Subj : Re: Quarantine projects
To : Dr. What
From : Moondog
Date : Thu Mar 26 2020 06:51 pm
Re: Re: Quarantine projects
By: Dr. What to Moondog on Thu Mar 26 2020 10:38 am
> -=> Moondog wrote to All <=-
>
> Mo> For those who are considered non-essential or cannot partake in normal
> Mo> communi ty events, what have you been doing to stay occupied?
>
> Not a whole lot since I am working from home.
>
> But that does let me work on low bandwidth projects.
>
> 1. The new server. I picked up a Raspberry Pi rack from etsy and I am setti
> it up with 2.5" hard drives and a couple Raspberry Pis. So far, it seems to
> working.
>
> I can work on the Pis in between application builds.
>
> 2. One of my non-computer hobbies is renovating old Tonka/Buddy L trucks. I
> have 2 plain ones that have been sitting around for a while and am going to
> finish them up to give to a co-worker who recently had a kid.
>
> It only takes a few minutes to put on a coat of paint then I have to wait -
> work.
>
>
> Unfortunately, my workspace it taken up with my daily work. So playing with
> new birthday present (a fancy desoldering tool) has to be put on hold.
>
> And I had to put my TRS-80 Model 4P on the shelf to make room on the desk.
> playing with that's on hold.
>
> I'm getting a Tandy 1400LT today. We'll see about that.
>
> ... Computer Hacker wanted. Must have own axe.
The Tandy sounds like fun. I've been watching Adrian Blacks' Youtube channel
and he has shown some cool Tandy videos.
Recently I picked up a Pi 4 and considered moving over several tasks I use an
Athlon X2 5000 for. It's my previous main system and it's running Ubuntu and
acts as a file share, document scanning station, and runs Guitarix well
enough with low latency. While I'll probably keep using the 5000 for heavier
tasks, I could get by with using a Pi for document scanning and things I
wantto keep off my Win10 box.
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