Articles especially pertinent to Senior Design Projects
Surface-mount soldering tutorial
Don’t use Nyquist as your only criterion for choosing a sampling rate
RP2040 resources from Cornell from their microprocessor design course ECE 4760
Wearable sensor for continuous analysis of sweat
Astrophotography and the new HD Raspberry Pi Camera
Raspberry Pi HD Camera for astrophotography
AstroPitography | Dr Adam Luke Baskerville
My DIY 8″ Telescope & Raspberry Pi HQ Camera
Astrophotography with Raspberry Pi HQ Camera and Celestron Astromaster 130 EQ
I2CWrapper – Using microcontrollers to translate I2C for non-I2C devices
System for digital signing of photographs
… and breaking the system for digital signing of photographs
Forest-deployed wildfire sensing and reporting system
New series of ATtiny µP eliminates requirement for dedicated pins
Blogs and Vlogs
Engineering, specifically EE, CompE
Eric Bogatin – Practical EE/CompE fundamentals and practical skills
Andreas Spiess – LoRa, low-power, sensor networks, ESP8266, ESP32
David Jones – EEVblog; instrumentation, troubleshooting, repair
Bil Herd – electrical engineer, designer at Commodore; CPLD, PLL
Moritz Klein – Audio electronics
Fran Blanche – FranLab; Apollo flight computer, DSKY, FranTone audio pedals
Big Clive – tear-downs
Ben Krasnow – Applied Science; including electronics; how he built his own electron microscope
Alan [w2aew] – tutorials on components; ham radio; RF
Security
Steve Gibson – Security Now podcast – a MUST for computer security folks; good episodes on internet components
Science & Math
Michael Stevens – Vsauce, The Mind Field
Grant Sanderson – 3Blue1Brown; math concepts, including a good visualization of Fourier analysis
Ben Sparks, Holly Krieger – Numberphile; math concepts, including large numbers and number theory
Matt Parker – Stand-Up Maths, lectures at Royal Institution
Brady Heywood – Understanding Complexity, complexity theory
Grady Hillhouse – Practical Engineering, particularly civil engineering
Making, Robots, and Machinery
Adam Savage – amazing maker, MythBusters
Simone Giertz – general making, silly projects
Jeremy Fielding – general EE topics; built a cool robot arm
Tim Hunkin – very fun arcade game maker – machining tips
Other Sites of Topical Interest
The Cave Pearl Project – remote underwater sensing; excellent documentation of battery systems, sensors, builds
Interesting circuit uses only two wires for power and status (not TWI)
Comparison of manufacturers of PCBs in small quantities (incl. PCBWay, OSHPark, and JLCPCB)
How to use a thermal camera to troubleshoot electronics projects
Failures are important, and sharing them is more so
An interesting cascade of failures
Mechanical analog fire-control computers
FloodNet – distributed flood sensing system for NYC
Acoustic detection of water leaks
Circuit board for a differential oscilloscope probe
Three designs for bidirectional voltage level shifting
Introduction to Kalman Filters, useful for combining data from multiple sources
(Mis)using LoRa nodes to sense soil moisture
Microphone array to isolate individual voices
Using the Matter protocol on ESP32
Building or buying contact piezo microphones
Internet Black Hole – Danger!
Destin Sandlin – SmarterEveryDay; how stuff works, including helicopters, nuclear subs, the James Webb space telescope
Derek Muller (PhD Physics) – Veritasium
Mark Rober – e.g. squirrel obstacle course, glitter bomb, world’s smallest Nerf gun
Markus Voelter – Omega Tau podcast; aviation, gliders, rides in fighters. Half of his podcasts are in English; the other half in German
Scary (but interesting) stuff – Don’t do this at home (nor at M5, nor for SDP)!!!
Mehdi Sadaghdar – ElectroBOOM; high-voltage stuff; fun to watch
Colin Furze – crazy powerful builds
Plasma Channel – plasma thrusters
Styro Pyro – big scary lasers