LEDs are the EE equivalent of debugging print statements except that you don't have to remove them and the more you use the cooler your finished product is.

The local radio station KMXQ went off the air a few months ago. I do not know the real reason but if you asked me I would say it was because they played non-stop cubicle country fusion garbage and everyone stopped giving a shit ten years ago and their inertia finally ran out. This left a rift however as it is often the local radio station's roll to ( Read more... )

I tried to post this last night, but my ethernet switch was failing and I was suffering ~40% packet loss ( Read more... )

My homemade vertical HF antenna on the South side of my house has been acting up. I have been getting a lot of intermittent noise from it while receiving, especially on frequencies below 1MHz, and especially when the antenna is shook by the wind. I spent a few hours either electrically bonding or insulating rusty metal parts and guy/counterpoise ( Read more... )

I quickly realize how stupid it is to look up datasheets for each one. I own a voltmeter, and resistors, and variable power supplies, and wire...
I use the term "junk bin" loosely. I have many, over a wide area. I could start a business.

One of these days I am going to build Microwavehenge.

At about 7:55pm it was blowing snow and I had just left my house to go to KTEK and DJ ( Read more... )

About two weeks ago, I snuck into the Tienda de Segundo while on the clock and picked up a few things. A bike for rexar, a old broken radio, a nebulizer compressor, and a power supply. I think I spent a total of 3 dollars. I found the power supply to be particularly interesting. It had a strange output connector on the end of a cable, and the ouput was ( Read more... )

I found a song that sounds better with my transformer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jgiAqwQ9bA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n0IQbPs6Co