The New Hotness

Two recent postings were mentioned on blogs with much higher readership than mine, which provides an opportunity to measure the impulse response of the blog to an external simulus.

The first peak comes from the Make magazine blog: they liked the trick of holding screws in slit nuts for trimming and finishing.

The second is from hackaday.com: they loved the Alpha-Geek Clock, although they linked to the inside circuitry.

It looks like an external blog mention is good for 50 to 60 hours of fame. After that, the search engines take over again.

You can tell nearly everybody arrives here from search engines, because the monthly view increases slightly more than linearly with the number of posts.

I’d love to believe that’s the start of exponential growth, but that’s just not going to happen!

Speaking of search engines, here are the top terms…

Search Terms
All Time
Search	Views
arduino pwm frequency	235
milling	223
arduino pwm	212
transformer model	99
bellows	94
staghorn beetle	87
triple alert redemption	83
chain catcher	81
sherline	79
arduino command line	79
arduino fast pwm	66
cold solder joint	66
sherline mill	56
hd44780 arduino	50
cold solder	50
cold solder joints	47
sherline projects	46
magnetizer	44
avid rollamajig	43
triple alert	43

Obviously, Arduino, electronics, and machine-shop topics are hot.

Who would have imagined, however, that so many people search the Internet to find pix of staghorn beetles? As of right now, though, Google gives my post two of the four image results and puts it on the first page. Evidently I give good writeup. Now, if only I were selling something, huh?

The most-viewed pages…

Top Posts
All Time
Title	Views
Alpha-Geek Clock	1836
Changing the Arduino PWM Frequency	1324
Arduino Command Line Programming: Avrdud	931
Sherline Mill Counterweight Gantry	928
Finding Transformer Pi Model Parameters	851
Arduino Hardware-assisted SPI: Synchrono	850
Arduino Fast PWM: Faster	740
Dell GX270 Auto-On Power Setting	659
Arduino LiquidCrystal Library vs Old HD4	623
Cold & Fractured Solder Joints	493
Kubuntu Remote Desktop via SSH Tunnel	473
Sunglasses Repair: Half a Hinge Is Bette	420
Sherline Bellows Covers The Cheap Way	380
Laser Alignment for the Sherline Mill	364
Recumbent Bicycle Amateur Radio Antenna	341
Arduino Push-Pull PWM	336
Tektronix 492 Spectrum Analyzer Backplan	335
Experian Triple-Alert Signup: FAIL	312
Holding Machine Screws for Trimming	309
Silver-soldered Bandsaw Blade Joint	307

The Alpha-Geek Clock isn’t representative, due to the sudden peak that slapped it to the top of the list. It’s nice to know that folks are finding (and, presumably, using) the tech info that I put together.

A tip o’ the engineer’s cap to the two dozen of you who keep track of goings-on through the RSS feed. These posts are mostly for my own amusement and record-keeping, but I trust you find something useful every now and again.

A Happy New Year to one & all… and keep on building stuff in your shop!