hello world

i just set up this digital journal / diary based on the code shared from my friend paloma

i felt inspired reading their journal entries and decided that documenting some of my own journey could help holding a wider perceptive..

my intention is to share my day to day tasks and accomplishments mainly related to my art practice designing and building video circuits for underscores.shop

in the last few years i have felt increasingly repelled from sharing my life on social media - even on the decentralized and ethical mastodon network where i tend to exclusively scroll these days.. i hope this journal could act as a substitute for some of the positive sides of posting life updates..

i havent yet decided whether i will make this public facing - maybe it will be private at first with the option to work up to making it public. atleast i will write with the assumption that others could see it one day, compared to my extensive local markdown note-taking in joplin - which is as chaotic and unstructured as my thoughts lol

todays tasks

its a saturday and i dont usually work on the weekend. however iv been fighting a cold on and off for over a week now and still not feeling up to leaving the house much. most of august has been dedicated to:

  1. teaching my 6 week online class which is once a week on a tuesday and any followups or preparations related to that

  2. working on an art commission for a group show at play_station gallery in Te Whanganui-a-Tara that opens beginning of october

this has meant taking a wee break from my usual research & development into video circuits for underscores which has been nice. but also nice to come back to them with some fresh energy.

i have some prototype pcbs for new designs that needed to be built and tested and wanted to get all of them done in one go while all the parts are spread out and messy... two of the builds went well yesterday considering it is my first time working with two_sided smd designs (will outline more info on this in a future post i hope) but still had two more to do before putting everything away...

so my plan was to just get the soldering done today while im staying in anyway. however after spending maybe 20 minutes searching my studio (in a slight headcold haze) for the pcb i needed to solder i finally discovered i never ordered this pcb in the first place! i had ordered the stencil and all the parts... so no luck there. decided to put in a jlcpcb order right now and happy to find out that they have discounts on the standard global line shipping for small orders that makes a single pcb order very affordable (came to around 10AUD all up for 5x pcb and shipping!)

then i figured i would make the other board atleast - which i confirmed i definitely did order! but also couldnt find it anywhere... i guess it got put in the wrong place when i did a big studio clean at end of the art commission project (often i find a tidy studio just as hard to find what i need as a messy one...) so i decided it was a sign to not try to work today and get back to bed (where im writing this) oh i also added another order of that pcb to the jlcorder (love you can add to an order after the fact by the way - so useful for my scatterbrain) just in-case those other pcbs never do show up...

anyway its a lot to dump on the first entry - since i have some bringing up to speed to do i guess. and still finding my tone/expression for this journal. currently my phone has both a broken camera and around 1/3rd of broken screen so it isnt much good for photos or writing this from... but i look forward to sharing images and writing entries by phone when i get a new one