Bald Engineer

One of the best ways to describe a transistor is as an “electronic switch.” They are solid state devices that make up almost everything in our world. This video by Veritasium, …

Minecraft animation from PoetPlays. Happy Holidays Everyone.

What was one of the first things you were taught, when learning to program? “Comment Your Code!” And of course, like all programming students, you ignored that advice. Or, if you …

Early in my engineering career, I worked for an oscilloscope company in the high performance product line. The last project I worked on was defining the features and requirements …

The Open Vapors project has taken some big steps forward recently. The controller’s enclosure is now a custom box, has a front panel, and the LCD’s menu system is almost done. …

The 11th AddOhms Video is live and the subject is What is a MOSFET, and how to use them. This turned out to be the longest video I’ve made so far. In fact, I probably should have …

Modern smartphones have eliminated the need for a number of devices. Often I use my smartphone as a scanner (CamScanner), car GPS, voice recorder, security token, pedometer, light …

The Arduino IDE is great in that with a single download on any PC platform, new users can start writing code and see immediate results. The same simplicity though, limits some of …

Sometimes the hardest lessons are the ones you have to learn multiple times. When getting started with Electronics circuits, there’s a handful of things that can ruin a day (or …

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