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Update - 13-6-21
4 years ago
Hello, everypony!
First, I'm, in protest of the US not using international date codes, measurements, and the like, now switching over to international everything, especially date codes, since day, month, year makes WAY more sense than month, day, year in my eyes.
Second, the collar project - I will be sharing a photo of the latex later tonight, I found that one of my old beater phones I bought from some dude whom I don't want to remember who was throwing it out last January has a pretty awesome camera, so that covers my broken phone. The latex is here, but I still have yet to be able to go out to the craft store in the next state over to get my fabric shears or the buckles or D-rings. I have to wait for my roommate's next day off and ask her again, I guess.
Third, My PC is still being stupid, but is at least stable enough to run Cubase. I think it might be more than likely that my GPU is a piece of trash, since it's literally an RX550 4GB with a VGA port on it (which, at the time of buying it, I didn't realise wasn't a thing that it supports natively) so I think that "Yeston" sold me a fake GPU, which would explain why the drivers crash at least once a boot, and why the PC is so unstable. Either that, or it's got a custom BIOS and DAC on it to make the VGA signal, which, at the dirt-cheap price point of sub-$150US I spent on it, is incredibly, incredibly unlikely.
Fourth, I'm working on my stress management, since I've had a lot of stuff tearing me apart inside, and it's causing me to freak out a lot, and probably taking years off my life. By working on stress management, I mostly mean drinking coffee at 4AM and sleeping during the late afternoon and actually eating for once.
I am hoping to get a prototype collar done within three days of being able to get the materials I need to actually work on one. I think I can quite easily do it, but I'm mostly just dealing with the slight annoyance of my roommate deciding to not, or quite possibly just forgetting to help me get to the craft store. I'd walk there, but it's about a two day walk, and that's along a highway. I can't get a taxi out there, and in this rural area, there's no bus line.
I should be moving to a friend's at some point, since he's willing to help me, since my roommates don't want me here due to me not finding a job, which, honestly, I fully understand. I'm hoping that up there in [redacted] state, I'll be able to find a job really, really easy. I should, since it's a big city, and those tend to be a lot less bigoted than a place like the one I'm in, and on top of that, there's just more places to work there.
I also have a few circuitry design ideas to try, like an experimental relay gate I designed, which, if it works, will allow quite a lot of analogue strangeness, or even possibly work as a relay oscillator. Only issue on a relay oscillator is that I need to use an LM741 operational amplifier IC to boost the input signal to at least 5V, otherwise the signal most likely won't actuate the relay entirely, or possibly at all.
That's about it today, thanks for reading, and once again, sorry for the absolute breakdown I had the other day.
Second, the collar project - I will be sharing a photo of the latex later tonight, I found that one of my old beater phones I bought from some dude whom I don't want to remember who was throwing it out last January has a pretty awesome camera, so that covers my broken phone. The latex is here, but I still have yet to be able to go out to the craft store in the next state over to get my fabric shears or the buckles or D-rings. I have to wait for my roommate's next day off and ask her again, I guess.
Third, My PC is still being stupid, but is at least stable enough to run Cubase. I think it might be more than likely that my GPU is a piece of trash, since it's literally an RX550 4GB with a VGA port on it (which, at the time of buying it, I didn't realise wasn't a thing that it supports natively) so I think that "Yeston" sold me a fake GPU, which would explain why the drivers crash at least once a boot, and why the PC is so unstable. Either that, or it's got a custom BIOS and DAC on it to make the VGA signal, which, at the dirt-cheap price point of sub-$150US I spent on it, is incredibly, incredibly unlikely.
Fourth, I'm working on my stress management, since I've had a lot of stuff tearing me apart inside, and it's causing me to freak out a lot, and probably taking years off my life. By working on stress management, I mostly mean drinking coffee at 4AM and sleeping during the late afternoon and actually eating for once.
I am hoping to get a prototype collar done within three days of being able to get the materials I need to actually work on one. I think I can quite easily do it, but I'm mostly just dealing with the slight annoyance of my roommate deciding to not, or quite possibly just forgetting to help me get to the craft store. I'd walk there, but it's about a two day walk, and that's along a highway. I can't get a taxi out there, and in this rural area, there's no bus line.
I should be moving to a friend's at some point, since he's willing to help me, since my roommates don't want me here due to me not finding a job, which, honestly, I fully understand. I'm hoping that up there in [redacted] state, I'll be able to find a job really, really easy. I should, since it's a big city, and those tend to be a lot less bigoted than a place like the one I'm in, and on top of that, there's just more places to work there.
I also have a few circuitry design ideas to try, like an experimental relay gate I designed, which, if it works, will allow quite a lot of analogue strangeness, or even possibly work as a relay oscillator. Only issue on a relay oscillator is that I need to use an LM741 operational amplifier IC to boost the input signal to at least 5V, otherwise the signal most likely won't actuate the relay entirely, or possibly at all.
That's about it today, thanks for reading, and once again, sorry for the absolute breakdown I had the other day.
It's just so dumb, all of it. Call me weird, but I'm training myself in European everything now. (also since I like the British more than Americans TBH, since I've only met nice Brits.)
I mean, I'm dating a British guy myself and he's very nice, so can confirm, yes.