BECOMING A WHOLESOME ENGINEER
Typically when I get new electronic components to play with, I just google the part number and lookup tutorials on how to get it working. This has been a pretty successful strategy more often than not. However, this wasn’t the case when I needed to get the HS420361K-32 4 digit 7 segment display to work….
My second post when I started this blog was about my choice of a prototyping board to explore, and I started out with an Arduino. Back then, one of my arguments for choosing the Arduino over the Raspberry Pi was cost. While the cost factor hasn’t changed all that much, I managed to get myself…
I had a conversation with my brother a while back where I was trying to pick his brain on how someone could figure out a problem(s) to solve using engineering techniques. My brother was a pretty solid candidate to pick since he’s an engineer, (yes this is a family of engineering kids, parents sought their…
So I have been tasked with coming up with a smart house idea that is to be used to demonstrate the awesomeness of the Arduino to high school students. The basic premise is that the house is supposed to be automated. It’s supposed to have lights that turn on automatically when one walks into a…
So recently, I decided that I wanted to root a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, because what is Android without root access, right? My first attempt at rooting the S4 mini ended with me bricking the phone! Not a very good experience I tell you. Luckily, I was able to get it back up and running….