#garfield Logs

Jun 26 2018

12:05 AM rue_: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/images/p1100258.jpg
12:08 AM rue_: I made another DAC today
12:08 AM rue_: have two now
12:08 AM rue_: but I have to order more resistors if I'm gonna make more
12:08 AM zhanx: China express?
12:08 AM rue_: I wonder if I can tuck it all under a 74hc595?
12:08 AM rue_: yea
12:08 AM rue_: but the month will pass like it wasn't even there
12:08 AM zhanx: True
12:08 AM rue_: if your squinting at my R-2R, I modified the end
12:11 AM zhanx: Rue_ nice work
12:16 AM rue_: thanks, have to break out the find tweezers for that
12:17 AM rue_: some 0603 might be nice
12:17 AM rue_: hmm, I wonder, thats an idea, maybe I should get another 600 resistors
12:20 AM zhanx: I think i need a new soldering station that was not in the list of tools recovered over the phone
12:26 AM rue_: hmm
12:26 AM rue_: wasn't a really nice weller was it?
12:26 AM rue_: mines a hakko-canada !
12:26 AM rue_: (knockoff hakko parts, assembled in canada)
04:00 PM Tom_itx is now known as Tom_L
08:35 PM zhanx: rue_, i got just under 75% of one tool bag back today
08:44 PM Tom_L: where did it go?
08:44 PM zhanx: truck was broken into friday
08:45 PM Tom_L: seems to be a trend anymore
08:45 PM zhanx: state police were able to "find" one
08:45 PM Tom_L: mine didn't even bother looking
08:45 PM zhanx: only reason i have this tool bag back was the pawn shop reported it
08:46 PM Tom_L: nice of em
08:46 PM zhanx: i am surprised i got anything really
08:47 PM Tom_L: kat come around anymore?
08:47 PM zhanx: not for a while she is still on the seastead channels
08:48 PM Tom_L: unaware of those
08:48 PM zhanx: its a nitch thing really, living on a boat like its a farm
08:49 PM Tom_L: i figured as much
08:49 PM zhanx: only reason i am aware of it is due to my garden monitor system
09:51 PM zhanx: ok now that i have a multimeter again i can tune my stepper drivers for the 3d printer i got mad at
10:03 PM rue_shop3: did the parts arrive?
11:08 PM zhanx: parts?
11:08 PM zhanx: remind me rue_shop3
11:19 PM rue_shop3: dunno, hows the printer
11:20 PM zhanx: working on it tomorrow
11:20 PM zhanx: have not touched it since it crashed
11:22 PM rue_shop3: the head fell off
11:22 PM rue_shop3: cause you had no metal coathangers? :/
11:36 PM zhanx: i fixed that remember, i cut a bed frame
11:44 PM rue_: ok
11:44 PM rue_: so, whats left
11:47 PM zhanx: tune motors for voltage due to heat output on them
11:48 PM zhanx: i cant solder as i dont have one now
11:49 PM zhanx: i need to buy a couple of tools first before i can get another solder station as that is low on the list of work tools
11:49 PM zhanx: i put all the money i made today back into tools (again)
11:49 PM zhanx: rue_, i did get a weird call today
11:50 PM zhanx: about using a boat to check connections on the islands on the saint Lawrence river
11:50 PM zhanx: then IBM called and i was like ok taking that