Robotics Guy's Blog

I've used Notepad++ for several years now and have yet to find it's equal. Sure, there are full blown PHP IDEs available, but those are more advanced than what I need and are slow. Notepad++ is very lightweight and starts up almost instantly, has great syntax highlighting, and works for many different languages. In short, it's great. Today...

I recently purchased a My Weigh iBALANCE 601 precision scale for measurements and parts counting. This scale rocks so hard, I just had to write a short review.!

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There's a saying, "Big things come in small packages." So, what comes in big packages? Small things of little value, of course. Take this package I received, for example:



A fairly large package, right? I wonder what could be...

I usually can spot scam emails right off the bat, but I have to admit, this one almost got me.


Dear Webmail Account Owner,

This message is from the University Webmail Messaging Center to all email account owners.

We are currently carrying out scheduled maintenance,upgrade of our web mail service and we are changing our mail host server,as a...

When I tried to import my localhost MySQL database sql file into phpMyAdmin today I was greeted with the following error:

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The solution was pretty simple, and I'll post it in...

I recently found out about the new IDE Microchip has been working on, called MPLAB X. The new development environment for PIC microcontrollers has a plethora of new features and offers a much nicer user interface than its predecessor, MPLAB v.8. Rather than using a proprietary development environment, like the previous versions of MPLAB, Microchip opted to...

I’ve always been a little intimidated by SMDs. I mean, they are really, really, small, and I was under the impression you had to have a hot air rework station to use them. Recently, however, I came across a great article on SparkFun showing how to use a skillet to reflow...