Thought today was snapshot worthy. Here is my lab as it stands at the end of 2023:
And this is what my lab looked like two years ago, when it began:
The lab upgrade is going fairly well. I have to say I’m a bit impatient for my ‘verve‘ hardware to arrive. The CPU is here, just waiting for the case, PSU, and RAM. And one of the PCIe adapters.
That bunch of cables on the floor is roughly where ‘verve’ will go when it gets here and has been assembled.
Man, my lab is in disarray. I’m getting ready to welcome my new computer ‘verve‘. Had to recable pretty much everything.
As part of today’s updating of my Patreon page and my YouTube branding I took new photos of the lab, you can see them over here: https://www.jj5.net/lab/
This evening I reviewed and updated the documentation about the equipment in my lab.
Updated the photos of my lab. How many cameras can you see?
So I installed this shelf. It’s the black wiry thing:
But it was a bit of an ordeal. I managed to snap not one, but *two* screws while bolting it in.
The drill bit on the left was a casualty of trying to repair the mess. One screw shaft was irredeemably stuck in the wood, I couldn’t get it out. The other one I needed to drill around to get it out, it was stuck hard. Then I just plugged the hole I had created with craft sticks and hot glue, then tried again.
The spirit level says I did a fairly reasonable job of it: