A person recently asked me what is needed to get his high school children started learning about micro-controllers and IoT. I recommended to him Raspberry Pi. There are other good platforms available (of course) but few have the versatility and online resources of the Pi. So I gave him a Read more…
On a more recent post, I wrote about a trip I took to Boise State to meet with prospective research advisors and tour the facilities. To prepare for this trip I purchased six 298×128 pixel E-Paper modules from Waveshare to use as ultra-modern business cards. Three were red and three Read more…
Last week I broke a solder pad off of a printed circuit board. As far as pads go, this one was fairly large, about 3mm x 3mm. It was used to hold a small CR 1220 batter holder to the board. Because of the size of the pad, I opted Read more…