This is a new blog for me that will focus on the fun cruft that I do while a graduate student in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Such cruft shall include my DIY electronics projects and tutorials, writing about basic electrical engineering topics aimed at the lower level undergraduates, commentary from a rational, physical scientist about things that claim to be rational and physical, but are not, plus some other stuff that I like.
To answer the inevitable questions:
- Isn’t it lovely in Santa Barbara?
- Yes. It is beautiful here. It is ~70F almost everyday and the skies are clear 95% of the time.
- How can you work in a lab/cleanroom and get things done while it is so beautiful outside?
- I have discovered that I love inventing, tinkering with and building things a lot. Like a lot, a lot. Like, lying in bed awake at night while state diagrams, LED controller plans and post-22nm FET ideas for my thesis float through my head. I also very much enjoy reading and keeping up on the seething mass of the internets as well as hacking my life in the constant pursuit of a better way to do things. Being outside is a great, but I remember the things I build more than I remember the mountains I have climbed.
That is it for now! On to customizing the hell out of this page.
Tags: engineering, graduate school, overview, Santa Barbara
