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Lifetime underachiever and World Record Holder in the list of also-rans. Also, strangely, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. So, there's that.
Geek Girl Makes Stuff! Fran is a pedal designer, engineer, artist, musician, seamstress, occasional radio DJ, subpar singer, an SMIEEE, and full time goofball.
That click-clack is very satisfying. So much so, that I think I'd hook it up to the one second pulse generator. I wonder how to reset the counter to zero. This one happened to roll over, but in general, I wonder the correct way to zero the counter.
Veeder Root! My first job after college I set up a series of their time meters to keep track of how much ammonia and antifoam our bacteria used overnight. Without antifoam the mornings were very...messy.
Fran, I've never understood why "Hollywood" continued to use nitrate film years after safety film was used for 16mm film. Even if it was a bit cheaper, how could that savings possibly exceed the cost of movie vaults and theaters burning down?
Wait holy cow when did I get gifted a membership?? That's badass whoever did that, thank you! I've wanted to support Fran for years, but I'm on disability so I'm too broke.
The meter .. or aggregate counter, brings back memories. I used to reset them when I refurbished certain equipment. This was not dishonest, as we never sold refurb kit as new, the meter was used solely for our billing and service, and well .. customers just like to see "zero" on first power. I tried at first "slipping the cams" but there were failure rates. I tried writing a GW basic program (what ever happened to my IBM SX-45?) that used the parallel port (and a transistor) that would query the current reading and calculate pulsees back to zero .. but never did the math on how long that would take, and the solenoids don't like overclocking. Finally figured out plain dumb old compressed shop air with the blower nozzle on the LSD would spin them back in three or four minutes. I remember those Rat Shack LED packs. I saved up for one in c. 1977 .. $3.99. Not the pretty ones you have, but they were miniature white base, red diffused lens .. no idea if they had an official form factor.
My dad will sometimes tell the story of how he went to the local electronic parts store and bought his first led. Must have been in the late 60s, maybe early 70s.
