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.

Demo #2: Resistor Box Banana Plug Modding and Demo | Learning Electronics In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I mod a pair of resistor boxes by installing banana plug terminals in place of the lug terminals they came with and then I give a quick demo of them.

In the demo we connect them in both series and parallel and then measure their resistance with my Fluke multimeter.

I mention this video from Dave Jones on the EEVblog: EEVblog #1020 – Is A $7 LCR / Component Tester Any Good? which is where I found out about the RS-201W resistor box which he has. I searched on eBay for RS-201W but what I found for over US$1,000 (inc shipping) was way too expensive: IET Labs RS-201W Wide Range Precision Resistance Substituter.

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Mail Call #11: Costume Upgrade! And More Loot from AliExpress | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I get the new shirt for my costume.

Also some USB stuff from AliExpress:

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Mail Call #10: Thanks Craig! Also loot from AliExpress | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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In this video I receive Engineer’s Mini Notebook Volume II – Science and Communication Circuits & Projects all the way from the USA from my friend (and mentor (and reader (and viewer (and patron (and Lisp hacker))))) Craig. Thanks Craig! <3

I mention that the October 2024 edition of Silicon Chip magazine is out.

I mention that I recently got my symbol keyboard working on Linux! Pretty happy about that! These are the extra keys that I have at my workstation now: ° ± § λ Δ Σ Π Ω ε µ π θ

I also get a bunch of stuff from AliExpress, including:

And yes, despite confusion, I did get three lots of two different kinds of hard brushes, and yes, I did end up saying the wrong thing in the video! Can’t take me anywhere.

Oh, and as I mention in the video I am from a beautiful part of the world known as the Blue Mountains. It’s pretty hot here today!

In the end my collection of Arduino boards includes:

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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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Faulty Peak DCA55 Component Tester

I watched this great video: Faulty Peak DCA55 Component Tester – I was shocked! | Can I Fix It? They had an excellent result from Peak Electronic Design Limited when they sought support for the DCA55.

One day, when I am rich, I plan to get the full set of measurement devices manufactured by Peak Electronics.