Entry Level Position!

Yeah, right. It’s hard to find a position when this is what most ‘entry level’ qualification forms look like: 

This listing was on the company’s very own site under the ‘new graduate’ filter. How many graduates actually have 3 years experience in GPU verification? Maybe with an MS or Ph.D…

All I want is a role where I can solve problems for a living. That’s why I took on engineering in the first place, right? Not to wait tables with a BSCE, surely? Let me in with your company and I’ll learn whatever skillset you need to get the job done. Some direction would be nice.

We need a Mouser equivalent in ATX. I’m tired of paying $2.13 for an electrolytic capacitor at Fry’s… I feel like all I’m paying for is the cardboard packaging anyway. Shipping costs are sky high for the price of components from SparkFun, too.

Raspberry Pi Light Strings

Synopsis: A Pi Zero controlled string of LED lights which wrap around the perimeter of my kitchen. The idea is to write a couple color patterns as well as a few blinking incantations (kind of like with the Infinity Mirror). Maybe a remote application can be written to change color codes remotely.

Things to accomplish:

-Chaining LED strings

-SSH’ing into the Pi Zero

-RGB control app dev

-Mounting strings/Pi around kitchen cabinets/ceiling

Update: I think it’ll be more proactive to use a Bluetooth connection than to try shelling in every single command. I’m not sure what the connection/drop rate of a shell versus a BT connection is, either.

First Post

Finally, a place to jot down some ideas. I’ve got a few LED related notions coming soon. Keep in touch for some fun stuff