My Element14 activity Log
I would like to introduce myself. I am a retired Senior Software Engineer with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Computer Science from Boston University. I Graduated from BU in 1980 and had been working as a Software E...
I have a few posts describing this project and I'm using this one as a master contents index to make it easier to find them all and to see how the project evolved.
Creating an Instrument Control Board: Initial idea and design.
Instrument Co...
Blue sea dragons, which have armor made of man-o-war prey they hunted, are living in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (Image Credit: Rebecca Helm/Twitter)
I've been so worried about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's a monument to environ...
Hi All!
It's 84 degrees her in Chicago and everybody is eating lunch outside. I hope nice weather is happening wherever you live. Now, back to work!
I'm writing today because I'd like to get 2 judges for our Experimenting with Current Sen...
Students' sobbing triggered the eye-tracker software. (Image Credit: Glenn Carstens-Peters/Unsplash)
Should they really crackdown on cheating?
Lockdowns have forced schools to adapt to remote learning, a more challenging experience compared to i...
Current sources and sinks have applications in many circuits and there are many ways to make them. This blog is a brief introduction to single transistor current sources. Horowitz and Hill cover this material in a more det...
If you are like me you don't use the XY plot function on your oscilloscope often but it can be handy at times. I was reviewing videos by W2AEW on YouTube and saw this one where he describes a simple method for viewing c...
Summer is around the corner. I'm hoping for a summer of sunny days and warm weather. What are you planning for this summer? For myself, I'm attending the Sensors Converge Conference in San Jose, CA, June 27-29, 2022. The conference will feature a lot...
It’s been difficult to miss news sites, and social media feeds: the planet is in trouble, and we are in need of solutions for our warming world. The latest climate report from the UN’s independent scientific body, the Intergovernmental Pa...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of...
This image shows the top three winners of the 2022 Science Talent Search, Amber Luo, Christine Ye, and Victor Cai, from left to right. (Image Credit: Society for Science)
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Society for Scienceannounc...
Is it summer yet?
I'm a warm-weather person, so summer is my favorite time of year. But it seems like the Spring this year in Chicago has been cold and wet, and moving forward too slowly for my taste.
To get everyone excited about the Summer (inc...
Another attempt at measuring the open-loop dc gain of an op amp, this time using the 'false summing-junction' method. The idea for this one came from a TI document comparing different approaches to testing op amps[1].
Before doing it for real, with a...
My friend Adrian recently showed me a plugin for KiCad that makes determining placement of components while populating a PCB easier. KiCad 6 has a feature that makes adding plugins simple. Open up KiCad and select the Plugin and...
Japanese researchers discover that folk music notes behave similarly to DNA strands. (Image Credit: Alexander Shatov)
Got music in your blood?
Researchers at Keio University in Fujisawa, Japan, discovered a direct link between folk music ...
As I still had the prototype board set up from looking at the open-loop gain, I thought I'd try another quick experiment. This time I'm going to attempt to measure the output resistance. I'll do this by back-driving the output of the DUT [device unde...
NASA’s Artemis project has goals of landing humans back on the moon, but the new budget makes it unlikely it will be happening soon. (Photo by History in HD on Unsplash)
I love this. Our government actually doing something useful.
This past w...
Engineering remains a male-dominated industry, with women making up just 15% of working professional engineers as of 2019, but that is not the whole story of the industry. Despite men disproportionately filling roles, women have made great strides in...
