Silent Q

Azog's little slice of the world. Whee.

HP 59309A lab clock

| June 15, 2009

I couldn’t resist picking this up: An HP 59309A lab clock. Geez, could they have found any more microscopic LED displays? I don’t have a whole lot of information, can’t find service / user manuals for it, but it appears to be a decently stable lab clock with an HP-IB interface: Of course, I don’t [...]

Controlling an HD44780 LCD with an AVR

| June 11, 2009

I’ve deleted some old posts, because some of them were futile, and the others were random. I’m going to be presumptuous and try to combine the info into a single, hopefully coherent, post. Presumptuous, because this is a “tutorial style” post, whereas I myself should be a reader of such tutorials, rather than an originator.

Google celebrates Tetris rather than D-Day

| June 6, 2009

Today is June 6, 2009, the 65th anniversary of D-Day. But rather than even acknowledge it, Google would rather celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tetris: Thanks for totally disrepecting American, Canadian, British, Polish,  and every other country that participated in D-Day.