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What am out on this so far? Maybe close to $500? And of course another rev coming with protective resistors…

Of course there's now a better chance that I will do this Day 1 on the next project.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 4d

So got some prototype PCBs from JLCPCB. In playing with one I tried a direct short from base to emitter with no current limiting.

Away with thee, magic smoke!

Bodging some protective resistors to see if they protect the smoke but don't interfere with the circuits. (Adding another pair now.)

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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 6d

Wild, I forgot about the hilarious "Thompson Kids". I only ever saw just the screenshot, but I feel like, from that alone, I know the game.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 7d

Still in love with Teensy.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 9d

G'day mite.

Like that? ;-)

Okay, I'm 2 for 3.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 11d

Ha ha, what the hell does "get you out of time" even mean. We miss you, Billy.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 11d

Ultravox! > Ultravox

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 13d

I don't know — Man Ray?

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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 13d

Prototyping my first learning-electronics project kit is winding down (I am finishing up the manual as well). Top is through-hole, bottom my first go at surface-mount (I learned a few things and have changed it some).

(Hard to find a domain name these days. Went with CircuitPixies.)

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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 16d

Stop hogging them all, ha ha.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 16d

"Murmur" + "Reckoning". The greatest double LP that never was.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 16d

Getting a "Buc-ee's" vibe from Wallys.

I started a project to create modern road trip place-mats. Here is I-80 across Iowa:

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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 16d

An album, along with "Reckoning", that sent me in a completely new direction with regard to music. It's impossible to overstate the importance of those two albums on my life — and at just the right time when I was an early adult.

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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 19d

Friend of mine wrote HyperDisk — which maybe is in the same category? You could try it out. hyperdisk.raynersw.com

HyperDisk cleaner for Mac

hyperdisk.raynersw.com

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 19d

Yeah, sorry about "New York". When it's somewhere east of St. Louis, some of us midwesterners just go straight to New York. (I mean, where else would Burroughs be if not in Lawrence, Kansas making "shotgun art" in some field somewhere.)

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 20d

I like it.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 20d

Guessing she's in the upper right.
😇

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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 20d

It sounds like this thing will resolve itself then.

John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 20d

Anyway, besides inspiring me to try to get my little paper airplane game "Glider" published, thank you too for choosing it as best arcade game or something like that back in 1990 or so.

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