Simon Monk
@simonmonk2.bsky.social
Author of tech books and product designer for MonkMakes. https://simonmonk.org
I found this very interesting. hbr.org/2021/05/what... #china
What the West Gets Wrong About China
Many people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built on the same foundations as in the West. The auth...
hbr.org
May 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I found this very interesting. hbr.org/2021/05/what... #china
I've just published part 2 of my blog series on making an accessible FM radio. This post concentrates on a PCB coil antenna. www.doctormonk.com/2025/04/acce...
Accessible FM Radio Case Study - Part 2 - PCB Antenna
[Part 1] [ Code and Design Files ] In the first part of this series, I looked at the overall requirements for the project. A key one of the...
www.doctormonk.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I've just published part 2 of my blog series on making an accessible FM radio. This post concentrates on a PCB coil antenna. www.doctormonk.com/2025/04/acce...
I've written a Python interface to this low-cost sprectrum analyser. github.com/simonmonk/rf...
April 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I've written a Python interface to this low-cost sprectrum analyser. github.com/simonmonk/rf...
Part 1 of a blog post out now, describing a work in progress, designing an accessible FM radio. www.blogger.com/blog/posts/5... Key requirement - no eye stabbing antenna. I'm not going down the Internet Radio route.
April 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Part 1 of a blog post out now, describing a work in progress, designing an accessible FM radio. www.blogger.com/blog/posts/5... Key requirement - no eye stabbing antenna. I'm not going down the Internet Radio route.
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You can read more about smolBASIC here: github.com/blogmywiki/s...
GitHub - blogmywiki/smolBASIC
Contribute to blogmywiki/smolBASIC development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
You can read more about smolBASIC here: github.com/blogmywiki/s...
You can now buy our LED Arc from our friends at PiHut in the UK. Instructions, buy-links and datasheet here: monkmakes.com/led_arc.html Rings for use with @microbit_edu and pins for other boards.
March 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
You can now buy our LED Arc from our friends at PiHut in the UK. Instructions, buy-links and datasheet here: monkmakes.com/led_arc.html Rings for use with @microbit_edu and pins for other boards.
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As @timoreilly.bsky.social writes, #AI may be the end of #programming as we know it, but it is not the end of programming. It's a new beginning. We’ll be designing and building new kinds of software, software that we couldn't have imagined a few years ago. www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en...
The End of Programming as We Know It
www.oreilly.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As @timoreilly.bsky.social writes, #AI may be the end of #programming as we know it, but it is not the end of programming. It's a new beginning. We’ll be designing and building new kinds of software, software that we couldn't have imagined a few years ago. www.oreilly.com/radar/the-en...
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this is the uA702, the first commercial analog chip (an op-amp). it was designed by the legendary Bob Widlar and went on the market in 1964 for $300 each. that's $2500 adjusting for inflation!
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
this is the uA702, the first commercial analog chip (an op-amp). it was designed by the legendary Bob Widlar and went on the market in 1964 for $300 each. that's $2500 adjusting for inflation!
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I got my 3 body problem simulation running on the RP2350. So much better with a floating point unit and faster CPU. Running on a #Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 and their 2.8” display pack. I may have to buy a #Presto now! #Pico2 #RaspberryPi
January 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I got my 3 body problem simulation running on the RP2350. So much better with a floating point unit and faster CPU. Running on a #Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 and their 2.8” display pack. I may have to buy a #Presto now! #Pico2 #RaspberryPi
Very interesting. TLDR use 1u MLCC decoupling caps instead of 100n. codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/p...
Proper decoupling practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind
Ever wondered why 100nF is a go-to value for decoupling capacitors? This number has pervaded in datasheets and electronics advice going back to the 1980s, and is still widely present in the datashe…
codeinsecurity.wordpress.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Very interesting. TLDR use 1u MLCC decoupling caps instead of 100n. codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/p...
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Just in case you missed it.
My review of the new $120 Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is live on Tom's Hardware. We've got a true desktop experience here, but the extra RAM is best used for AI / machine learning and containers like Docker. https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-16gb-review
January 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just in case you missed it.
A 3 year old I know and love has started to tell, people whose conversation she's bored with, to 'skip' in the same way I talk to Spotify on my smart speaker! I'm now speaking respectfully to smart speakers -- she doesn't know they are not sentient.
January 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
A 3 year old I know and love has started to tell, people whose conversation she's bored with, to 'skip' in the same way I talk to Spotify on my smart speaker! I'm now speaking respectfully to smart speakers -- she doesn't know they are not sentient.