Bald Engineer

One of the recent changes in pop-culture is that “nerds are cool.” Most people who claim to be a nerd like to wear 1950s (non-corrective) glasses and download Apps on their iPhone. …

A friendly reminder video to everyone asking for help in a programming forum. Lately I’ve been looking for ways to expand on the content in the AddOhms YouTube channel. One of the …

Warning, the title of this post is a little bit misleading. It isn’t just one-click to get cleanly formatted code, it’s actually two. There are two things seasoned programmers will …

Title: The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. Most electronics books are written by engineers, for engineers. It is difficult to find an extremely comprehensive …

Every Addohms project follows the same pattern. About 80% of my original idea makes it into the video while the remaining 20% I make up on the fly. Of course, when I do that, I …

When your project needs a transistor, there are tons of choices. Which makes answering the question “Which transistor should I use or buy?” a daunting task. Fear not, before wading …

What does Silicon have to do with Social Media? Silicon’s Atomic Number is 14. Wait what? Oh… element14 is, basically, a social media site for electrical engineers, embedded …

When most people say “Arduino” they mean an ATmega328 based board like the Uno. This means a simple 8-bit microcontroller with only 2K of RAM. That’s 2,048 bytes of memory to work …

There is one mistake that all C programmers make, regardless of experience. You’ll do it often when you get started, but never completely stop. The mistake? Confusing the …

Each year it is fun to see who gets “got”. With Twitter fever getter hotter each day, people can’t help but spread juicy news details. Here’s a running list of the April Fool’s …