A couple of days ago I arrived in Medellin, Colombia.

The last time I was here – three years ago – I was a different man.

I was single.
I was writing my first book with a publisher.
And I was building Ohmify from the ground up.
[Read more…] about This is where Ohmify started

I’m on the train now, watching the Norwegian nature getting ready for winter.

While I’m getting ready for summer!

This week I’ve been busy packing and teaching.

Packing because my wife and I are hitting the road for a few months. [Read more…] about Update: I’m packing my bags

At the beginning of October, I went to Sweden to create something new.

I wanted to create a course where you would learn a really useful skill through building a specific project.

And today I added the finishing touch my newest course:

“Design a Kitchen Timer With Kicad” [Read more…] about New course available: Kitchen Timer

“Argh!”

It doesn’t work!

I had been sitting at Bitraf for two days.

Bitraf is a makerspace/hackerspace in Oslo.

It has several desks where people can sit and work on their project.

And there are lots of tools for working with wood, metal, electronics, and more.

The circuit I built for the next course on Ohmify didn’t work. [Read more…] about It doesn’t work?

Have you ever heard experts in electronics talk about a project?

Often it sounds like they were born an expert.

They talk about reactance, EMI filters, and what-not as it were as simple as tying your shoes.

When I did an interview with Elias Bakken – who’s a real wizard in electronics – I wanted to know how he got started. [Read more…] about How did the “pros” get started in electronics?

Yesterday I was hosting a meetup on designing circuit boards in Oslo.

We designed a really cool display using 90 LEDs!

But, one of the first things that happened was:

…almost everybody got different errors in the software we were using; Kicad.

The thing with Kicad right now is that it is undergoing major changes. [Read more…] about Failures in electronics