Monday: PCBs, Cigars…

After a few hiccups that were totally my fault, I've finished-up the PCB for my "io Super-Distortion." Man oh man, CadSoft's Eagle is a sweet program! Anyway, I took a couple of screen shots of the finished board since I'm somewhat proud of this layout. In the first shot, you can see the top (red) and bottom (blue) traces and the component locations — everything in grey — which will be silkscreened onto the board:

In this next shot, you can see the massive ground plane I was able to place. This will help with RF interference and other potential noise.

I'm going to get just a couple fabricated at first, just to make sure everything is in the clear — then I'll be able to get these suckers mass-fabricated and save myself untold amounts of time. SWEET!

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I have recently became a fan of Romeo y Julieta cigars, and now that my humidor is starting to thin out, I snagged myself a box of Romeo y Julieta Habana Reserve Toros. These have a Nicaraguan wrapper and binder, and use Honduran and Nicaraguan filler — so these promise to be a nice, full-bodied smoke.

There's just nothing like sitting out on the patio in the peace and quiet of the evening, enjoying a fine cigar.

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It just hit me this morning that it's going to be 4 months — four months — until I get my new guitar. I could lose an arm between now and then! Man, that stinks.

Posted by on 05/12 at 01:43 PM

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