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Day: December 21, 2008

x0xb0x #888 Mainboard Complete

Published December 21, 2008

Top of the finished mainboard PCB for x0xb0x #888, showing the mode and bank selector switches, red LEDs, and tactile switches.

After sleeping in a bit, most of today was spent on the mainboard for x0xb0x #888. Everything went quite well, the board cleaned up great, and it’s ready to hook up in the case. I even made a particular point of soldering all sealed components before washing, then doing electro-mechanical parts afterward with no-clean flux. I haven’t always been this particular in the past, and having to occasionally avoid a switch or button while scrubbing the flux off was a hassle.

Tomorrow I’m hoping to start on painting the back panel, possibly adding a power switch, and assembling everything for its first full-system test and (hopefully) tuning. I’ve already confirmed functionality of the power supply and USB (which the FT232BM from yesterday handles), so that’s a good start.

Here’s two more photos from today’s work:

· Soldered connections for the tactile switches, showing the slight bit of residue from no-clean flux.
· Detail of the cleaned solder joints on the DAC, located between the mode and bank switches.

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Fiberccino

Published December 21, 2008

Scanned recipe for a Benefiber Fiberccuino. This recipe was received in a book of Benefiber recipes which someone placed in my front door handle.

Yesterday while washing dishes someone was walking around my neighborhood putting Benefiber recipe booklets in people’s front door handles. Living in an area with mostly older / retired people I must get roped into the demographic of those who buy fiber supplements.

While I like ensuring that my diet has sufficient amounts of fiber in it, I do so by eating things like porridge instead of bizarre concoctions like the Fiberccino shown above. Water (capitalized, for some reason) is the most natural thing in there, with refined sugar as the distant second.

Other recipes in this booklet include Upside-Down Pizza, Quick Sloppy Joes, Cajun Chicken Salad, Cheesecake Pie, Apple Dumplings, and Raspberry Sauce, all with Benefiber-brand wheat dextrin, because Benefiber® Makes Taking Fiber Easier Perverse™.

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