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James Bowman
Personal blog · excamera.substack.comhardwareprogramming
James Bowman writes Excamera Labs Substack, a personal blog at excamera.substack.com about hardware and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link James Bowman's posts investigating why the ADS1115 ADC is sold at a $2.97 price, including a follow-up part two. The comments only cite and link the posts, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What I'm working on here at Excamera Labs, every Tuesday.
Most-linked posts?
- How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-14
- Can 3 point text be readable?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-17
What Hacker News says?
Followup here: https://excamera.substack.com/p/the-great-ads1115-pricing-my... And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658163
Comment linking /p/the-great-ads1115-pricing-mystery
on “How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?”Submitted How bad can a $2.97 ADC be? as a story · 278 points
HN discussionJames returns with a followup to his earlier article https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462
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