Yesterday I got another shipment with electronics parts, which is almost better than Xmas. Among other things it contained a remarkably cheap energy meter. They’ve also got a link to a c’t-article about energy meters there. For readers of adafruit blog, it is similar to a “Kill-a-watt”, but for 220V 50Hz. This one only costs [...]
A few days ago I visited my parents. The main purpose was to ‘deposit’ my new Lecroy WaveAce224 DSO. I bought it as a gift for myself, but I haven’t fulfilled all criteria to receive the gift yet. Therefore my parents are ‘guarding’ it for me until I’m allowed to have it. As Lecroy were [...]
I’m just keeping my mind busy, ordering some thoughts and testing my memory.
Almost 20 years ago I was lucky to have a math teacher willing to teach our class ‘all about’ complex numbers. At that time there were some changes to the curriculum and he could have skipped that or chosen something else. I don’t [...]
I’m trying to save money.
Heating up water with electricity is madness. It costs a fortune and most likely fossil fuels were burned for that before. So why not use my gas/water heater and a simple bucket for getting warm water into my washing machine ? It only comes with a hose for cold water. The [...]
New Year is over, time to post something new to get the fireworks images out of the way ;-) Here’s a slogan that’s a perfect match to my current state of mind:
“Until you decide that NOTHING will stop you from success, EVERYTHING will.”
That one contains a lot of wisdom.
And now some images of snow (lots [...]
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