It seems like a recurring thing every year around this time. I’m thinking about motorcycles again. I know we can’t afford one right now, but man would I love to have one. Anything from the little Honda Grom to a Victory 8 Ball, a Triumph America to a Suzuki TU250X. Oh to be on two wheels.
Some day.
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. It’s been wild and crazy busy for me at work and honestly, not a lot slower at home. So I’m glad it’s Friday. Time to get crackin’ on finishing up our firewood.
Lately I’ve been thinking about doing an Arduino or similar based project. I heard about the Digispark (which is basically a mini Arduino) from AwkwardEngineer.com and was intreagued. I’m thinking of using a Digispark to drive a I2C 4×7 segment display from Adafruit.com and having it calculate speed in KPH and distance in KM with a switch to toggle between the two. Input would be handled by a reed switch on the front fork and magnet on one of the spokes.
Should be pretty sweet. I think I can fit it in an old automotive preamp enclosure that I have kicking around…if not, maybe in the old 10mb switch enclosure I have.
I’ve been playing my guitar a lot more over the last year. I’ve been averaging learning 1 new song a week. When I say “learning” I mean, “I can play it with a lead sheet” rather than memorizing the song. All this playing has been on my acoustic. I don’t own an electric anymore as we sold both our electrics before our Son was born because we were short on cash. Though I don’t regret that decision (difficult at the time, but made sense), I do want another electric. I just don’t know what. I do know I want it to be reasonably affordable and made in North America. Here is the list I’ve come up with at this point (prices from Sweetwater.com and MusiciansFriend.com):
I guess I need to start saving up money and then trying out guitars!
It’s already past 90F outside here in Central Maine and it’s not even noon yet. It’s going to be a cooker. And humidity is really high, almost 60% in my house. No A/C means sitting under the fan drinking lots of water today. Hope everyone has a good 4th of July!
