Month September 2021

Floppy Emu Model C in dual 5.25 mode

Floppy Emu Update: Smartport and More

Hello! I’m Alice, the engineering intern here at Big Mess o’ Wires. I’m a math with computer science major at UC San Diego, and throughout the summer I’ve been working on some fixes and improvements for BMOW products. I started…

Daisy Chainer in its acrylic case

New Cases for the Daisy Chainer!

Hello! If you haven’t met me already, I’m Alice, the BMOW engineering intern. (You might hear more about what I’ve been up to soon.) I’m excited to share that after several stages of redesign, cases for the Daisy Chainer are…

Yellowstone front view

Yellowstone 2.2 First Look

Yellowstone version 2.2 is up and running! If you don’t remember what’s changed in v2.2, well… that makes two of us. Luckily we can both go read this August 20 post for a reminder. Hand assembly took about two hours,…

Testing For Short Circuits

I’m still working on the design for an automated Yellowstone tester. The general idea is to use an STM32 microcontroller that’s connected to all the Yellowstone board’s I/O signals, then drive the inputs in various combinations and verify the outputs.…

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