Yeah! Actual work that actually involved me programming and solving bugs! It was awesome. Yup. I roxored.
Anyway, hellofa week, glad it's at the tail end.
Did a little shop time tonight, fixed up a new end-cap for the flaming tripod. I can test the color injectors this weekend maybe -- and I want to make a nice top-cap for it too, a cone or something; there are some neat effects around the sheet metal one I tested with.
The DigiKey parts came in for the Tesla! That was the bulk of the order. I think I'm missing a ferrite toroid, and that's about it. Ummm, maybe one other thing. I need to check my e-mails. But anyway, I doubt I'll have time to do much, MAYBE solder some stuff into the boards Sunday, MAYBE. Probably not; gotta do some housework, gotta do some accounting.
Oh, also did some shoptime around the Make article; testing out a plan-B, winding a new coil around the busted former on my busted subwoofer. I think I can make a new coil&former that will work! Right now, there is a layer of silicon on the wires drying -- that will have to be covered with something w/o much friction. I am thinking of using aluminum tape on the inside and outside to bond the wires and create a new former. I don't know if I can make that an un-shorted winding or if it will end up a shorted winding. We'll see. A high-power metal coil form has a slot in it, so it doesn't turn into a single turn in a nasty transformer. Without the slot, it's a "shorted winding" and can generate a lot of hassle.
I want to wrap up this article Sunday... Monday at worst? Tuesday? And not run it out to March 1st or 3rd. We'll see.
Also have games (might miss), also have Pie Day (can't miss!). Also have sick Marla, but she's getting better.