With the holidays now behind us and with a few gifts cards in hand, the question before many is what to buy? When starting out in any hobby, electronics tinkering especially, there is just way too much useful stuff to acquire at once. This “stuff” breaks down into two categories: Tools and Parts (aka consumables). The advice…
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Gears of Resistance Episode #12 26 July 2015 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/GOR/2015/GOR_0012_26JUL15.mp3 This week we cover it all, including: Super Fancy Third Arm Kit Particle.io Photon Node.js Photon / Node.js demo project on GitHub hackster.io page MakerSpace.com page SatNOGS HC-05 Bluetooth and Arduino Blynk app for Android and iOS SnapEDA Octopart Common…
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Gears of Resistance Episode #7 3 May 2015 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/GOR/2015/GOR_0007_3MAY15.mp3 In this week’s episode we talk about the news from Microsoft’s Build Developer Conference and the announcement about their IoT initiatives with Arduino and Raspberry Pi. We also answer listener mail about what tools you need when getting started doing electronics. Some links from the episode: Microsoft…
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Inspired by Benjamin Franklin‘s dedication to productivity I sat out to detail what an ideal productive day is for me. I rarely achieve the ideal day, but it does give me a target to try for rather than wandering aimlessly. It also gave me a chance to review the tools I actually use in a…
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In my nearly 20 years of engineering, I have found there are two types of creative people you must have in your groups if you want to be innovative while making awesome things. I call them “the Tool-igans” and the “Product Jocks.” Both are passionate about technology and both love to build, but there are…
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