Archive for May, 2017

Version 5 circuit boards are in!

Friday, May 26th, 2017

New circuit boards have arrived! This design is totally just going to work without any problems. Totally! No gig last weekend, so I had time to get the last details sorted out and put in an order. Parts won’t be here for a bit–I had to shop around. Mouser’s idea of “low risk high availability […]

That’s a lot of mouse feet

Thursday, May 25th, 2017

So I wore out yet another set of mouse feet. Scrape scrape. Didn’t immediately find a set of matching feet for my mouse, and then I thought, “wait, surely there’s a general solution to this.” The solution? 36 yards of PTFE tape. That’s PTFE, also known asĀ “stop saying Teflon, or we’ll sue you.” In this […]

I made a thing to reset my modem.

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017

CenturyLink can’t seem to stay online without frequent manual resets, so I made a thing out of other things that I got from the internet. Writing the code, soldering on some pins, and wiring up an intercept to the relay took about 3 hours, maybe 4 if you count the time I took sharing the […]