Chris Gammell's Analog Life

Tonight I extended the n8n workflow I use to enable images as well.

Even though I wish my geekiest friends lived close by so we could geek out in person, geeking out from afar is still appreciated.

So many new pieces of tech I have no idea why I would need such a things/feature/upgrade.

I recently recalled a college day memory when I was trying to cram so much new knowledge in my head that it was physically exhausting.

The more I think about live language translation in AirPods or phones, the more it makes me want to practice my Spanish language learning.

I’ve been thinking about books in the age of LLMs.

This is my first ’thought’ post type.

This post talks about my past few years of work doing hardware consulting and realizing just how many clients are looking for help building IoT projects.

I had the honor of speaking at the 2018 Hackaday Superconference over the weekend.

I proposed a talk to the Hackaday Superconference yesterday titled, “Improve your circuit toolbox: Simple designs that will save your next product”.

For the audio fans out there: I discussed this topic on episode #358 of The Amp Hour The past couple of years have been a mix of life events for me: I started my course full time, immediately jumped back into the work force (part time), traveled a bunch,…

I’m writing from a plane to Australia, coming off a couple days of holiday in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Today I’m announcing a new project: Pro bono engineering.

I turned 33 last week.

I’m rounding out a stint of travel to Serbia, Germany, the UK and am now back in the states.

Despite my love of words, I have never actually picked up another language.

I have been working on a new mode of connecting with others in the engineering community.

I’ve been playing drums since I was 8 years old; sooner than that if you count pots and pans.

Logolepsy One thing that I always loved on The Amp Hour was coming up with alliterative titles for the episodes (my favorite word is still “ostrobogulous“, used for episode 162).

One large change in my transition from a desk-based engineer to a “product manager helping desk-based engineers” (and part time basement-based engineer) is the sharp increase in travel.

I thought the thing I wanted more than anything else was to work alone.

Part of this site used to be public, but is now hidden; it’s a list of goals that I have for myself over the long term.

What is it about books?

This is a cross-post from the Contextual Electronics blog, as it affects readers here and there TL; DR: I am releasing all of the KiCad videos that were part of Contextual Electronics to the public and have started a new site/forum to support them.

Last week on my electronics podcast, The Amp Hour, I did something uncharacteristic: I mentioned where I’m working, while I’m working there.

I have corresponded with a international student for a few years now.

I’m paying way too much to get PCBs made.

Well, it’s my first day out on my own and I have already had a rejection.

This topic was discussed in greater detail in Episode 184 of to The Amp Hour.

I’ve been sour on education lately.

I’m not really sure why I hadn’t posted about it here in the past, but it’s true: I’m part of the Google Glass Explorer Program.

“But Chris, what happened to your milling videos?”

So I finally got my new end mills in the mail and got to the store to buy some 6061 aluminum (good prices on the clearance rack at The Metal Store!)

This is the first time I try cutting anything on the new mill.

If it hasn’t already been painfully obvious, I’m trying to learn mechanical stuff.

I’m pretty good at stressing myself out.

I got the mill out of the box and bolted together.

This video is showing all of the gear I purchased in preparation for getting my CNC mill up and running.

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I often find myself worried about where my job might be in the future.

So I’ve continued to keep myself busy lately.

No.

Another website?

I’m not around here too much anymore.

I’ve looked at a lot of resumes for electronics positions, so I thought I’d share some of my opinions on what should or shouldn’t be on there.

Oh hey, remember me?

I was contacted a while ago and dragged my feet, like any good engineer.

Horrible pun in the title, my apologies.

This past weekend I stopped into HGR, the local industrial surplus company in Northeast Cleveland.

Aside from the 555 contest I mentioned in my last post, my February was spent building the workbench I drew in Google Sketchup.