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no more snow please
Monday, February 21 2011
There were a couple inches of snow on the ground this morning, which is not the kind of thing I normally am happy seeing at this point in the year (psychologically, winter is officially ends on my birthday). The only good thing about this snow was that it wasn't enough to justify shoveling, though had it fallen in early January I would have scrupulously scraped it all out of the driveway and pathways.
I spent the day going back and forth between a dull and tiresome web development project and the much more exciting Solar Controller III (what I'll be calling it from now on). I was trying to button up all the hardware details and make it so I could do most hardware modifications from the topside of the controller board, which will allow me to keep it in place for all but the most serious operations. A metaphor is in order: you doesn't want to have to pull your engine to change your car's oil. I had already socketed all the integrated circuits to make them easy to replace, and I had even socketed all the resistors used to pull up the voltages coming from the temperature-measuring thermistors (this would allow me to easily swap in thermistors with different ratings). Today I added arrays of pins connecting to pins on the Atmega microcontrollers that I wasn't yet using.
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