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July, 2022

Status monitoring vs. performance monitoring dashboards

I’ve seen a lot of dashboards that failed to meet users’ and organizations’ expectations. There are a variety of reasons why this happens and, in this videos, I focus on one of the most common ones, which is that the people who designed the dashboard didn’t fully understand the distinction between status monitoring and performance monitoring.

ARISS-SSTV images blog

Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images transmitted from the International Space Station and other ARISS supported satellites

This site will be the focal point for some of the best SSTV images received during Oct 2008 and beyond. Images will be downlinked by ISS on 145.800 MHz. To view some of the received images transmitted from the ISS

Yes, the 8086 wanted to be mechanically translatable from the 8080, but why not add the ability to indirect through AX, CX and DX?
Writing a Raspberry Pi ARM GPIO Driver in C

In this video, we talk about the purpose of drivers and why they are necessary when working on embedded systems. Later, we go over how to install the Raspberry Pi kernel headers and use them to write a kernel driver for the device. Finally, we install the kernel driver and prove that it is running

Forrest Mims – Engineer’s Mini-Notebook

These notebooks sold at Radio Shack when I was growing up in the mid 70s and 80s were very popular and great education source. From the Wikimedia article: "Forrest M. Mims III is an American amateur scientist, magazine columnist, and author of Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer's Mini-Notebook series of instructional books that were originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force."

Handbook of hardware schemes, cables and connectors layouts pinouts

We are gathering information on interfaces of modern and obsolete electronic hardware: pin-outs of interface ports, diagrams of PC components, wiring of various devices and connectors. Information on functions of pins in connectors (pinout) is essential for everyone who wants to explore modern hardware, investigate the way it works, interconnect various devices, make DIY electronic equipment.

There are 3134 documents in our database.

Wired Communications

Good source of some electronics, adapters, coax, LED Lights, Cables, Connectors, Adapters and RV power panels