Most Important Skills for Electrical Engineering

Today I watched Most Important Skills for Electrical Engineering.

Stuff I need to learn includes:

He listed some important soft skills which included:

  • Critical thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Communication
  • Opportunity detection
  • Tenacity/high-pain-tolerance

Quake ported to Arduino Nano Matter and Sparkfun Thing Plus Matter Boards

Today I found Quake ported to Arduino Nano Matter and Sparkfun Thing Plus Matter Boards via this article from Hackaday: Quake In 276 KB Of RAM.

The code is on GitHub and there’s a YouTube video with a high-level explanation.

Old Book Teardown #10: Digital Systems: Hardware Organization and Design (1973) | In The Lab

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Silly Job Title: Component Wrangler

In this video I take a look at Digital Systems: Hardware Organization and Design by Fredrick J. Hill and Gerald R. Peterson published in 1973:

Here is the laundry list of links to things which came up during this video, including a few duplicates:

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Electronics Project #8: Debugging the Symbol Keyboard Mini Project JMP001 | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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Silly Job Title: Component Wrangler

In this video I add improved debouncing logic to the inaugural Silicon Chip and Jaycar Mini Project: JMP001.

Shout out and thank you to Tim Blythman for developing this project.

You can see Tim’s original code and my updates which improve the debouncing implementation.

In the video I mention that we use the pgmspace.h header from Arduino.

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Jan Axelson on USB (and Serial)

This week I discovered Jan Axelson. She’s a tech writer and her website is here: http://janaxelson.com/.

I have ordered four of her books: