Puzzling over why the new chip wasn't registering button presses derailed me for three weeks. I ran a bunch...
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Autodidact Ambitions 14 – A Plan and a Goal
As stated back at the beginning, the Clock was only a starter project. Ultimately, I had an ill-defined end...
Autodidact Ambitions 13 – Upgrade SNAFU
I had procrastinated actually doing this article because I wanted to just march in triumphantly having...
Autodidact Ambitions 12 – Is it Time
In part 10 I desined a few daughterboards to kludge a fix to my clock which was not keeping correct time. I...
Autodidact Ambitions 11 – Super Serial
My investigations into why the clock won't keep time await new parts, so I'm going to take a detour while I...
Autodidact Ambitions 10 – Daughterboards
I ended out Article 9 with a tease of a redesign of the main circuit board for the clock I've been working on...
Autodidact Ambitions 9 – Rectification
When I left off, I'd spent hours dissecting the bevy of errors I'd made in designing and building a digital...
Autodidact Ambitions 8 – Autopsy of a Failure
I'd wrapped up the 7th article in this serious on an optimistic note. I had just patted myself on the back...
Autodidact Ambitions 7 – Taking It Up a Notch
In writing the previous six articles about designing and building a digital clock, I found some software bugs...
Autodidact Ambitions 6 – Doubling Down on the Deep Dive
When the dive into the microcontroller code for my clock turned into a whopper of an article, I had to split...