Author Archives: M. Eric Carr

A Change In The Weather

The Weather Prognosticator has been updated to work with the (free) OpenWeatherMap.Org API. Continue reading →

The TinyFPGA BX, plus ICEStudio, make FPGA development open source and almost Arduino-easy. Continue reading →

Posted in Digital, Electronics, FPGAs, Reviews, Tools, Toys, Verilog | Tagged Digital Design, FPGA, HDL, ICEStudio, TinyFPGA, Verilog | Leave a comment

Sometimes the best tool for the job is a big (computational) hammer. Continue reading →

Posted in Algorithms, C, Coding, Math | Tagged algorithm, algorithms, backtracking, brute force, recursion, Sudoku | Leave a comment

Lenz’s Law explodes an NMOSFET and kills an Arduino Uno. (Sometimes, Science goes bang.) Continue reading →

Posted in Analog, Arduino, Digital, Electronics, Fundamentals, Power, Toys | Tagged back EMF, coil, coils, inductance, inductor, inductors | Leave a comment