t.A.T.u meets Rammstein. Downloadable mp3s. Splendid!

Ho hum, 14 pages in this schematic, up from 1 in the first version. Now waiting for a reply from the PCB assembly house to see just how happy they are about sticking sizeable chunks of the circuitry on the bottom of the PCB just to make it fit.

I am going to dream dragging little coloured blobs with rat tails attached around...

Modern surface mount chips are all very well, but prototyping with them is a sod. I need to somehow solder 8 bits of wire (two of the contacts are on the back) onto this little thing (a dual MOSFET).

( Too bloody small! )

Attacking a pumpkin with a Dremel is a remarkably effective way to get covered in pumpkin juice. I blame the interwebs for putting bad ideas into my head...

( A craft knife was a better tool most of the time... )

I've often thought autumn a hateful season (everything turns brown and then it rains for six months) and wondered at those who say they like it. After a climb (literally in places... the path wouldn't have got me to the summit before sunset) up Mont Royal this afternoon I may have to change my opinion, it's clearly just a matter of botany.


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I'm on my first trip out of the UK (actually, out of England) since a tedious business trip to Eindhoven when I was still at Philips back in 2003. How non-cosmopolitan of me. Ho hum. The flight was the least unpleasant long haul I've ever been on, evidently the standard human used by the designers of the Airbus A330 wasn't a shrunken dwarf ( Read more... )

Clearing out my phone's memory card I came across these photos from a few weeks ago of Thoresby Hall taken at night without a flash. I think the grainy nature adds a certain something...

( Grainy... )

Computers may be stupid, but having to search for a "low IQ" power supply seems harsh.

(IQ = quiescent power, power that the power supply uses to run itself, I need something in the not-very-many µA range...)

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Just got a new toy at work, a nice EEE PC (sadly a black one rather than the pink I asked for...). Eventually it'll end up in a waterproof box up a tower acting as a bridge between our sensor devices and the uni wifi network but I get to take it home for the weekend to play with (and get our dev system compiled on it ( Read more... )