Broken Link Check for Free Class Notes Online

I just ran several site scans and also included all the external links my site points to using the new version of Xenu Link Checker. I have one page on my AM Transmission home work assignment with a missing graphic, and sense I’m on the road I don’t have access to the hard copy so this will have to wait until I get back east to make this correction.

There are also a few redirected links I need to look over, the list is a bit longer then I want so that’s now on my To Do List. The current stats are: 2004 total URLs of which 99.85% are active, 1135 internal URLs of which 552 are text, and 581 are image files, with a few stragglers.

Carnival Dream Waterslide Video

Almost forgot. A few weeks back I did the sixteen day Carnival Dream Transatlantic cruise from Italy to New York City in the U.S. Fun trip and I grabbed a little video on their new Drainpipe waterslide. I look like a compete dork, but I’m having a blast so that’s all that matters, right. Well enjoy the video, I’m back to coding. Best All. -Brian

Back in Full Swing

There’s been a lot going on the last few months sense my last consulting project; mostly travel and some well deserved fun. A little clear my head time, conferences, and best of all, a lot of time to focus on my sites, especially the FreeClassNotesOnline.com project. I just finished up the Tony Robbins Date w/ Destiny conference in Scottsdale Arizona earlier this week; which was incredible and very useful in seeing what values and rules drove my actions, and tweaking them to better align with my overall objective, that’s to provide good and useful content to all of you. Now that I’m back in the swing of things again, I'll be out in Tucson Arizona through years end (unless anything comes up), so keep posted for a lot more site updates and news items I’ll post here. Cheers all. -Brian

Attending Date with Destiny this Week

Greetings all. I’ll be at the Tony Robbins, Date with Destiny course this coming week in Scottsdale Arizona so there will be no updates for the next 7 to 10 days. I’m totally excited I can barely contain myself; I know it’s going to be Fantastic. Until next week all, have a great one and I’ll be sure to touch base once I jump back into working the site. Cheers all. -Brian

The Miller Effect and Programming Microcontrollers

Over the last few days I’ve made more additions to the site, Microcontrollers Lab course; specifically the first lab experiment, EPLD and EPROM Programming. This lab centers around the topic of programming, Erasable Programmable Logic Devices, and Electrically Programmable Read-Only Memory devices. In addition, I have also added a section on Analog and Semiconductor devices, examining the electrical capacitance effect know as the Miller Effect and the Capacitance Input.

Phase Lock Loop Page Graphics Added

This weekend I added two additional pages to the phase lock loop, reverse engineered integrated circuit experiment, specifically two of the graphic files. I’m also continuing my efforts to correct many of the pages I had header issues with as denoted in a previous blog post. I also noticed (just now as I'm making this post) there is a slight paragraph formatting issue with the lower text on these pages, which I'll have to trace down... hmmm. Anyway, the new pages I just added are:

Phase Detector VCO Feedback Signal Graph
LM565 PLL Implemented using Discrete Devices

Homework Solutions for SATCOM, Solar and Battery Power

Three more homework problems and solutions added to the Satellite Communication class dealing with satellite power issues, and a remaining orbit geometry problem I left out in an earlier post. Spacecraft battery power demands are examined, also a problem looking at the spinner satellite designs solar power efficiency has been provided. These items are located at:

HW 12 - Solar Power
HW 13 - Orbital Geometry
HW 14 - Battery Capacity

Please note, this blog entry is a reprint from my old blog.