I’m going over to a friend’s house for New Year’s Eve dinner tonight. They’re making crab cakes, I’m making this. Should be quite a meal!
What's been on my mind lately? Read on...
After some reading and experimenting this afternoon, I managed to get the plotter to plot arbitrary PDF files. Sweet.
I’m hoping to finish the layout for the robot arm this week, and send the design out for fabrication before I start work on the 14th. As part of that effort, I figured I could use the new plotter to make a nice plot of the PCB. Unfortunately, getting that up and running is a little more complicated (only a little) than I have the energy for today. Another time, perhaps.
Thanks to Jared & Chika, I became the proud custodian of a plotter today. I’ve got plenty of other projects going right now, so it may be a bit before I get it up and plotting, but it should be fun once I do.
Unfortunately, my D70 has been exhibiting some problems lately. Starting a couple months ago, it would occasionally show ‘CHA’ on the LCD instead of the number of images remaining, and wouldn’t record pictures until I cycled the power. I read a bit about this on the inter-webs, and that seemed to implicate my CF memory card. However, when I bought a new one yesterday, it had the same issue. Now the only question is whether this can be fixed by cleaning the contacts on the CF card slot as Nikon technical support suggests, or whether it’s a bigger electrical issue.
As you can imagine, I’m not too excited by the prospect of sending my camera away for a couple weeks to get the contacts cleaned and paying a bunch of money for that privilege. Instead, I’m thinking I might try to clean the contacts myself (especially given Mike & my recent success fixing his point and shoot). And while I’m mucking around in there, I might just add an electrical shutter release jack (like these guys do), since the D70 doesn’t have one.