{"id":252,"date":"2011-03-14T19:52:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-03-14T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:25:08","slug":"project-inertia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Project inertia"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: rest day]<\/p>\n

A lot of hobby projects I read about sound interesting. Work projects come up on the schedule and they sound challenging. Sometimes I just have a hard time getting started.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if it is the planning. It probably is the planning. Anything that sounds like it is going to take 6 months or a year to complete is just way big and maybe I shouldn’t start.<\/p>\n

They tell me the key to that situation is to break large projects down into smaller parts. And those smaller parts break down into chunks that you can manage in a single session or maybe two sessions. And then you have to have some intermediate results, some blinky lights, a program that prints “Hello World” on the screen, a radio section that creates a sine wave, or the ending chapter of your book.<\/p>\n

So… I’m getting closer on my GPS disciplined frequency standard. I finally ordered a negative voltage regulator chip and it arrived with some other stuff on Saturday. So now I need to lay out some simple circuit boards and get my voltages all going. I still need to install various boards that I have floating around. And I need to put in a switch for the rs-232 port that allows me to talk either to the GPS or to the oscillator controller.<\/p>\n

Once I get this one done I have a few other projects that are on-deck:<\/p>\n

  • I need to re-cap an old Hallicrafters sx-99 receiver. I have tested the tubes but otherwise nothing has happened yet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 progress 5%<\/li>\n
  • I’d like to build a wattmeter using the log amp chip (w7zoi et. al.)\u00a0 progress 5%<\/li>\n
  • My tower project is still ongoing. I have a hole in the ground and need to build a rebar cage and get the concrete in.\u00a0 progress 8%<\/li>\n
  • I have a microcontroller project that has not gotten very far:\u00a0 building an iambic keyer with an ST8S-Discovery board.\u00a0 progress 10%<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [Today’s run: rest day] A lot of hobby projects I read about sound interesting. Work projects come up on the schedule and they sound challenging. Sometimes I just have a hard time getting started. I don’t know if it is the planning. It probably is the planning. Anything that sounds like it is going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}