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SUMMARY:🔄 Solder & Code: Pico Power Cycler
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you’ll build a gadget that turns power on and off for a USB-powered device. Useful for rebooting solar-powered radios\, making decorations blink\, etc. No experience with soldering or programming required! \nYou’ll need to buy a kit for $11.50 to complete this project. Here’s what it contains: \n– Pi Pico board with USB-C port\n– IRFZ44N MOSFET transistor\n– 22 AWG stranded wire pair (4″)\n– USB-A port board\n– twist tie wire (3″)\n– 1″ heat shrink tubing (3″)\n– 1/12″ heat shrink tubing (0.5″) \nInstructions \nExample code \nRegister\nRegistration for this event is now closed. Sorry. \nHere's a link to future workshops in this series!
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SUMMARY:👁️ Intelligence History Reading Group: 'The Achilles Trap' by Steve Coll
DESCRIPTION:This month we’re readingThe Achilles Trap Saddam Hussein\, the United States and the Middle East\, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll \n🎧 Get the audiobook on Libro.fm \nThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people\, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America’s disastrous war with Iraq and\, for the first time\, details America’s fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous\, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. \nBeginning with Saddam’s rise to power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons programme\, Steve Coll traces Saddam’s motives through understanding his inner circle. He brings to life the diplomats\, scientists\, family members and generals who had no choice but to defer to their leader – a leader directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis\, as well as the torture or imprisonment of many more. This was a man whose reasoning was impossible to reduce to a simple explanation\, and the CIA and successive presidential administrations failed to grasp critical nuances in his paranoia\, resentments and inconsistencies – even when the stakes were incredibly high. \nUsing unpublished and underreported sources\, interviews with surviving participants\, and Saddam’s own transcripts and audio files\, The Achilles Trap is a remarkable picture of a dictator who was convinced the world was out to get him and acted accordingly. A work of great historical significance\, it is the definitive account of how corruptions of power\, lies of diplomacy and vanity – on both sides – led to avoidable errors of statecraft: ones that would enact immeasurable human suffering and forever change our political landscape.
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