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I have a pretty simple-sounding circuit I want to build, but am surprisingly having quite a bit of difficulty finding any guidance about it on the internet (maybe I haven’t found the right google term?).  It’s this: I want to provide a battery backup to a system, so that it can seamlessly switch between being…

I spent all yesterday dealing with some mistakes I had made in some boards; I thought I’d blog about it because 1) I spent time on it and want to feel like something came out of it :P, and 2) because I think it might be interesting to someone.  Personally I find it very interesting…

I guess this post is going to be the second in an unintentional two-part series on “things that I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about yet aren’t the core of the electronics issues.”  The first was about how I’ve improved my organizational setup, and this one is about the process of buying an entry-level…

I don’t have a particularly large or complex electronics setup, but that hasn’t stopped me from searching for the “perfect” way to organize everything.  I think I tend to obsess over my plan because 1) it’s easy to feel like it’s critically important, and 2) it’s something that can be difficult to change.  In software…