Author Archives: M. Eric Carr

Component Tester

Posted on 2019-05-31 by M. Eric Carr

The microcontroller revolution has accelerated the development of tools available to the electronics industry. Multimeters (recently, DMMs) and oscilloscopes (recently, DSOs) have been a staple of electronics workbenches for decades, along with signal generators, frequency counters, and other specialized tools. … Continue reading →

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NodeMCU

Posted on 2019-04-30 by M. Eric Carr

New toys are always such fun, especially when you find a replacement for a component that has more features, better specs, and costs half as much. The Arduino Uno is deservedly popular. It makes introductory embedded system design easy, and … Continue reading →

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Recursion

Posted on 2019-03-27 by M. Eric Carr

“To know recursion, you must first know recursion.” (Original author unknown) Much of the fun of writing code is learning about all of the various algorithms and techniques that help get the job done. Some of these are relatively straightforward: … Continue reading →

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Large Graphics Using FreeBASIC

Posted on 2019-02-27 by M. Eric Carr

FreeBASIC is a fun language for playing around with algorithms. You can do a lot with it, but it’s still lightweight enough that a few lines of code are sufficient to start doing what you want. I recently discovered that … Continue reading →

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