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Category: Uncategorized

Various subjects that don’t fit other categories

The Squirrel and Marketing

By Frank Posted on January 9, 2026 Posted in Clockwork, Marketing, Me, Uncategorized Tagged with business, marketing, squirrel

I have been acquainted with the squirrel for a long time. In the 1960s I am fairly sure it once ate my homework. Some of my friends who have been diagnosed with ADHD, ADD or are “on the spectrum” have …

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Happy New Year 2026!

By Frank Posted on January 5, 2026 Posted in Life, Me, Uncategorized Tagged with marketing, New Year planning, new years
Happy New Year 2026!

The past year has been a mixed bag… it started well, but I kind of got sidetracked by yet another new project. This one was not exactly chosen by me, instead I ended up with a bunch of used equipment …

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Site Update, Random Stuff

By Frank Posted on July 30, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with random

Hi Ladies and Gents, Boys and Girls… This site was started as a method of providing industrial automation content to co-workers and friends, then to the public. It was started in January 2011, before I published my first book, and …

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Serial Communications

By Frank Posted on September 4, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with Communications

Serial communications are still used extensively in automation despite the lack of serial ports on most computers. It used to be about the only way you could connect to and program controllers, whether PLC, DCS or others. From the Primer: …

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