Last July I wrote about using Adobe Illustrator to design the schematics I publish here and why I prefer it (you can read that post here). In recent weeks I’ve come to realize two things: despite a great deal of effort on my part, I can’t really design printed circuit boards with Illustrator, and I [...]

It’s been a few months since I last posted here … I don’t think there are any constant visitors who’ve been bummed out about the lack of activity, but I apologize nonetheless.
Since we last spoke I threw the LED matrix project out to the Do It Yourself Christmas community to see if I could get [...]

For those of the opinion that I fell off the face of the earth, fear not: I merely got involved in non-electronics, such as dealing with a kitchen remodel and unwell pets.
That said, I also focused a bit in recent months on my Christmas lights show and have documented there a few of the DIY [...]

It isn’t that I was dying to have a blog — in fact, I’ve tried to stay away from blogging for years.
A few months back it became clear that this electronics thing wasn’t going to go away. I was, in fact, going to be building more circuits over time and perhaps even designing them. I [...]