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One of the biggest projects my schools amateur radio club, K2CC, has taken on this semester is launching a High-Altitude Weather Balloon to capture photos and sensor data from altitudes as high as 20 miles. I have been working with a team of people to design, build and program a microcontroller powered instrument pack. Over [...]
Received my SparkFun order today, amongst the contents were the things I was seeking most, several 10k breadboard compatible potentiometers, three dual op-amps (LM358), three super bright 10mm LEDs (One red, green and blue) as well as a few other toys. The two biggest deals are the opamps and the potentiometers, while not strictly the [...]
I was building a project using Perfboard today. I hate using perfboard, mostly because I’m bad at it and it always comes out looking like crap. So I’m using it specifically to get better at it because it’s much cheaper than a PCB, and easier to fix, and generally faster (though not currently because I’m [...]