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Wiki index

Debian Linux pages

Automation pages

• Reduce Lightning Failures in Transducers
• Mass Flow by square root extraction
• Flow rate using weirs and flumes
• Standard Industrial Signals
• Dead-band hysteresis A quick explanation of dead-band as used in control loops.
• Pressure Transducer Primer
• Sealed Lead Acid Battery Applications
• Temperature controller sequencer Set63rs XMT63 programming - marked up annotated manual.
  

Machining

• Machining
• Machining Trigonometry
  
• Machine Tapers and Chuck keys for tool holders
• CNC LinuxCNC (formerly EMC2 centric Machine control via Linux (LinuxCNC even supports hexapods and nested PID loops via a PC!)
• CNC notes about resolvers scales etc..
  
• Machining CAD CAM
• Wood working
• Drill Bit Conversion Table
• Screw Threads
• 3D printer
• FreeCAD
• Reversal Method How we get rid of error in straightness ..
  
• Lapping, Polishing Grinding
• Wells-Index 801 conversion to LinuxCNC
• Precision Mathews PM-1236T-1 Lathe notes
• G-code Gcode
• Torques for common bolts and screws
  

Electronic Engineering Information

• Sealed Lead Acid Battery Applications The details no one told you about when using gel-cells
• How EPROMS Work A memory guide with lots of details about EPROMs
• How Memory Works A handy guide for the PC enthusiast or technician for understanding PC memory problems
• Logic Families AC, ACT, HC, HCT, LCX, LVX, VCX, VHC, VHCT
• SMT prototyping
• Extreme Soldering
  
• kicad EE cad system - Schematic capture to PCB layout and more. Kicad is the future for PCB CAD - it is GPL!
• eeschema kicad's schematic editor
• Pcbnew
• gerbview Gerber file viewer
• PTC(Positive Temperature Coefficient) thermistors
  

Resistance

• Resistor Types
• Resistor Dividers
• Resistor Codes Including color codes
• Resistivity and temperature coefficient

Circuits

• 555 Delta-Sigma Modulator
• Battery Tab Capacitive Discharge Welder
• Wall-Wart Tracker
• Constant Current Sources
• BJT Bipolar Junction Transistors
• Temperature Compensation
• Zero Gain Amps
• LED-pilot
  

PC Hardware

• ATX Pinout A Table and illustration of the ATX power supply connector.
• Making Your Own Ethernet Cables10Base-T, 100base-T, 1000Base-T and 10GBASE-T reference about TELCO color codes and basic construction of LAN cables.
• Computer Component Standard Standard selection of computer components for reliable PC operation.
• RS232 DB9 pinout RS232 DB9 Pinout and null modem adapter wiring.
• Liquid CPU cooling water cooled computers for low noise
• Video Card Testing

General Engineering Information

• How To Make Inventions
• Hazardous Area Approval Explanations
• How Wings REALLY work
• Pressure Conversion Table with a section on Elevation to Air pressure
• Viscosity
• Fluorescent Tube and Switching Ballast notes Just what does T8 mean?
• Parabolic Aluminized Reflector (PAR) lamps Just what does PAR38 mean?
• Energy density Volumetric and Gravimetric Energy densities of various substances.
• Expands on freezing Materials that expand on freezing.
• Reinforcing Bar sizes Standard ASTM Reinforcing Bar sizes in metric and legacy units
• Solvents
• Paints and Primers
• Moisture lost in treated wood by weight
• Melting point temperatures of things of interest
• Thermal conductivity of things of interest
• Specific Heat of things of interest
• Expansion coefficient of things of interest
• Boiling points of things of interest
  

Optics

• Optic equations and more.
• Stereo Zoom 4 Baush & Lomb Stereo Zoom 4 How to adjust to keep zoom in focus.
• light funnels scientific American 1991 264(3) light funnels.
• Entoptic Perception

Programming Linux software pages

• Debian Linux A list of best packages and related pages for desktop Debian Linux
• Vera - to ssh and setup time server
• Inkscape to Cricut (don't buy one) - also notes on using inscape in metric
  
• Network_boot configure PXE boot and more - also see PXE_boot
• linux accounting A continuing search for a GPL software package to replace QB(QuickBooks).
• IP Subnet Masks
• regex Regular expressions
• HTML - Phones and VoIP
• DNS and reverse delegation
• Windows-box best practices
• Debian_Linux#Putting_Debian_on_... different devices - Galaxy-Tab GT-P3113GR, Winbook TW700 etc
• CSS Cascaded Style Sheets
• android
  
• Digital Photography
  • Photo tagging exif IPTC XMP

Learning Spanish Links

• Bi Lingual computer setups
• General Spanish Lingo notes
• Technical Terms

Other pages

• The purple Dragon
  
• Writings of KPS
  
• Linphone
  
• Lawrence KS Honest Businesses
• Scanning Negatives and Prints
• Waukesha Central Campus 1970
• Guitar strings - carbon - actually -fluorocarbon or Fluoropolymer
• espresso machine links
• Growing Fine Fescue in Kansas
• Uconnect
• Crookes Radiometer
• presbyopia
• Genetic differences and information theory How should we measure and understand genetic differences in a meaningful way?
• Adding refrigerant
• Jack and Jill Just what did Jack and Jill do up on that hill?
• Ockhams Razor Ockham, Ocham, Occam, or Ocham?
• Shower Board as a white Board Shower board, white boards have a couple of problems - here is a solution.
• Product Ideas Some product ideas
• First chord of 'hard days night
• Cardiac Disease, Carbohydrates and Weight Loss
• Type-2 Diabeties
• False Knowledge
• History of Fructose Carbs and weight-loss
• Insulin
• Tests for Preventative Heart Health
• Interventions for Preventative Heart Health
• Lp(a)
• Health effects of different fatty acids
• Low-carb recipes
• Thyroid
• android
• Treo
• Complexity Complexity_junkies.htmlunkies
  

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