@bbutcher85 Thanks, Bob. I have heard some of this before, but repetition may help me retain it. I especially appreciate your tradeoffs between regul...

@bbutcher85 Thanks for that. I think that would work, at least in one scenario, similar to Bill's. He had just one servo; looked like an SG90. That c...

Here's my LM2596, mounted on perfboard using "stilts" of 18 AWG wire. I have no idea how other people use it. I am intending to use it to supply the 5...

@bbutcher85 @zander Thanks Ron, Bob, for your answers. I will keep reading, and looking around for good choices. Thanks for the idea on ChatGPT. To g...

@aliarifat - Thanks for that. I will look into boards like that. Still, I think it's worthwhile for me to continue to "struggle" with learning the bas...

I have been working through this demo from 2019. My theory is that if I can get the simpler case working, I'll have an easier time debugging why only ...

@zander @videogame95 - Yes, as Ron notes, I'm AWOL recently, not posting, but looking in when I can. I've subscribed to this topic, so I see the updat...

@videogame95 - Howdy, thanks for the message. As @DaveE and @zander say, an assortment pack of perfboard should work fine, aliexpress or amazon. They ...

@zander Hey Ron, Ah, I don't remember the exact context of my remark, but I should set the record straight. As far as orders received, my experience i...

@zander Thanks for that note, especially on clarity of reference to various operating modes. Yes, I did program mine, via FTDI, with the 3.3V jumper. ...

@davee Thanks for that, Dave. Good advice on checking the availability of libraries. I would end up doing that one way or another, so I might as well ...

@robotbuilder @zander That's a decent definition. I think that's what people expect when they think about the tradeoff between a barebones editor an...

@zander Hey Ron, excellent question. Early on in my programming career, on S100, Rolm/DG systems, later VAX, we had no such things as integrated envi...