Amphibious Thoughts

I should apologize for my long blogging abstinence, especially since no blogging usually means all the more has happened.

I was extremely busy with my new job at KOMA, learning a lot at the same time. I tried to attend an online electronics engineering class of MIT at the same time, but I had to let that go because my time didn’t suffice to make up for all the math I would have had to relearn to understand what they were talking about.

Meanwhile I continued to work on the new Diskokugel board. Christian sent me a schematic using a BT4863 as amplifier. The ones he got are a smd chips, so I redesigned the whole board for the use of smd parts. I sent the result to Christian and maybe we get to test it this weekend.

It was my first project using Kicad instead of EAGLE for circuit board design. We use Kicad at work and I actually found it better to use than EAGLE, even though I had to run it on a virtual Linux because I was to lazy to compile the latest source for Mac.

On other news: the CNC project is delayed until further notice due to missing resources (meaning time and motivation). My work at KOMA inspired me to do more with music again, which led to the idea to build a dub delay and a modular OSC controller. Let’s see what happens there. Actually, I wish these new ideas would stop so I get to finish some of the stuff done that I came up with in the past…

Greetings from Thailand! Live long and prosper!

And what did you do today?

It’s been a while since my last post, so i think you deserve a little update on my where- and whatabouts.

After spending most of the summer doing technical coordination for the [Festival Über Lebenskunst] I went directly to helping the team of Tomas Saraceno set up his exhibition at [Hamburger Bahnhof], Berlin. I really enjoyed that, Tomas having a nice team and his works keep impressing and inspiring me.

Right now, badly in need of a job to earn as much as I can before going to Thailand in January, I started a soldering job at [Koma Elektronik], helping them to assemble their circuit boards .

Of course, I kept working on the [Diskokugel], trying to improve the circuit. Read more about that [here]. I also contemplated some on my actual intentions with this object. I will share that with you soon.

And, to make things worse, I got inspired by an [instructable] to build my own CNC-mill. That is just another example of how I constantly underestimate the time and effort (and money) of the tasks I keep imposing on me. I’ve already invested 3 weeks into it without any visible result and I keep going… Il post some pictures soon, however.

On other news: Halloween came and after laughing my ass off watching this [cookie monster video] repeatedly, I had to refer to it with my costume for the annual party in Frankfurt.

God's away on bizniz...

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