If we didn't have bad luck... (Patreon)

We'd have no luck at all.

Sincere apologies for the radio silence recently, we've both been working through some issues externally as well as a boat load of issues in the shed. I'm not going to pretend that those shed bound issues are not almost wholly self inflicted but that's as maybe.

In exciting and somewhat unexpected news, the bulk of the instruments are now finished and working. We (Nik) decided it would be fun and useful to explode the expensive new Link CAN gauge and try to incorporate it into the rev-counter. Can you imagine the arse that entailed? No, you can't. Two broken screens and a short-sharp lesson in SPI and ribbon cabling and a boat load of design, trial and mostly error - it's only bloody working! We had to swap the expensive REV counter for an expensive speedo, (which works in a similar way so can be used as a rev-counter) in order to give us the window to see the CAN display. The speedo uses the window to display the mileage and trip information.

Thanks to Ian Katz for the assistance in Arduino programming we have communication between the two and they do what's expected of them. It's very cool.

Only today we realised that we're not the same people as we were a year ago and a lot of the design that's baked into the board would be different if we started again now - but we're absolutely NOT doing that.

It's been a horrible experience at times as well as embarrassing and hugely costly. On the plus side - we're now nearly done - I know I've said that before and I've genuinely believed it every time only for the universe to decide otherwise and throw us under the bus. For our own sanity, this exercise in futility has to come to a successful conclusion, it HAS to.

Binky will be back, we refuse to submit to the universe's desire for us to pack it all in and if we do our job right, I think the result will be pretty bloody amazing.

Thanks to all of you who are still with us - you clearly have the patience of saints and it's impossible to overstate our appreciation.

Next time you hear from us will be Binky Episode 39; it's closer than you might think.

Cheers,

Nik and Richard.