Random update
Has been a while. A list then!
- Work have offered a sort-of desk at a customer site, as an alternative to $EMPLOYER's site in Petone, or continuing camping in the kitchen in town. I'll get to see tomorrow whether it's workable or not - it's actually already allocated to another purpose with a bunch of machines on it, so it's quite possibly no better than the kitchen in the end. If I can't sort out things like monitors and stuff, then there's not much point.
- Got Rock Band 3. It's good. Keytar is a month away :(
- Built v1.3 of the NTP server board. It has problems, I think I'm still ending up with too much solder paste on the board and so the whole thing ends up shorting in odd ways. I also suspect while the electric fry pan works for small boards, it has trouble getting heat into the solder in the middle of the board, as I noticed quite a few bits still in the grey-not-liquid state. So pondering next year getting some better tools; (a) a reflow oven controller and hacking a toaster oven and (b) a hot air rework tool. Both will help make boards good to start with, and give me a better shot at fixing broken ones. Oh, and I should get a logic analyzer. And a pony.
- Was invited to a halloween party of someone else in the building. An interesting experience, since I didn't know anyone at the party (and, only know the person who invited me in the "we share a building entrace" sense) but survived, and it was pretty good. Definitely quite a challange for me anyway.
- umm.. things. Cataclysm soon hooray!
Nothing else much. Seems like quite a short list really.
- Work have offered a sort-of desk at a customer site, as an alternative to $EMPLOYER's site in Petone, or continuing camping in the kitchen in town. I'll get to see tomorrow whether it's workable or not - it's actually already allocated to another purpose with a bunch of machines on it, so it's quite possibly no better than the kitchen in the end. If I can't sort out things like monitors and stuff, then there's not much point.
- Got Rock Band 3. It's good. Keytar is a month away :(
- Built v1.3 of the NTP server board. It has problems, I think I'm still ending up with too much solder paste on the board and so the whole thing ends up shorting in odd ways. I also suspect while the electric fry pan works for small boards, it has trouble getting heat into the solder in the middle of the board, as I noticed quite a few bits still in the grey-not-liquid state. So pondering next year getting some better tools; (a) a reflow oven controller and hacking a toaster oven and (b) a hot air rework tool. Both will help make boards good to start with, and give me a better shot at fixing broken ones. Oh, and I should get a logic analyzer. And a pony.
- Was invited to a halloween party of someone else in the building. An interesting experience, since I didn't know anyone at the party (and, only know the person who invited me in the "we share a building entrace" sense) but survived, and it was pretty good. Definitely quite a challange for me anyway.
- umm.. things. Cataclysm soon hooray!
Nothing else much. Seems like quite a short list really.