Bits and bites for the end of February

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It's time for our bi-weekly (semi-weekly?) roundup of links and pointers. Let's get right to it!

We found ourselves needing to quickly graph serial output from a device (once again), and as usual we reach for?Serial Oscilloscope. For Mac and Linux there's?Serial Studio?which we find a bit more tricky to use, but gets the job done. All you need is well-formatted comma separated output from your device's serial port, and you can get right to plotting in real-time.

We really like?The True Story of Hello World, a?ground up exploration of the life cycle of code from compiling and linking to loading and running. It's a quick read and covers a surprising amount in just a few pages. Worth a look for an intro or as a refresher.

Looking for resources on getting into electronics or electrical engineering? We've compiled a list of our favorites:

• Make: Electronics?by Charles Platt is a good getting-started-with electronics book.
• Forest Mims books?are classic, they tend to have a solution for a given problem
• The Art of Electronics?is thorough but big. The labs are useful, sometimes better to go through those than worry about understanding all the pieces in the chapter.
• Contextual Electronics?is a good place for electronics education
• Crash Course Electronics and PCB Design | Udemy
• Free textbook for Electrical Engineering & Electronics
• Combinational Logic Circuits using Logic Gates

Have we missed anything good? Have other favorites??Let us know!

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