Andy is using the software from a company called ExpressPCB to help him make a lot of electronic circuits to control his electric and heating systems.
He first uses the ExpressPCB software to draw the schematic that he has designed for one of the circuit boards:
Then he lays out the circuit board
And orders it over the internet using the company’s software.
In a few days he gets a board like this:
And he adds the components he ordered elsewhere on the internet:
Then all he has to do is make sure it works correctly, otherwise it’s back to step one to try again. He has a gazillion of different ones to make, so it does keep him off the streets and out of trouble, as we say.
November 23, 2015
that all makes me tired just looking at it. LOLOL!!!
the main thing is… it makes him happy.
a man should always have that… whatever it might be.
a woman too for that matter! 🙂
Yes, our job right now is to be happy so Kaitlin and Torben don’t have to worry about us.
It is all Greek and Latin to me!
I don’t have to understand it to be impressed. 🙂
So ambitious! So complicated! Don’t you wish he could just take up gardening? Or knitting? Keep us posted with the results..
Not at all. I admire him. He’s planning ahead by trying to automate the controls for his photovoltaic and heating systems before controlling them manually will be too much. (How he will manage all those dead trees falling across the roads is another matter.) Is he being impractical with this project and the fruit trees he’s growing? Who cares? He’s fully engaged in his life. His idea of putting the Christmas tree on the roof worries me more.
I thought you said in the last reply – cross stitch – but no you said something about cross/roads!
You see that kind of circuitry would make a fine x-stitch pattern!
Spoken like a true artist!