I have had a busy, frustrating and somewhat productive day today. First thing this morning I had an appointment at Eastgardens to program some IC’s for a friend. Normally this would be a simple task, but not today. First thing was that one of the ICs started heat up… In fact so hot that I almost burnt my finger on it. I then found that the IC socket was not aligned correctly, and killed the chip. What I did not realize for a few hours was that it killed a 2nd chip at the same tine. Anyway I programmed the chips and they would not work… Or they would slightly work. Nothing I could do would fix things.<\/p>\n
That is until I for some reason removed the faulty chip and the device mostly worked – and replacing it fixed the problem. That might sound simple, but there was probably a couple of hours work in that. I also tried to connect to the wireless network at the same time but it did not seem to work. Eventually I gave up and used my wireless card through Vodafone which worked well.<\/p>\n
Then I whipped over to Pymble. I was planning to go over tomorrow, but there was some time today after the previous job. This turned out really well – and I was able to brief a colleague on some work – showing him how he should look at the problem, and how he should start. This was fun, and probably took 90 minutes or so.<\/p>\n
The other thing that happened today… My Video Recorder failed overnight. It was just the clock working this morning, but when nothing responded and i power cycled it which stopped it working totally. Probably a power supply problem… Maybe… I might have a look at repairing it… But I picked up a new recorder anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have had a busy, frustrating and somewhat productive day today. First thing this morning I had an appointment at Eastgardens to program some IC’s for a friend. Normally this would be a simple task, but not today. First thing …<\/p>\n