Entries from Orange Cone tagged with 'electronics'

Smart Lights: where ethernet-over-power is useful

This is an outline of a project that I've had on the drawing board for years, and it looks like I'm not going to actually instantiate it, so I decided today (after being prompted by a foo camp mailing list...

The Magic Smoke in Electronics

While writing the last entry, I remembered a tongue-in-cheek myth from electrical engineering, documented in Wikipedia, which says that there is a little bit of magic blue smoke in every integrated circuit, resistor, transistor, and all other electronic components and...