on the move – Page 3 – Michael Doornbos

Still lots of work to do on the job scheduling and “worker node” software side for sure, but my 6502 Cubesat sized “cluster” is up and running on a VIC-20 controller node. Not a bad cap to the week. Happy Friday!

Iiiiittttt’ssss worrrrrkkkingggg. Iiiiittttt’ssss worrrrrkkkingggg.

Boy I do have weird ideas sometimes. And sometimes they even work 😉

Been having an intermittent problem with my Corsham SD board.

Broke out the scope and see some dead pins. Looked it over carefully and found the USB Type B connector is keeping the boards from getting close enough for the front pins to make good contact. Works if I force them.

Been obsessed with James Nestor’s book on Breath for the last week or so. Wanted to dive into learning Vue, so here’s my simple Breathe app to reset my breath throughout the day.

Use it here any time: https://imapenguin.com/breathe/

Working with these great bi directional signal mux boards from @sparkfun today.

They will be switching between serial inputs between my 6502 cubesat sized “cluster” and their controller computer. Next up is writing a dead simple communication protocol and task queue system.

That’s the best packed and shipped old book I’ve bought in a long time. Bravo random eBay seller.

Nothing says “easy to read” like a VIC-20 serial program in 40 column mode connecting to a remote BASIC machine. I mean, it takes up almost 2/3 of the screen. Plenty of room ;-) I do have a Commodore 128 with a very good 80 column display, but who wants this stuff to be easy?

This is turning out even better than I hoped. Three 6502 cluster nodes and their serial multiplexer are now hardware complete + tested on their Commodore 64 controller. Hard part is next: writing software. Is VERY close to cubesat sized so now my brain is whirling about that idea

I’ve had a working “world’s worst paper tape reader” for a year now. Where does the time go?

Moving my serial multiplexer hack to a more permanent ish setup. I really dig these gold and black proto boards.