[today’s run: 5+ miles]
First of all, the little dog at S. Evans Rd and Limerock Rd was not there this morning. No dead body, no vultures circling. I wonder if someone took him home?
Anyway, I thought I would make a list of my current projects. I’ve been kind of stuck for awhile and working on my surplusing project. But I have some other stuff cooking in the background:
- columbus automated weather station – I have it running but do not have the wifi or the solar power worked out. I need to buy a charge controller for the solar and maybe a different wifi dongle for the wifi.
- SCAF filter: I bought parts to build this and they are sitting in a pile. I need to do a layout and build a cirucit board.
- HW-8 internal audio filter: I bought a different audio filter to put inside the HW-8 transceiver. The HW-8 has a ‘wide/narrow’ switch but the stock narrow setting has always been poor. I need to finish the plan for putting this new thing in place and then get it done.
- HBR receiver: I have a good supply of parts to start this, just haven’t done it. It may be more of a winter project.
- Freescale 2 meter VHF amp: I think I may have a line on a large heatsink. I have the freescale chip. Lots more stuff needed to get this off the ground.
Others: My scrapping project has turned up an X-Y vector display which could be made into a slick looking clock via sparkfun kit ($30). I think I am in good shape with the time/frequency stuff. Adding NTP to the GPSDO would be cool but I haven’t decided to do it, don’t really need it. I have some parts toward a nixie clock (driver chips and nixie tubes).
Picture: This thing is an “ionization gauge”. I don’t really know what that means. But this one has a broken filament so my tech-porn ebay pictures were for naught..
