Workin' and livin'; livin' and workin'!
When I get home from work, lately I haven't wanted to think about or do anything much electronics or computer related; I still do, but I am not enjoying it much. It may just be the heat.
When I go into my shop, what I've been doing lately is "organizing" parts for my bench. Things like resistors, transistors, diodes, etc. BTW, anybody have good ideas on how to sort resistor values into multi-drawers so that they are fairly easy to access when you need them, but you don't end up with a single drawer of a single value with a single "1W 1M" resistor in it? I've been trying to come up with a system, but I seem to be wasting label tape more than anything. It may be that I just need a "catchall" drawer.
I've got a ton of multi-drawer cabinets, and I am trying to come up with a good system where I can have all my parts available and accessible, but have frequently used/needed parts quick-at-hand. These would likely be (mainly) ATMegas, certain types of resistors, certain transistors, diodes, caps, etc. Then in other cabinets have parts that are used, but not as often, organized by type. I might end up with a cabinet or two of ICs vs a cabinet or two of passives...
And I need a good LCR meter badly (I bought a small multimeter that does capacitance, but it won't read below a certain range in nF - and I want to make sure some 22 pF caps I have purchased are in-range for some 16 MHz crystals I have - all of these parts were bought surplus, and should be good, but I want to test a batch to make sure).
Beyond that, I am trying to set things up to get an Arduino or some kind of "hacker space" meeting going on my side of the valley (theres a nice one that occurs on the east side, that is waaay too far away to get there when they have their meetings); then there's the robot project if I can ever get back to it (I also have a huge mini-scooter dual-motor transaxle I need to test).
Ugh.
