2021-11-11
It usually starts with a really weirdkinky fetish, and this time is no different. For some reason or another I wanted a really really solid alpha-unit of a fence. After doing some slight maths followed by even slighter maths assigning the cost I realized that I was perfectly a-ok with a beta-unit of a fence. This is of course still heads and shoulders above the omega-non-unit that is a standard stick-in-the-mud fence. As was demonstrated Read more…
2018-12-04
So anyone that has had boards manufactured by Elecrow (https://www.elecrow.com/) knows what that picture means – the stuff is in the mail. For those that do not partake in hobbies that involve custom fabrication by Chinese firms, every time Elecrow completes an order, they email you a picture of it before sending it out. I am exited. This is the first four layer board I have done and this is the first time I have Read more…
2018-07-28
Low level fault or fault low level NOTE: I feel cheated by this “new Google Sites”. When they rope-a-doped me into converting the site they failed to mention that a) this is a one way journey and b) that this stupid “new Google Sites” lacks basic formatting features like subscript and superscript. I now know how Nancy Kerrigan felt. Seriously, my only extra formatting option is “strike through”. All of the V8, I8, etc below Read more…
2017-07-31
I’ve made a huge mistake While waiting for my boards to come back from fabrication (they should be here tomorrow OMG SQUEEE) I decided to do some software work. Early on in the process I made a slight little design error. I made the piece of the stack that’s gonna live on the Beagle Bone a bit more complicated than it really should be. Naturally, rather than admitting my mistake I plowed forward. At this Read more…
2017-06-24
The turkey has landed The boards have arrived and the lost Digi-key order has been retrieved. The folks where the package was erroneously delivered were kind enough to reach out to me and I picked it up from them. Assembly wasn’t terrible. Almost everything fit perfectly. I must have double-dosed my stupid pills the day I laid out the pads for the fuse holders. Apparently they’re 9mm wide and I, for some reason, allocated 6mm Read more…