More than a decade ago I was starting out with microcontrollers, and that was the first programmer I built from scavenged parts. He also wrote a book (PDF available on site) for absolute beginners to microcontrollers that was very helpful. The man is a famous polymath, and it was good to run across his site again.
This is certainly a nice surprise. I took my first CS course from Dr. Covington. I remember on the first day of class he went through the roll of 70+ students telling almost everyone the linguistic origin and meanings of their names.
He has many interests and seems to be an expert in nearly all of them. I consider him to be the smartest person I've ever met. Thanks for posting this.
When I was in high school, he invited us over to talk about technology and to show us some of his works in progress. My tiny experience with 6809 assembly...
Not only an accomplished engineer, but a great educator and
kind person.
More than a decade ago I was starting out with microcontrollers, and that was the first programmer I built from scavenged parts. He also wrote a book (PDF available on site) for absolute beginners to microcontrollers that was very helpful. The man is a famous polymath, and it was good to run across his site again.