Author Archives: Dave

Just about to plunge into the marking season here, and this can be good and bad… if the marking goes well I usually reward myself by doing a bit of programming between every ten scripts or so. On the other … Continue reading →

In theory it’s a bank holiday here today, which means I don’t have to work. In practice, of course, there’s no way I could do this job if I didn’t work evenings, weekends and bank holidays, so today I’ve been … Continue reading →

With a few hours to go, I’ve finally managed to persuade myself to put the first chapter of the proposed book up here. It’s a brief introduction to the decibel, part of the “What You Need To Know About…” section. … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since the last post – and I had such hopes for making progress with this site over Easter. Sadly the usual story wrapped itself around my hopes, and I find myself here with four days left … Continue reading →

I’ve now lost count of the number of times I’ve wanted to know how to disable comments on pages, but leave comments enabled on blog posts. So I thought I’d start to keep a record here. The method seems to … Continue reading →

I’ve just installed a captcha. I was getting more than a little irritated by the large volume of spam I was getting, and I’ve finally given in. Akismet was one possibility, and while that won’t put anyone off commenting because … Continue reading →

The Karnaugh map demo is done now, finally. Another one that took much longer than I thought it would, as it turns out that designing and solving Karnaugh maps isn’t as straightforward as it looked at first sight. That’s why … Continue reading →

If all goes according to plan, I’ll put the analogue simulator up here tomorrow. It’s just about got op-amps sorted out now, although it took a little longer than expected to deal with the saturating states with positive feedback. (One … Continue reading →

There haven’t been any new demos for a little while. There are a few reasons for this (it’s term time, so there’s a lot of work to do; I was given to couple of PhD theses to examine and that … Continue reading →

I’ve been tearing my hair out recently trying to figure out how to make some video tutorials for the demos without spending money I don’t have. This should both be more useful, and faster, than writing some more conventional help … Continue reading →