Just wanted to take a happy snap of the lab today. All is flux. All is temporary.
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Triple 4k monitors
Well, shit kinda got out of hand, and now I have three 4k monitors on my desk.
I didn’t intend for this to happen. What happened was I thought that one of the monitors that I use for my computers on the bench and in the booth was broken. So I hastily ordered a replacement. Then it turned out that that monitor wasn’t broken — the power cord had fallen out — but by the time I had discovered that eBay was telling me it was too late to cancel my order.
So for a lousy AU$250 I now have a third monitor attached to my primary workstation. Since I have pretty much no need or use for a third monitor what I have done is create a desktop background image for it with a bunch of reference material.
Extra Content #7: The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming
This post is part of my video blog: In The Lab With Jay Jay.
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In this video I pull the floppy disk out of the cover of my copy of The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition).
I have this wonderful old book The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming (2nd Edition). It was published in 1997 but is still available for purchase through Amazon.
The book comes with a floppy disk (that’s right: a floppy disk!). I had to buy a USB floppy disk drive to read it. I have made the content from the disk available in a tarball, here: scsi.tgz.
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New camera, woohoo!
I am pleased to advise that today my new Logitech BRIO 4K webcam arrived. I have installed it in the booth, and unlike the last one, this one actually works. The implication for me is less stuffing around when it’s time to record videos because I will no longer have to move one camera between two mounts, the cameras are static now.
ATtiny85
These are some notes I made about the pin-out of the HW-260 adapter boards I have for my ATtiny85 microcontrollers. I think my ATtiny45’s are also compatible. Not sure about my ATtiny13A’s.
Happy snaps
Some photos I took this morning of some of my microcontrollers and associated devices.
New computer ‘trail’
I have built a new computer ‘trail‘ out of my old workstation ‘tradition‘. I was able to do this because I migrated the VirtualBox VMs that were running on ‘tradition’ over to QEMU/KVM VMs now running on ‘lore‘.
My new computer ‘trail’ is setup as the recording workstation for the “booth” in my studio. This is good because now I can record at 4K in the booth!
I don’t use Windows much these days but this new studio workstation runs Windows 11 Pro. I haven’t used software RAID on Windows before but for this workstation I setup a RAID1 mirror using 2x 2TB NVMe drives. I was able to configure the block size for the NTFS file system so I picked 2MB (which was the maximum) as this RAID array will only be for storing video recordings (which are huge files).
Final round of Silicon Chip books
My good friend Dubz shouted me another round of Silicon Chip books as can be seen here. I now own all the books which have been marked and I’ve pretty much purchased everything that was left.
State of the lab
Thought today was snapshot worthy. Here is my lab as it stands at the end of 2023:
And this is what my lab looked like two years ago, when it began:
Bosch Accessories 91-Piece V-Line Titanium Drill Bit and Screwdriver Bit Set with Ratcheting Screwdriver (For Wood, Masonry, and Metal)
Picked up some drill bits from Amazon for AU$30: Bosch Accessories 91-Piece V-Line Titanium Drill Bit and Screwdriver Bit Set with Ratcheting Screwdriver (For Wood, Masonry, and Metal).
