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Using Eagle, I drew up a schematic for a 6-digit score display with an I2C interface, and had it autoroute a two-sided board for the schematic: That sounded easy, but it took many days to add each part to the Eagle libraries so that it knew where the pads were and how big each [...]
Absinthe, La Fée Verte, The Green Fairy. So-called because late Victorians drank this stuff and claimed to have hallucinations. In truth, it was likely that the hallucinations, if any, were caused by toxic chemicals put in the drink to turn it as green as possible. Thujone was thought to be a psychoactive compound found in [...]
Behold, two sides for the casing of a bit slice, cut using the Trotec laser cutter into 1/2″ plywood. I wonder if wood is strong enough? If so, I could save a lot of money, since acrylic is much more expensive than wood. And wood can be stained to look 19th century The slots are [...]
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My experiments with using the Roland CNC SRP didn’t turn out too well. Although the GCode program worked well, it turned out to be very difficult to get consistent heights for the parts. Out of every run of eight parts, I would have to throw away three on average for being too short. I suspect [...]

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