Long lost Propeller board returns for Christmas. Don't you hate it when people tidy up?
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Earlier this year I welded a DIP Prop to a Raspberry Pi proto-board. Together with an SMD regulator and other SMD bits and bobs. I was quite proud of my first SMD soldering attempts. That board came in useful when Loopy and I were getting Open Spin working on WIFI routers.
I got distracted by work and such for a while but when I came back to the project my Propeller board was gone. Along with a Prop Plug and a nice blue LCD. I could not find it anywhere, not in my desk or my project boxes or tool boxes, nowhere. Did I take it to the office? No. Did I leave it on the bus? No (I have previously left one of Clusso's beautiful Triblades on the bus. Got it back from the bus company. I guess now a days they might call the bomb squad!) Am I going crazy? Don't answer.
'er in doors had been tidying the house. Did she know where it might have been tidied to? There is a long tradition around here of hiding my "mess" into various shoe boxes and stuffing it into cupboards and such. No.
Just happens we are moving house. Whilst packing everything I opened up a old tin box at the back of a shelf , which for sure is not mine, lo and behold there is my Prop board, Prop Plug and LCD!
Anyone around here know how that happened? No.
Don't you just hate it when your tidying obsessed better half sterilizes your work space?
Still, this story has a happy ending, Prop and I are reunited for New Year:)
Sorry for the ramble. Anyone else have this problem?
I got distracted by work and such for a while but when I came back to the project my Propeller board was gone. Along with a Prop Plug and a nice blue LCD. I could not find it anywhere, not in my desk or my project boxes or tool boxes, nowhere. Did I take it to the office? No. Did I leave it on the bus? No (I have previously left one of Clusso's beautiful Triblades on the bus. Got it back from the bus company. I guess now a days they might call the bomb squad!) Am I going crazy? Don't answer.
'er in doors had been tidying the house. Did she know where it might have been tidied to? There is a long tradition around here of hiding my "mess" into various shoe boxes and stuffing it into cupboards and such. No.
Just happens we are moving house. Whilst packing everything I opened up a old tin box at the back of a shelf , which for sure is not mine, lo and behold there is my Prop board, Prop Plug and LCD!
Anyone around here know how that happened? No.
Don't you just hate it when your tidying obsessed better half sterilizes your work space?
Still, this story has a happy ending, Prop and I are reunited for New Year:)
Sorry for the ramble. Anyone else have this problem?
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Just today, I am cleaning my Jim Williams workbench. I have found at least a dozen half done projects, ( mostly ercos' made me buy ebay). Luckily, I am the only one to blame. I can keep out of problems by not making any accusations. )
It is going to be awesome! Maybe I can leave something in a state and actually return to find it in the same state, minus whatever the cats may do.
(I don't fault the cats)
But it's not a total solution. We still have to share the garage where the messier things like rockcutting and woodworking get done, and things have gone missing. Most recently I loaned her a portable alarm clock which had actually been a Christmas gift from her to me so she could use it on a trip. One day she asked me to take out the garbage and when I lifted the lid of the can in the kitchen, there was my clock.
"What the hell?" I said.
"Oh, it wasn't working," she said.
"Well that's probably because the batteries are dead." Which they were.
Me? No. My cats and I agree on my work area. They are into everything else.
Now as to your Open Spin project that both you and Loopy were working on, currently Google has it at R-O status (Read-Only status.) they actively are convincing people to export such things to Github.
Loopy and I only got openspin compiled and running under OpenWRT so that we could run it on cheap MIPS based routers. Also a loader to go with it so you can Propgram a Prop connected to a WIFI router.
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Erco? Why is your robot over there playing with a big strange looking monster?
We moved house today. As I sit here surrounded by boxes and packing creates I have no idea where anything might be anymore. Did my beloved Propeller make the trip? Will I ever find it again in this chaos?
This move has also sabotaged any hope of a Christmas break project. (See my other recent thread). With any luck we will be sorted for some project action over the long New Year weekend.
Perhaps everything I try to make in future should begin with some kind of locator beacon so that I can find it again
lol! I was just thinking "you need a new project whose sole purpose is to track/locate your other projects!"
Not much good for location finding, the signal is pretty much at the noise floor. At least I'll know if I'm min the right city
Haven't you learned to pack all your goodies into a special box or two, clearly labelled.
You have to apply your programming standards to packing too
</tongue-in-cheek>
The logical order of things is, you better pack and unpack your own boxes, the unenlightened do not hold the same reverence to inanimate object's.