took a walk this morning with lucy exploring some deep corners of Royal Park - the large park land near our house. then was quite a chill morning working from home
orginized a package to be sent to the us - using easyship which is a third party logistics service. usually i just use auspost but since they are not shipping to the US at the moment, i had an order placed before i realised and updated the shop - so after offering to refund them so they could shop at perfect circuit state side instead but didnt hear back - the package is sent today. ups world wide saver through easyship was by far the cheapest option - by about a half of any others i saw... (including directly through ups weirdly.. ) but its still more than twice what i was paying with aus post... good to atleast have tested this alternative incase i need it again in the future...
then i moved the 3d printer inside the closest by my studio, did a test print and then printed the ANKHEG design requested for the dnd campaign... we scaled the module by 70% to fit the desired size.. and it did print no problem but the model shape meant lots of supports to build small overhanging bits.. so trying to remove supports seems to have damaged bits of the model... this could be due to the scaling. but also this model may be best suited for resin printing... anyway.. will try another model of ANKHEG we have that doesnt require scaling and see how that turns out... was happy with the reduced noise from the printer... i put some bubblewrap under the door of the cubbord and that really seems to have done it...
my next task for the day was to finish testing the hardware for CYPHER_EURO - to my surprise it mostly worked. i used the wrong usb-a footprint to attach the keyboard. and also forgot to wire 5v power line to the keyboard so needed to fix this... and then also forgot to wire a trace to a multiplexer but besides these few things everything else that i tested was looking pretty good.. atleast at first glance.. (forgot to test the output overlaid on external video yet) but that is very promising... now will just be small tweaks and checking some of the values sit where expected... but no big obvious errors...
i was thinking of trying to test the hardware for the SYNC_OPE_EURO while at it today but might leave this for another day. it always takes a lot of brainpower to do these testings and for a friday avo think should leave it on a pretty good note. i have a meeting at 4pm with the other artists showing at this play_station exhibition so will jump on this soon...
been a pretty good week - feels nice to be focusing on some of my own projects again. and the journaling so far has been positive!