Archive: 2021-01
Week 4: Give it a rest
My right elbow was a bit uncomfortable at the start of the week. I’ve been using a finger trackball (currently this massive trackball) instead of a mouse for a decade and a half specifically to avoid this, but sometimes the only solution is some actual rest. I spent Monday and Tuesday consciously taking a break and doing things that didn’t require much of my arms, and especially that weren’t in front of the computer.
Week 3: What do whales drink?
I finished assembling my DIY NeoPixel Monome grid – someone else called them “neomonome”, which I like. The solution that actually worked for soldering them together was to print a task-specific jig onto which I could screw the boards before soldering short wires between the edge pads. This worked perfectly: all the boards ended up soldered exactly lined up, and the whole thing lies perfectly flat.
Week 2: The means of production
I feel as if I’ve spent the past week doing nothing but modelling enclosures and 3D printing them.
Week 1: Christmas is officially over
The tree is gone, the decorations are down, and Christmas is over.
Week 0: As Dijkstra intended