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Category Archives: Reading
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Lisp irony
I’m reading Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner which in its Appendix B has a description of the Scheme programming language. Rather hilariously the first line on page 394 is a sentence with unbalanced parentheses. I mean… unbalanced parentheses in the Scheme language description! :)
In The Lab With Jay Jay – December 12, 2023 – Mail Call! Plus Two Old Books And A Floppy Disk
This post is part of my video blog: In The Lab With Jay Jay.
Silly Job Title: Ohm Oracle
Old Book: Electric Circuits by J. Richard Johnson published 1984 with 888 pages.
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Today we pop open a few bags of stuff that has arrived in the mail.
I mention about the trouble I had with my Western Digital Purple drives.
I mention about my new Western Digital Black 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD WDS100T3X0E drives.
I mention about my Educational 555 PCBs which have arrived from PCBWay. The website of the designer is given as: basitelektronikprojeler.blogspot.com.
The systems of units mentioned in the old book Electric Circuits are discussed at MKS system of units and Centimetre–gram–second system of units.
The 256GB M.2 NVMe drives I got to use as my ZFS L2ARC cache are these: TOSHIBA KIOXIA 256GB BG5 NVMe SSD M.2 2280 – NEW GEN4.
The automotive fuses I got are these ones: Car Fuse Blade Fuse Kit Fuses Automatic Truck Blade The Fuse Insurance Insert Insurance of Xenon Piece Lights Auto Accessories.
The test clips I got are these ones: 10X Universal Chip clamp micro IC clamp SOP SOIC TSOP MSOP SSOP SMD IC Test Clip pin Socket Adpter Programmer for logic analyzer.
The book which arrived in the mail was The SCSI Bus and Ide Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition) by Friedhelm Schmidt published 1997 with 396 pages.
Here is a table of products I use which may appear in my video with affiliate links to vendors if you would like to buy. The link given here won’t necessarily have the best price so please do shop around to see if you can find a better deal. If you have thoughts or questions please feel free to let me know. Let’s go shopping!
Make: Guide to Boards
In The Lab With Jay Jay – November 30, 2023 – Teardown of Homemade Continuity Tester
This post is part of my video blog: In The Lab With Jay Jay.
Silly Job Title: Grounding Genius
Old Book: Industrial Electronics Reference Book by Electronics Engineers of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation published 1948 with 680 pages.
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Today we teardown a homemade continuity tester which I put together for use before I had a multimeter, so that was in the early days of my new lab, circa August 2021.
While I was preparing the links for this blog post I discovered that the plastic case I used for the continuity tester was the HB5610 Black Hand-held Electronic Enclosure from Jaycar. I purchased one of these for AU$9.95 back in August 2021, which was around the time that I made this continuity tester.
I subsequently purchased a ten pack of similar plastic cases from AliExpress for AU$64.55 (inc shipping) in March 2022. I went to find the AliExpress listing so I could link you to it, but it’s an old listing and has been taken down. I did search for an equivalent product but didn’t find what I was looking for. The dimensions are roughly 70mm x 135mm x 24mm and there is a facility for 2x AA batteries built in.
The multimeters I use/mention in this video are:
- OWON XDM1041 Bench Multimeter (notes, AU$188.51, February 2022)
- ANENG AN-999S Bench Multimeter (notes, AU$157.04, February 2022)
- DigiTech QM1323 Multimeter (notes, AU$64.95)
- DT830B Digital Multimeter (notes, 5x AU$5.45, July 2023)
The multimeter I mention I want to get is this one: EEVblog 121GW Multimeter.
What I say in the video about active vs passive piezoelectric buzzers is correct. The active buzzer will do the buzzing for you, all you need to do is supply some power. The passive buzzer will need an input signal in addition to power, so some sort of oscillator if you want to generate a tone.
I knocked up a schematic for this continuity tester, something like this:
I’m gonna try getting some PCBs made for this circuit from PCBWay, because I’m still trying to learn everything I can about that process!
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Intel Processors and Chipsets by Code Name
Today I discovered Intel Processors and Chipsets by Code Name while I was reading about Cascade Lake which was released back in 2019.
The Internet Con
Today I was referred to Cory Doctorow‘s new book: The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation. Apparently it’s basically just about the idea that web services should interoperate. I’m not going to read this one, but you might?
Linux web sites
Just some notes about web pages I was reading today.
- Linux Journal
- Linux Foundation
- Linux Foundation DokuWiki site
- Linux Standard Base (LSB)
- The Linux Kernel Archives
- LANs/ethernet-faq
- Ethernet Books by Charles Spurgeon and Joann Zimmerman
- IP Sysctl
- The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (for Hello, World Linux kernel; there’s also some good stuff on YouTube)
Moving interrupts to threads in the Linux kernel
Found an old LWN article: Moving interrupts to threads.