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The Future of Open Source
Open source software has been around for a long time, and I’ve been following it’s evolution for the past 10 years or so, and in that time I’ve seen it grow from a small idea known only to those in...
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The Future of Open Source (Part II)
In our first piece, The Future of Open Source, I talked a bit about hardware, and touched on community, as well as mentioned a few specific companies. This time I’ll talk about specific pieces of...
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Getting Started with the Atmega32u4 Breakout Board+
I’ve talked about Adafruit’s Atmega32u4 Breakout Board+ before, first in my post Teensy vs. Atmega32u4 Breakout Board+ and then in the post The Future of Open Source (Part II), so I figured I should...
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UI Mockup/Diagram Apps
I wanted to mock up a control panel for a project (a real physical control panel, not a software control panel) and remembered that I had OmniGraffle on one of my machines, so I started with that....
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Beam me up!
Beam systems make construction of thing easy, or precise, or both. I keep seeing more of these systems, so I figured I’d write-up the ones I’ve seen. MakerBeam Back in 2009 MakerBeam, a Mini-T...
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#TeamArduinoCC
In accordance with a request from organizations and people I respect, here’s a photo take on 2015-04-19 showing the packaging from an Arduino UNO I purchased from Adafruit Industries (in the United...
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Seeeduino Nano
The folks over at Seeed Studio sent me a Seeeduino Nano to check out. I’ve used a lot of Arduino boards over the years, including plenty of cheap Arduino Nano clones. Most of the clones have worked...
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Atom is my New Text Editor
I started using BBEdit back in the 1990s and eventually moved to jEdit in the 2000s. Well, it’s 2020 now and since I tend to change text editors every ten years or so, I’m behind schedule! I’m pretty...
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