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Weeklog for Week 44: October 28 to November 03

Progress

This is a vacation week so I worked a lot on my secondary projects.

TWIL

There are single-chip through-hole voltage regulators that will take a wide range of input voltages and give you a defined output voltage. Like the 7805 (-> 5V, about 10ct/piece) or the 7803 (-> 3V, can't find cheaply) or the AMS1117 (-> 3V, < 10ct) or the LM3671 or the LTC3388 or the LD1117, and now I could add these to my circuits but I'm quite overwhelmed with the choices.
My ESP boards seem to use an AMS1117, and they are cheap, so yeah, I guess that'll be it.

Articles

Libraries, programming, etc

Books

  • The Fault in our Stars by John Greene: This book is about Having Cancer and Being A Teenager. It is also about Getting Cancer, Living With Cancer and Dieing From Cancer. Which is a little bit funny, because one thing the protagonist laments is that when you are Having Cancer, your life is being dominated by Having Cancer and she would just like to have one normal day. At one point in my life I was Being A Teenager but I have never been Having Cancer. So the book did not resonate with my very much (even though it is very well-written). I don't even know what I expected, since I knew the book was about Having Cancer when I started reading it, so I don't know? I guess I just wanted to know how John Greene writes books. The only thing that really annoys me is that the book has a proper ending; after they've signaled that it would be the coolest thing in the world to have a cancer-death ending in the middle of a sentence, there's a boring normal regular ending with closure and everything. Bah!

Games

  • Walkabout Minigolf
  • Astroneer

Backlog

  • Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles (from waitlist)
  • STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor (from waitlist)

Recipes

  • Quarkbällchen
  • Toast Hawaii
  • Pfannkuchen

Other media

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