Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Plumbing heights

Today I was supposed to be staying in waiting for the plumber, then the courier taking away my broken graphics card. So I figured I’d catch up on some soldering I’d been meaning to do while they were wrenching apart my bathroom. Turns out the overflow isn’t a big deal, since its got an internal one now instead of an external one, but I’ve now got two shiny new taps and all four in the bathroom work – no more having to check them make sure they really are turned off.

Then just as they were leaving the courier turned up. And I’ve finished my soldering, well, apart from a slight blobbing on one of the IC holders, but I can’t do anything about that until I’ve got a solder sucker, and I need a power supply and some sensible wiresnips. But thats it, I’m now free to go out again, and I hadn’t expected to be able to have a plan this afternoon.


6 comments

    • Just a PIC microcontroller programming and experimentation board – a little kit, but its a step towards bigger projects…not sure what they are yet, though.

    • Just gotta think of something to do with it now its built….I’ve got a display module to go with it, but haven’t thought about that yet, I was going to add a USB controller but couldn’t get one of those from Maplins.

  1. Now theres an idea, I’ve got a couple of spare phones which’ll do infrared, all I need is to get my IR pod back from Chip, a relay, a motor and a bit of inginuity. I wonder if you can fit a crude IrCOMM stack into a PIC?

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