Vetting a Germicidal Lamp
With the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 in full spate, many concerned people are turning to ultraviolet (UV) light sources to destroy the...
Converting and Interpreting Decibels
Decibels (dB) are an important unit for dealing with electronic signals. And even though their scaling properties and endless variants such as...
Economic Recession Tips for Students and Grads
You can change your degree plan, but you can’t change the economy. That’s one of the lessons you learn as a graduate...
Outbreak-Related Phishing Scams on the Rise
In March of 2020, the United States Secret Service issued an alert regarding COVID-19 (Coronavirus) phishing scams. The respiratory disease—which was officially...
Rejecting Images in Software Defined Radio
Software-defined radios (SDRs) are able to capture virtually any form of radio emission. Popular SDR chipsets such as the very low-cost RTL-SDR...
RISC-V Development for Linux Users
So far, I’ve unboxed a couple of low-cost development kits featuring a relatively new Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) called the RISC-V. The...
Unboxing the Sparkfun RED-V Thing Plus Board
Unboxing the RED-V Thing Plus
Not too long ago, a relatively new instruction set
architecture (ISA) hit the embedded programming...
Embedded Technology Watchlist: 2020-2030
Embedded systems are constantly changing the way we live and work. Now that the year 2020 is here, we've decided to...
Review: The C Programming Language
The C Programming Language is a bit of an anomaly among
software programming books. It has maintained
relevance over the course of more than...
Review: The Hobbyist’s Guide to the RTL-SDR
Wireless electronics are becoming more and more flexible thanks to a relatively new class of radio called the software-defined radio (SDR). Older,...