WD5GNR rambles about microcontrollers, ham radio, electronics, the Internet, science fiction, and other oddball things.
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Welcome Well, as if I don't have enough stuff on the Web,
I've decided to post an electronics-oriented "blog" to replace the defunct Al's Electronic Workshop program.
What can you expect? Who knows? My random thoughts and finds on electronics, microcontrollers, ham radio, the Internet,
and who knows what else? I've been blogging for awhile since the magazine I used to work for (New Architect) has a blog (the "daily")
that I wrote to (along with the other editors). Where else am I on the Web?
Programming and consulting Electronics
Ham Radio and PIC/CPLD/FPGA Tutorial.
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Al Williams
WD5GNR Rambles
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Wednesday, April 17
Star Trek... er, sort of Even if you aren't a die hard Star Trek fan, you ought to get a chuckle out of this site: http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer/STONETREK.html. This guy should be working as a professional animator (and maybe he is, I don't know).
09:17
Sunday, April 14
Morse Code Practice Online at http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/morse.html. You can even take the test. Is it just me, or does it seem like when I do find someone on the air that is going "my" speed, they are so weak or sloppy that I still can't copy them?
10:53
Saturday, April 13
PC Tune up Tune up your PC online at http://www.pcpitstop.com/. Pretty slick.
19:41
Friday, April 12
Online CAD... Sort of Have a look at this online application for drawing schematics.
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Thursday, April 11
Amazing Stuff
Two things I've found recently of interest. First, I picked up "lead free soldering iron cleaner/tinner" at Radio Shack (although it looks as though they are discontinuing it). I've seen these made by Kester and you can get them anywhere. This is a little tin of some gray material. When you wipe a hot iron on it, the iron comes away clean and as shiny as a mirror.
The other item of interest in MG Liquid Tin. This is a liquid that tin plates your copper boards at ROOM TEMPERATURE. Seems to work pretty well. Expensive though. I paid about $30 for a half liter.
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Monday, April 8
New URL Our pages have moved to www.wd5gnr.com although the old links will transparently take you to the same new page for a very long time still (maybe forever). Getting a domain is not as expensive as it used to be. GoDaddy will register your domain for around $9/year. There is a cheap Web host called CyberWings that seems to cheap to be true. How cheap? Their plans range from $2.10 to $32.50/year. That isn't a typo -- the price per year is about what you'd pay most hosts for a month. No secure server, though. No shell account either. But you do get a cgi directory and FrontPage support. The other catch is that it takes 7-10 days to get an account set up.
So far, I have two domains hosted with them (for a total of about $8 for both). My only concern is that I have to wonder if they can stay in business with that kind of pricing.
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