Busy Busy Busy

Been a while since I updated my journal. Since the last entry I have stopped work on my retro PC until I can find Low Density RAM for it, it also need the ISA expansion card which I was not able to win on eBay. Work has picked up again and college is tougher this time around thanks to the A-level Maths course that accompanies the engineering units, I was always bad at indices and sequential equations. Not to bad at logarithms so I’ve got that going for me which is nice.

Spent some time last weekend working on the bulk storage for my workshop. All the shelving is together now, made from the MDF I had left over from the exterior build. I had enough to make 3 shelves for the over-the-workbench storage as well but I will need to get more materials to finish that off, that will probably be cut at the lumber yard because I really don’t have the space or tools to make clean cuts on 2.4m by 1.3m wooden sheets. At some point I’ll make better storage for the boxes in the garage but for now the old kitchen cabinets will have to do.

The replacement board for my SliceMK Ergodox arrived and I have performed the surgery and software shenanigans to get it installed into the case and bonded to its bluetooth dongle again. The only minor setback is that the solar charge controller appears to be dead and draining the battery after a few days of charge. I can fix it with a new chip and a hot air gun so that is on the todo list, for now though I have just connected the battery directly to the PCB and it hasn’t needed to be charged in almost 2 months now.

There have been several updates to the sites page HTML layout. I removed all instances of CSS grids with the result being a much better rendering on older browsers, terminal browsers and browsers that don’t support HTML5. I’ve also simplified the content layout into less nested div blocks. As it stands the nav, main and footer are the only separations for the page content now. There are no more ‘containers’ like I had before (each one had multiple containers to manage the grids).