Read a bunch of stuff about hardware debugging. Learned a thing or two, but I have much further to go!
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Books by Kevin Kelly
Here is a list of books from Kevin Kelly, the founding editor of Wired. This is just notes for Future John. I’m planning to read the first two, and maybe the last one; the others are old and hard to find in ebook or audible forms.
- Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier
- The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
- New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
- Asia Grace
- What Technology Wants
- Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
This on IRC today: The Tyranny of Structurelessness. It’s an essay about human organizations by Jo Freeman from back in the seventies.
Make: Boards Guide
Today I discovered the Make: Boards Guide. It’s great. It has a comparison feature too, so you can compare board options side-by-side.
AliExpress sale
There is a sale on at AliExpress today. I picked up the following AU$881.75 worth of stuff for AU$225.03 (inc. tax and shipping).
Network Analysers
I’ve just been checking out the state of the art with regard to network analysers: Network Analysers: 56 Products Found.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
My friend sent me a link to Postscript on the Societies of Control by Gilles Deleuze. I’m not sure if I agree. I might need to read this one again.
The most difficult math problem in this year’s HSC
The “HSC” in Australia is the “High School Certificate” which you get when you graduate high school. In order to do that you have to take the final exam, known as the “HSC exam”, or simply the “HSC”.
When I did the HSC 24 odd years ago the top level maths course (which I took) was called “4 Unit Maths”, whereas these days the top level course is now called “Maths Extension 2”. I expect the difficulty increased over the decades too.
Here’s the hardest question from this year’s Maths Extension 2 HSC paper:
There’s an article about it all in the newspaper today: ‘Not seen a question like it’: The most difficult problem in this year’s HSC.
I don’t remember enough about complex numbers, geometry, and trigonometry to answer this question, it is quite beyond me.
RAACO 137386 STEEL CABINET
Today I discovered these RAACO 137386 storage cabinets. They look pretty good. The component drawers can be partitioned with these.
Early Content #11: Demo of the ALKOY Capacitor Discharge Pen | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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In this video I demo my new ALKOY Capacitor Discharge Pen.
The bench multimeter I use in this video is my OWON XDM1041 and the bench power supply is my RIDEN RD6006.
The demo circuit used a 1KΩ 1/4W resistor, a 25V 330μF electrolytic capacitor, and an 18V supply.
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