{"id":3597,"date":"2011-02-03T01:12:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T07:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:53:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T22:53:45","slug":"my-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/my-secret-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"My secret weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/files\/flickr\/5412188853_25a227f20c.jpg\" alt=\"Secret weapon?\" width=\"374\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist picking this up while I was browsing through the electronics books at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/technicalbooks\">Powell&#8217;s Technical Books<\/a> in Portland last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Chris Gammell and Jeri Ellsworth kicked off the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.555contest.com\">555 Contest<\/a>. \u00a0There&#8217;s still plenty of time to build something and enter!<\/p>\n<p>Inexpensive\u00a0used copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0672219328?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mightyohm-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0672219328\">Jung&#8217;s IC Timer Cookbook<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mightyohm-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0672219328\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> are available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist picking this up while I was browsing through the electronics books at\u00a0Powell&#8217;s Technical Books in Portland last weekend. Last week, Chris Gammell and Jeri Ellsworth kicked off the\u00a0555 Contest. \u00a0There&#8217;s still plenty of time to build something and enter! Inexpensive\u00a0used copies of Jung&#8217;s IC Timer Cookbook are available online.<\/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],"tags":[375,374,132],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-375","tag-555contest","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-W1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1080,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/forrest-mims-engineers-mini-notebooks\/","url_meta":{"origin":3597,"position":0},"title":"Forrest Mims Engineer&#8217;s Mini-Notebooks","author":"Jeff","date":"February 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I previously posted about Forrest M. 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Blank books and pages are here. 65 Piece Ratchet Screwdriver and Tool Bit Set This 65 piece ratcheting screwdriver set is a bit nicer than\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":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/829-00.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/829-00.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/829-00.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/829-00.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2621,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/announcing-the-mightyohm-com-wiki\/","url_meta":{"origin":3597,"position":4},"title":"Announcing the MightyOhm.com Wiki","author":"Jeff","date":"February 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I am pleased to announce that the MightyOhm Wiki is now online and open to the public. 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