{"id":232,"date":"2008-09-12T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:12","slug":"blogs-blogs-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/blogs-blogs-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs, blogs, blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting electronics\/microcontroller\/hacker themed blogs I&#8217;m reading these days:<\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycresistor.com\/\">NYC Resistor<\/a> &#8211; Definitely the most interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/hackerspaces.org\/wiki\/Hacker_Spaces\">hackerspace<\/a> in the US right now.\u00a0 Updates almost daily.\u00a0 I stand in awe of how prolific these guys\/girls are, it seems like they are pushing the envelope of DIY every week.\u00a0 This blog alone makes me want to move to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=new+york,+new+york&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;z=10&amp;iwloc=addr\">NYC<\/a> sometimes.\u00a0 (Well, them and <a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/\">ITP<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/\">Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories<\/a> &#8211; Evil mad scientist duo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/staticpages\/index.php\/AboutEMSL\">Windell and Lenore<\/a> showed the world what an electronics blog could be &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php?story=lampshade&amp;query=light%2Btent\">100% high quality photography<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php?story=peggy2&amp;query=open%2Bsource\">open source everything<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php?story=bristlebot&amp;query=bristlebot\">unique and captivating projects<\/a> time and time again.\u00a0 Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\">Lada Ada<\/a> they made the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php\/avrtargetboards\">Atmel AVR<\/a> the standard for beginning microcontrollers.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/evilmadscience.com\/\">They sell stuff too.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/\">The Make: Blog<\/a> &#8211; You could pretty much read this one alone and still stay on top of what&#8217;s hot in DIY right now.\u00a0 They usually follow EMSL and NYC Resistor anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>And some new (to me) blogs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dadhacker.com\/blog\/\">DadHacker<\/a> &#8211; This guy wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dadhacker.com\/blog\/?p=987\">Donkey Kong for the Atari<\/a>.\u00a0 This blog has been around for years, lots 8-bit assembly coding stuff which is fascinating.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brepettis.com\/blog\/\">Bre Pettis&#8217; Blog<\/a> &#8211; Bre is on a mission and is stirring up a lot of interest in DIY.\u00a0 He has a <a href=\"http:\/\/brepettis.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/new-time-history-hacker\/\">TV show starting up in a couple weeks<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tilzy.tv\/bre-pettis-leaves-weekend-projects-to-make-things-for-etsy.htm\">His departure from Make<\/a> is still being mourned (by me at least).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/weekend_projects\/\">Weekend Projects<\/a> will never be the same (sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/kipkay.com\/\">Kip<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now.\u00a0 If I missed any good ones, I&#8217;d love to hear about them, leave a comment or <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/contact\/\">contact me<\/a>.\u00a0 You can access all of the blogs I mentioned (and a couple more) from the blogroll to the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some interesting electronics\/microcontroller\/hacker themed blogs I&#8217;m reading these days: My favorites: NYC Resistor &#8211; Definitely the most interesting hackerspace in the US right now.\u00a0 Updates almost daily.\u00a0 I stand in awe of how prolific these guys\/girls are, it seems like they are pushing the envelope of DIY every week.\u00a0 This blog alone makes me want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/blogs-blogs-blogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogs, blogs, blogs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[53,36,501,9,19,502],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-microcontrollers","tag-blogs","tag-diy","tag-electronics","tag-hacking","tag-make","tag-microcontrollers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-3K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":664,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/meggy-jr-an-open-source-rgb-gaming-platform-from-emsl\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":0},"title":"Meggy Jr., An Open Source RGB Gaming Platform from EMSL","author":"Jeff","date":"November 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories just released Meggy Jr., an open source handheld gaming platform that includes cool chunky buttons, support for the Arduino IDE, and an 8x8 RGB LED matrix capable of displaying beautifully pixelated color images. 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At the moment there are forums for: My Wifi Radio project The AVR HV Rescue Shield My Bluetooth Handset Hack The DIY PID Controlled Soldering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books and Resources&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books and Resources","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/books-and-resources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A new forum for each major project on the site!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/forums.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2553,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/eevblog\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":2},"title":"EEVblog &#8211; The Electrical Engineering Video Blog Podcast","author":"Jeff","date":"November 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"David L. 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