First off - I have managed to play some lately! First I did some fun spiking in Flash figuring out some interesting solutions to a problem I was having (I’ll post more about that soon on the Automata Studios blog.). Then, this weekend I managed to spend some time digging in with some electronics. We currently have a project that requires a lot of hardware integration and I needed to build a debugging module for all of it (let’s just say I didn’t want to setup a full HVAC setup!). I ended up designing and building the whole thing - and it worked the first time! Holy cow!

It was a lot of fun really defining the problem and then scouring the net for the information I needed. I re-learned a lot of basic electronic theory that I learned back in high school and then went further to really finally understand capacitors, diodes, rectifiers and even a bit of AC theory. Oh - and I found out I haven’t fully lost my soldering skills too!