Simon Monk @simonmonk2.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I found this very interesting. hbr.org/2021/05/what... #chinahbr.orgWhat the West Gets Wrong About ChinaMany people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built on the same foundations as in the West. The auth... 011
Simon Monk @simonmonk2.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I've just published part 2 of my blog series on making an accessible FM radio. This post concentrates on a PCB coil antenna. www.doctormonk.com/2025/04/acce...doctormonk.comAccessible FM Radio Case Study - Part 2 - PCB Antenna[Part 1] [ Code and Design Files ] In the first part of this series, I looked at the overall requirements for the project. A key one of the... 000
Simon Monk @simonmonk2.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I've written a Python interface to this low-cost sprectrum analyser. github.com/simonmonk/rf... 010
Simon Monk @simonmonk2.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Part 1 of a blog post out now, describing a work in progress, designing an accessible FM radio. www.blogger.com/blog/posts/5... Key requirement - no eye stabbing antenna. I'm not going down the Internet Radio route. 000
Reposted by Simon MonkBlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 01/04/2025You can read more about smolBASIC here: github.com/blogmywiki/s...github.comGitHub - blogmywiki/smolBASICContribute to blogmywiki/smolBASIC development by creating an account on GitHub. 121
Simon Monk @simonmonk2.bsky.social · 24/03/2025You can now buy our LED Arc from our friends at PiHut in the UK. Instructions, buy-links and datasheet here: monkmakes.com/led_arc.html Rings for use with @microbit_edu and pins for other boards. 020
Reposted by Simon MonkO'Reilly @oreilly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025As @timoreilly.bsky.social writes, #AI may be the end of #programming as we know it, but it is not the end of programming. It's a new beginning. We’ll be designing and building new kinds of software, software that we couldn't have imagined a few years ago. www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en...oreilly.comThe End of Programming as We Know It 052
Reposted by Simon MonkTomb💀Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 05/02/2025this is the uA702, the first commercial analog chip (an op-amp). it was designed by the legendary Bob Widlar and went on the market in 1964 for $300 each. that's $2500 adjusting for inflation! 719030
Reposted by Simon MonkFootleg @drfootleg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I got my 3 body problem simulation running on the RP2350. So much better with a floating point unit and faster CPU. Running on a #Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 and their 2.8” display pack. I may have to buy a #Presto now! #Pico2 #RaspberryPi 1384
Simon Monk @simonmonk2.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Very interesting. TLDR use 1u MLCC decoupling caps instead of 100n. codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/p...codeinsecurity.wordpress.comProper decoupling practices, and why you should leave 100nF behindEver wondered why 100nF is a go-to value for decoupling capacitors? This number has pervaded in datasheets and electronics advice going back to the 1980s, and is still widely present in the datashe… 021
Simon Monk @simonmonk2.bsky.social · 12/01/2025A 3 year old I know and love has started to tell, people whose conversation she's bored with, to 'skip' in the same way I talk to Spotify on my smart speaker! I'm now speaking respectfully to smart speakers -- she doesn't know they are not sentient. 121
