Keith wrote:
I've had this 5-year project that refuses to die.
It's probably an
undergraduate level project that most students would do in a month or
something. The slow progress is honestly embarrassing. I don't
dedicate much time to it, but that's barely an excuse.
Pfft, sounds like just about all of my projects. Even MAGMA (the
driver/analysis software for the DiscFerret) is falling way behind
schedule, and that's my undergrad final-year project...
In any case, I've managed to scavenge a day off tomorrow (by
"accidentally on purpose" forgetting to register for the university's
"Research Festival"), so I'll be building a pair of load-testers and the
power supply section of the DiscFerret. I need to find out how well it
handles load transients and so on before I strap it to an FPGA...
Thank $DEITY for programmable power supplies (with built-in
volt/amp/watt meters!) and oscilloscopes...
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Phil.
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