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Strawberry Custard Pie
A Quick Dessert Project for a Guest Visit
3 hrs ago • Vinnie Moscaritolo
I can smell you
Perfume once smelled like people. Now it smells like soap.
7 hrs ago • Vinnie Moscaritolo
The Illusion of AI Wisdom
Why LLMs Failed Me Debugging a Design and What That Says About Their Limits
Mar 10 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
Here comes the Sun
How My Chicken Coop Controller Calculates Sunrise and Sunset
Mar 6 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
A Better Automatic Chicken Coop Door
From Backyard Chickens to 100-Bird Pasture Rotation: Why I Scrapped Two Earlier Controllers and Built a Purpose-Built Ultra-Low-Power Coop Door from…
Mar 5 • Vinnie Moscaritolo

January 2026

avrdude: The Debugging Tool You Didn’t Know You Had
Your Hidden Microscope for AVR Chips
Jan 28 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
Chasing Raspberry Pi Power Management
Lessons Learned Building a Power Switch with Deep Sleep and Wake Control
Jan 26 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
Parts that don't suck: part 3
Marine-grade electrical parts built to survive vibration, weather, and bad ideas.
Jan 25 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
Parts that don't suck: part 2
Power Supplies and Voltage regulators
Jan 25 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
Parts that don't suck: part 1
Making good connections.
Jan 24 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
How did you make that?
What actually happens between an idea and a working circuit board
Jan 23 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 6
Progress report - the Pixel 9 Pro
Jan 21 • Vinnie Moscaritolo
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