Well, pickle me and call me fred…
It’s only taken me 38 years to finish a project I started at college. It was an ambitious capacitance meter that I started for my final, which, needless to say, didn’t work, and got put in a box, and then ultimately lost in the chaos.
What started all this off again was I finally managed to find the electronics magazine it was published in and found the missing page and information.
I had to unearth the location of all the bits around the house, and… it lives. 😀
Two faulty (from new) HEF4093 and HEF4511 i.c.’s and some higher spec resistors for better calibration.
Would have been handy back then, but it always nagged at me in the back of my mind, now it’s done. Phew.
It was, (and still is) my goal to finish all the little nagging jobs that I shelved over the years.
This one was a bit of a biggie for me, as I couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong. I thought I’d etched a mistake into the circuit board or something, turns out it was just a couple of faulty chips from new, which at the time would have been improbable or impossible to believe.
It’s been very satisfying clearing up all the dead bits of stuff and freeing up my cluttered brain, ready for new clutter. 😛