Stuff is working.
Mountain Girl got the synchronizer all put together. I found it on the bench this morning, plugged in the line drivers, plugged the synchronizer into the FPGA board and it worked like a dream, especially after I fixed some bad logic. (There's a bit more that needs more fixing. Tomorrow. Because I live in the lab.)
This afternoon, she tells me how when she finished it, she proudly showed it to Dr. Smith. "And he looked at it and said he'd seen better wire wrap jobs. I was so mad! I think for a first effort it's pretty good."
"I think it's great. It worked when I plugged it in. Did you tell him that it was Pinocchio who taught you how to wire wrap?"
When Cali-boy shows up, we get him to complete his parts list and test his circuit. He got this filter/amplifier combination working (finally), but hadn't plugged it into a Hamster board to see if it worked for real.
"Better test it." I almost don't want to know, in case it doesn't.
"You think I should solder it onto some perf board?"
"I think we should test it in the breadboard before we commit to solder."
Once we figure out a way to connect everything, we run a test and his circuit works to spec. Yes! We call people in to see. Witnesses are good. We take a screen capture of the waveform.
And the fourth member of the team?
"So, where's Ratso?"
"He hasn't been in today."
"Slacker."
So not quite everything is working. Yet.
263 words | April 1, 2005 10:24 PM | Ivory tower