{"id":290,"date":"2012-08-28T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2012-08-28T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:33:59","slug":"starting-school-and-fixing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Starting School and Fixing Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-291\" title=\"IMG_1089\" src=\"http:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1089-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1089-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_1089-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, another semester has arrived. I&#8217;m pretty excited for my digital circuits lab because I finally get to figure out how to use FPGAs. To be honest, at this point, I don&#8217;t know much about them but hear EEs talking constantly about FPGAs and I&#8217;d love to have something intelligent to say.<\/p>\n<p>I also accomplished a big feat this week. My old TI-89 calculator from high school (10+ years old) died. I ordered a nice set of torx screwdrivers and dissected the thing. In the process, I managed to spill all the buttons everywhere. I took everything apart, cleaned out the dust, prodded and poked at some parts and then decided to put it back together so I didn&#8217;t lose any parts. Lo and behold, it worked! I&#8217;m pretty sure my genius engineering was just getting rid of the dust, but hey, I fixed something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, another semester has arrived. I&#8217;m pretty excited for my digital circuits lab because I finally get to figure out how to use FPGAs. To be honest, at this point, I don&#8217;t know much about them but hear EEs talking constantly about FPGAs and I&#8217;d love to have something intelligent to say. I also accomplished &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting School and Fixing Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}