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October 2009
ESD and Hand Tools
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 9:23 P GMT-06
Last spring I came across an article in Conformity magazine that made me think about ESD risks [1]. The article described how hand tools can be a significant source of ESD when working on circuit boards. Hand tools can be designed to mini
Metal Casting Project Failure
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 9:03 P GMT-06
This past weekend while I was camping, I fired up the flower pot furnace that I constructed for the first time. Needless to say I did not have success. First, I put some hot coals from the camp fire in, turned on the air intake fan and c
Category: Home Projects
Singleton Pattern
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 8:40 P GMT-06
I learned about the concept of a singleton in object oriented methodology and I've started to understand the implementation in C#. A singleton is a design pattern commonly used in object oriented programming in which a class is designed suc
Category: Software Design
Outdoor Fire Pit Project - Part 3
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 8:37 P GMT-06
This is a continuation of the outdoor fire pit project. On September 27 I completed the project. I had to buy more bricks and more mortar to complete it. We ran out of the 50 lb. pale of mortar toward the end of the top row. I had b
Category: Home Projects
Lifetime in the Information Age = 7 years
Thursday, 1 October 2009 7:43 P GMT-06
The pace of technology advancement is almost unbelievable. In the past 15 years the internet has grown from almost nothing into an indispensable part of life. I can recall the BBS's that were prevalent in my youth which were text base
Category: Computers