A cove in MDO state park. I visit here quite often but this picture was taken 3 or 4 weeks ago. If you find yourself near San Luis Obispo, visit this park for some excellent rocky coastline. Steepshot

This is a remote-ish spot in the Colorado desert of far east San Diego county in California. I took this on the way to hiking over that ridge with some friends. Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

Here is one of my few pictures that isn't just documenting what a certain place looks like. This cactus is currently growing above the famous Wave formation in extreme north Arizona. Steepshot | IPFS |

This view marks the start of the Big Sur region of the central California coast. The next 100 miles of coastline is steep cliffs falling into the ocean like this. Sadly last winter's storms wiped out the

View of two volcanic mounds in western San Luis Obispo county near Morro Bay. I took this picture a few days ago from the top of a nearby hill. We just got some rain so the planets are finally growing

Last week I found a coupon for a free multimeter at Harbor Freight. If you don't already know, a multimeter is one of the most basic electrical tools, and lets you measure voltage, current, and resistance,

Today at my local dollar store I noticed decent-looking wireless keyboards for sale for $2 each. This is, I assume, because they come in pink cases and due to the weird stigma around this arbitrary color,

This photograph was taken in the Coyote Buttes wilderness on the border of Utah and Arizona The area is very remote and only legally accessible via permit. Various sandstone layers form dramatic formations

This view is taken from a cliff in the mountains of southern Utah. Numerous breaks like this line the side of the plateau. Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

I picked up a 433 MHz radio transmitter/receiver pair for less than a dollar awhile back and have finally gotten around to using them. I'm planning on using them to make remote temperature beacons that

I took this picture several weeks ago. This beach is pinned against the Irish Hills range just south of the town of Los Osos. You can see a thin fog climbing the cliff in the distance. Steepshot | IPFS

I took this picture about a month ago from the top of Cuesta ridge, a ~2500 ft high ridge just north of San Luis Obispo. The valley contains volcanic peaks like Bishop's peak (left), Hollister peak (4th

This was taken from Brianhead peak near Cedar City, Utah around new years. The lack of snow or rain made the road accessible this late into the winter. Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

I'm getting into a little more obscure components now, but I think that those interested in electronics will find this interesting. The Photodiode (along with the corresponding Phototransistor) are

I took this view from a remote ridge in the desert near the Mexican border, about 50 miles east of San Diego. In the canyon a few thousand feet below is the famous Goat Canyon train trestle. Visible are

Trying out Steepshot after seeing @keephy's post on it. This is Morro Rock, a 550 foot tall volcanic peak that juts out of a beach in central California. Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

I've decided to (destructively) tear down a radio transmitter that I've had sitting in a drawer for several months. This device transmits on the FM radio band. You can plug it into a phone's headphone

You've probably seen a lot of motion detectors without realizing it. They typically look like small plastic cylinders or hemispheres, and are used to control things like bathroom lights, porch lights,

I'd like to share a tiny radio transmitter I made from an Arduino Uno board. If you haven't heard of them, the Uno is a cheap, easy to use microcontroller board. It's essentially a tiny, very low memory

One of the simplest types of transistors is the now somewhat obsolete Unijunction Transistor, or UJT. Invented in 1953, the UJT acts a electrical switch. It can be used similar to a relay, but in an all