I probably should be doing other things (engineering..?) but I spent my evening reading this one: Are We Really Engineers?.
Andy Serkis narrates the Lord of the Rings
According to wikipedia:
On 7 July 2021, HarperCollinsUK and Recorded Books announced Serkis would follow up his narration of The Hobbit with a professional recording of The Lord of the Rings to be released on 16 September. The CD will be released on 14 October.
The first episode is The Fellowship of the Ring.
SMD soldering by hot air
Today I learned about SMD soldering by hot air.
HackerNews Readings
This is great: HackerNews Readings. It’s a listing of 40,000 books recommended on Hacker News.
Unicode 14.0.0
So Unicode 14.0.0 is out.
JLCPCB for printed circuit boards
So in my travels recently I discovered JLCPCB. They can make custom circuit boards and their prices seem very affordable. I don’t know what other companies might be out there offering similar services but I don’t think I’ll need to look further…
Update: 2021-09-24 jj5 – also check out the service from Seeed Studio. Thanks to my mate Raz for the suggestion.
Chinese AM/FM radio kit (attempt 1)
So I got myself a 1set AM / FM stereo AM radio kit / DIY CF210SP electronic production suite. Here’s me preparing to put it together…
And here’s me failing with the surface mount integrated circuit and ruining the circuit board:
I think now it’s time to learn more about SMD soldering and to check out those who came before: CF210SP.
Here’s a picture of the PCB I ruined:
SPI: The serial peripheral interface
This via Lobste.rs today: SPI: The serial peripheral interface.
JSON Schema bundling finally formalised
Today via r/programming: JSON Schema bundling finally formalised.
New wrist pad
Out with the old and in with the new! I paid a bazzilion dollars to get one of these shipped in from America because I didn’t want one with branding.
