Subj : Re: Quarantine projects
To   : Dr. What
From : Moondog
Date : Thu Mar 26 2020 18:51:00

  Re: Re: Quarantine projects
  By: Dr. What to Moondog on Thu Mar 26 2020 10:38 am

 > -=> Moondog wrote to All <=-
 > 
 >  Mo> For those who are considered non-essential or cannot partake in normal
 >  Mo> communi ty events, what have you been doing to stay occupied?
 > 
 > Not a whole lot since I am working from home.
 > 
 > But that does let me work on low bandwidth projects.
 > 
 > 1. The new server.  I picked up a Raspberry Pi rack from etsy and I am setti
 > it up with 2.5" hard drives and a couple Raspberry Pis.  So far, it seems to
 > working.
 > 
 > I can work on the Pis in between application builds.
 > 
 > 2. One of my non-computer hobbies is renovating old Tonka/Buddy L trucks.  I
 > have 2 plain ones that have been sitting around for a while and am going to
 > finish them up to give to a co-worker who recently had a kid.
 > 
 > It only takes a few minutes to put on a coat of paint then I have to wait - 
 > work.
 > 
 > 
 > Unfortunately, my workspace it taken up with my daily work.  So playing with
 > new birthday present (a fancy desoldering tool) has to be put on hold.
 > 
 > And I had to put my TRS-80 Model 4P on the shelf to make room on the desk.  
 > playing with that's on hold.
 > 
 > I'm getting a Tandy 1400LT today.  We'll see about that.
 > 
 > ... Computer Hacker wanted. Must have own axe.


The Tandy sounds like fun.  I've been watching Adrian Blacks' Youtube channel
and he has shown some cool Tandy videos.

Recently I picked up a Pi 4 and considered moving over several tasks I use an 
Athlon X2 5000 for. It's my previous main system and it's running Ubuntu and
acts as a file share, document scanning station, and runs Guitarix well
enough with low latency. While I'll probably keep using the 5000 for heavier
tasks, I could get by with using a Pi for document scanning and things I
wantto keep off my Win10 box.

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