the Game of Earth
In this one Chase Hughes talks about this game we’re playing on Earth.