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Social Media Guide for Engineers, a How-To

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:48:45 +0000

Bloomicon / Shutterstock.com Engineers are notorious introverts. An untrue generalization is that introverts hate being social. Like all humans, introverts are social creatures. We just prefer only to discuss the topics which are of interest to us. We will listen to anything. This social media guide for engineers explains why and how you can participate in social media, without being social. Let’s address something head-on. Gone are the days of just “here’s what I ate” or “I’m in the bathroom” social posts. Social media channels are mature platforms for communication. Sure, junk still exists. However. You can filter out the signal from the noise when you following my social media guide for engineers.

Introducing the AddOhms TutorialCast

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:53:51 +0000

Over the past several months I have been kicking around a new way to teach non-engineers about electronics. My idea is to use simple language to explain complex engineering subjects. Each video will be in the range of 3-5 minutes. While putting together the first couple of topics I started to realize I wanted this to be something to stand on its own. So I have created a separate webpage, twitter account, and YouTube Channel for this TutorialCast called “AddOhms.”

BinBoo: Building the front panel LEDs

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:14:06 +0000

Short build-lapse video of building up the front panel “matrix” used in BinBoo. This isn’t a true LED matrix. Instead it combining all of the LEDs into a common Anode, since the Cathodes are all controlled by individual outputs of the TLC5940. I decided to wire up 16 LEDs, even though a binary clock only needs 11 or 12. This gives some flexibility to other uses for the box, like a random sci-fi computer pattern.