Tonight was the last workout before the kyu test. It’s been a long road for everyone… six months since the last kyu test. The mood in the dojo tonight was pretty nervous. We have a large batch of upper rank students testing for their purple or brown belts and those tests are not easy. Confidence […]

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Despite the fact that I own a Cold Heat Soldering Tool, I was made painfully aware that I don’t know very much about actually wiring electronic components together. The only experience I have at doing anything of this nature is messing with a programmable circuitboard during my Computer Architecture masters course at WIU. The “technique” […]

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