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Simulating Your PCB Online or Offline with Software List of PCB simulators/ ESP32 simulators/ Arduino simulators... online, and offline PCB/ -Hardware simulators to help smooth out those bumpy rides we might take when working with these some times finnicky components. I personally like the "reverse engineering" feature some have... even having the capability to whip up schematics from images of the PCB.  Simple/ Easy Project Completion Effortlessly providing third party services resources to complete your project. And, how easy is it, once you've finished, a parts list can be provided, going as far as direct part numbers to get, prices, links to components, estimated costs/ totals.. even directly being able to forward your project to a service like PCB Way- where everything is provided without any extra work on our end. In no particular order, adding new ones as I learn about them, and adding notes as I further try these PCB simulators out or end up using 1 or some as my ...

  Recording infrasound  used   to be complicated and expensive.  With the RedVox Infrasound app, anybody can now explore the inaudible sound field around them, and help build a global hazards and noise monitoring network.    Exciting piece of news hit the inbox today, August 28th, 2024- RedVox's wicked audio recording app "Infrasound Recorder"- though already a great app with a very complete spectrogram of the live audio, with record/ replay capabilities and AI sound description-  Now, all features of the paid version are also available to all, for free. What are the extra features? I am not clear on that myself just yet- this was a sticking point on actually paying for the paid app in the past... I just couldn't get what extra features would be available but will be exploring this side of things ASAP- I'll report back once I'm up to speed on these new offerings. I believe that the once paid for, now available to all features actually have more to do w...

Making electronics such as semiconductors and pioneering advances in integrated circuits. Consistently Texas Instruments brings us innovation - in their "about me" they state this mentioning advancements "to make technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable and more affordable" – "Engineering Progress.", that is what Texas Instruments are about. Wireless/ RF Texas Instruments  or TI with their many product offerings and solutions, many of which fall into the category of being wireless- that is what our modern world is now- involving many technologies, but today we are talking more in the area of RF or Radio Frequencies. Though these technologies have advanced, and our knowledge has grown in said technologies- still, limitations exist. One of them, when talking about RF is the range that your solution needs, and realistically, the actual range possible with the technologies being utilized.  How Far Can My RF Signal Transmit? Receive? Sorry to burst you...

 Mostly for me to remember, but Windows at times has a lapse in judgement with certain devices, DIY gadgets, peripherals that you maybe trying to connect to- for me, it was my HackRF( I have since stumbled upon a better way to start for the HackF if having driver woes- which I will cover in another post- but keep reading, since this is still good knowledge to know regarding driver issues )- no matter what, my PC could not recognize the HackRF/ or would recognize it, but as a keyboard. I required Windows to apply the correct drivers to the device so that it could be recognized for what it is... a...SDR. A HackRF.  Guessing What's Right... Making Assumptions. Getting it Wrong. So, really what we see here is that when connecting that never connected before thing into your PC, Windows is making an assumption on what that thing is, and then applying the best driver that it thinks suites that thing... From experience, and a general rule of life... "assumptions" aren't the b...

 While perusing the vast interwebs, I'd get sucked back into my inbox where in a email garnered my attention- It had been some time since I'd visited this particular sender's site... I believe, I had actually requested the email subscription cancelled... yet.. the emails kept on being sent. Not as aggressively as in the past, I'll give them that. The sender in question is actually an online web shop, mainly geared to audio files & keyboard enthusiasts-g the site is Drop. Yup. There isn't much that interests me there these days... I find a good potion of the items available on Aliexpress(ok, maybe not so fancy of form factor.....but $100 keycaps?) . I got sucked in, & hard...found myself doing the endless scrolling through products to possibly find that 1 rare gem.... I didn't find anything... projectwise.... actually, 1 of my intended reasons for having poked onto the site was to see if there was anything related to a defective product I had purchased so...

 Audio has a many time sparked my imagination, leading me to discoveries that expand my already set out interests. The sounds of bass and tempo, Detroit House from many years ago to move to- groove to. Learning about physics, math through such ideas as sending, receiving/ listening from far distances(and short) using novel means such as lasers. Physiology/ psychology- how sound effects  the human- the good/ the bad. Humble reminders of how large and diverse the world around us by utilizing Software Defined Radio with the many frequencies that are invisible to us, yet bathe us constantly- sub giga hertz garage door openers, vehicle tire pressure sensors, the many other sensors- transmitting/ receiving constantly/ continuously- the static our devices make- electromagnetic frequencies- infrasound and discovering the rumbling noises the earth makes, the sounds of an eruption, discovering earth quakes and or thunder from distance far and wide- incorporating multiple devices to do t...

 "Hello World" - how cliché , though couldn't find/ what else/ but, what better way to start things off than that?  Maybe? <? = "Hello world\n" ?> Just another way to say it... alert ( 'Hello World' ) ; ... & an other... print ( 'Hello World' ) ... many of which I may not be familiar with just yet. If you hadn't caught on, maybe you have? In that case, you are one sharp fox- Yes, these are variations of scripting/ programming languages. Since I am not one to be the most capable of mesmerizing such minutiae, but still want to learn as much as I can in the areas that interests me... this will be my repository of sorts... A collection of the many things that spark interest in me &/ or I believe would hold value in sharing with others... Whomever that may be that stumbles across this piece of the internet pie. So...enjoy... stay awhile... browse around... send me a message, a comment, criticism is w...