In the movie Core the computer geek hero (yes he was the hero) says at one point, “My Kung Fu is strong”.<\/p>\n
That’s exactly how I felt yesterday. I wasn’t really designing a new circuit. I was was locked in a ‘to the death’ martial arts struggle. Each component threw obstacle in the way and fixes impacted other components. This board reads many very small, (and I do mean small) voltages off a customers experiment then notes the direction of the sensor. It takes the data and writes it to a memory stick and fires off a copy with a short range wireless serial port to another computer.<\/p>\n
I would give a karate chop and layout one solution only to find that design fought back with a “manufacture stopped making that components six months ago” kick. Thinking fast I ducked with the replacement part, but I got nailed by USB interface and A\/D converted pushing me over my power budget.<\/p>\n
Normally I would spend a couple of weeks designing, then prototype and test one then build up the flight article. However with the schedule I had yesterday to design it, today to build two and tomorrow to write the software for it.<\/p>\n
Late last night it all came together. As long as the Saturday part deliverys really make it, all will be well. My Kung Fu is strong.<\/p>\n
I wonder if I could recruit David Carridine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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