Blogs, Books and Podcasts (technically listening, I know)
What I'm Reading 2020-05-19 Building

Blogs, Books and Podcasts (technically listening, I know)
One aspect of reviving the XMods parts that I have involves figuring out what I need to fix to get the shorter chassis running again.
I decided to go for the full-break method of investigating the electronics, and while it worked out well to start, it's looking iffy going forward.
My background in electrical engineering involves the first 4 chapters of an electronics textbook I read on my phone when I had internet connection and power in town while hiking the Appalachian Trail. What can I figure out about how the circuit board works for the quadcopter?
Mechanically, it's in shambles. What's left in the rubble? I dive into the electronics to figure it out.
For a lot of my life, the robots I worked with were pretty close to what CS wants from them: a stream of sensor data in, nicely organized in a common format across all sensors. To make things happen, I stream some outputs in another selection of formats. The sensor …