Kind: Notes

Measured the potential difference of all the components in a circuit and it adds up to the voltage of the battery. Dropped the resistance in the potentiometer, and the PD in the resistor in the circuit jumped up. Everything still adds up to voltage of battery. I assume it means the resistor is then doing more work? Super cool!
Having loads of fun with Make:Electronics so far.  Have measured the resistance of my tongue, dunked my multimeter probes in a glass of water, and shorted a (1.5v) battery.  Good stuff.
Mastodon web interface has pretty nice keyboard shortcuts. Press ? to see what they are.

That said, at the moment I think I prefer Brutaldon and Tridactyl for keyboard-oriented fediversing. Think I’ve just gone off the idea of toots rolling in unannounced. I find it a bit distracting.

Can anyone recommend either Vim Vixen or Tridactyl Firefox plugins? I used to use Pentadactyl all the time until it went kaput with Firefox Quantum. Hankering to get back to Vim bindings in the browser and both of these extensions look pretty well maintained.

#vim #firefox

What’s are some good intro to electronics projects? Something hands-on that teaches you some basics and you make something fun (and maybe even practical…). Massive bonus points for things that involve buying as little new stuff as possible – ideally you can salvage a bunch of the components and parts you need out of stuff you can buy second hand, or out of broken things.