I don’t think you should focus on the failure of others, or even the success of others. What you do need to do—and what is surprisingly hard—is to define success for your own part of the world, and work towards that. Non-monetary success, because again, money lags.
Via Tom, and I agree with this so much. I think about this every time I see these kinds of headlines, about how companies are doomed and they’re failing and the metric you should be chasing is over here. But I also think about it in the framework of contentment and personal growth. I know it doesn’t pay the bills, and that part’s just as important, but for me it’s about iteration and forward progress on those goals.
CoolTerm is a simple serial port terminal application (no terminal emulation) that is geared towards hobbyists and professionals with a need to exchange data with hardware connected to serial ports such as servo controllers, robotic kits, GPS receivers, microcontrollers, etc.
The Oregon Outback Dark Sky Network (ODSN) has completed the first phase of a multi-phased project to establish a landscape-level International Dark Sky Sanctuary within the largest, contiguous dark sky zone in the lower 48 United States.
The barriers are like hinged airplane hangar doors with shielded upper view screens. The estimated cost of the local upgrade was estimated at $4.5 million, including renovations to the main west entry and to employee entrances on the north and side sides of the building.
Just waiting for these to be sidestepped or confounded in some simple and unexpected way.
A single AA or AAA battery would be an ideal low-cost power source for a small AVR-based project, but unfortunately they only provide 1.2 to 1.5V, and even the low-voltage versions of the AVR chips need at least a 1.8V supply.
The solution is to use a simple voltage-doubler circuit to step up the voltage. The voltage doubler uses an oscillator to charge up two capacitors through diodes. The voltages across the capacitors are effectively put in series, creating double the supply voltage.