Welcome to RPs Electronics Workshop. My name is Ralph and I’ll be you host for this series of blog posts and videos. My fascination for electronics started at an early age and often ended with the destruction of various family electrical devices. Luckily my folks deemed the shocks and burns to be punishment enough and never tried to make me
Hey everybody, Ralph here. So, I’m thinkin’ about a project that uses segmented displays. But the ones you get from the store are either old fashioned or way too complicated. See, most of them take 1 input per segment plus either a common ground or power. They also produce only 1 color. Now, they come in a lot of colors
This is the list of software that I use. I would say that the Arduino IDE is the only one that doesn’t really have an alternative and I could be wrong about that. The rest you can find alternatives to if you don’t care for how any of the ones I have listed work. That’s how I decided on these
Tools The following is an incomplete list of tools and parts that you will want to have handy while working on projects. I say incomplete because there will always be something else you will want to have. Always. Screw and nut drivers of various shapes and sizes. The most common are flat head, Philips, Torx, Allen, and standard and metric