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100 Days Of STEM

Log book - Week 1

Day 1: 21 June 2021

Today:

  • Practised soldering SMD components
  • Watched @drfootleg talk about how he designed and prototyped his PCBs.

Thoughts: Paragraph or two

Key concepts:

  1. KiCad seems very cable of being used to design schematics and PCBs
  2. Always double if not triple check the foot print sizes of pads and components
  3. I can hand solder 0603 components!

Links:

  1. @drfootleg session

Day 2: 22 June 2021

Today:

  • Built the Function Generator kit.
  • Managed to figure out the basics of my Oscilloscope.
  • Started reviewing my course notes from "Master the Fundamentals of Math" by Krista King

Thoughts: Doing pretty well so far.

Key concepts:

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Links:

  1. Krista King Course

Day 3: 23 June 2021

Today:

  • Soldered headers on 3 Raspberry Pi Picos
  • Tested Pimoroni Pico Explorer and Pico Display pack
  • Also tested Cytron Maker Pi
  • Finished reviewing my previous notes as well as finish the Ratio and Proportions section of "Master the Fundamentals of Math" by Krista King

Thoughts: Was one of those rare days were everything just went super well.

Key concepts:

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Day 4: 24 June 2021

Today:

  • Finished the Exponents section of "Master the Fundamentals of Math" by Krista King
  • Soldered headers and Captain Resetti onto another Pico.

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Day 5: 25 June 2021

Today:

  • Finished the Radicals section of "Master the Fundamentals of Math" by Krista King

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Day 6: 26 June 2021

Today:

  • Started the Scientific Notation section of "Master the Fundamentals of Math" by Krista King

Thoughts: I am almost finished with a course I started 2 years ago and then lost momentum on

Key concepts:

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Day 7: 27 June 2021

Today:

Week 1 complete!

  • Completed "Master the Fundamentals of Math" by Krista King.

Thoughts: I am really happy to have finished a course I started 2.5 years ago while living in the temporary accomodation after the neighbour burned our house down and I was unemployed. Managed to work through about 60% of the course back then but then life got in the way.

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