Episode 39 - Dash Darn It!

Niek · Veteran Member

Episode 39 - Dash Darn It!

Forsh · Senior Member

Councillor Brunning has put himself up for local elections but says on TwiXer Binky 39 is very much in the edit and "not long off"

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Kirk · Senior Member

Maybe, just maybe, Rich will have more time available for video editing and car building in 3 weeks.

Edit: On reflection, perhaps that's a bit hard. His party's manifesto lost me in the 1st paragraph, but they at least attempt to make coherent arguments. Given the near universal disgust at the current lot of self-serving crooks (fancy a bet on the GE date anyone?), perhaps Rich will end up getting elected. A complete disaster for Episode 39 imho.

-- Edited by Kirk on Friday 14th of June 2024 12:39:15 PM

Dave Fleet · Member

Forsh wrote:
Councillor Brunning has put himself up for local elections but says on TwiXer Binky 39 is very much in the edit and "not long off"

To quote Pulp Fiction, " You came close but you never made it. And if you were gonna make it, you would have made it before now."

Dave Fleet · Member

Kirk wrote:
Maybe, just maybe, Rich will have more time available for video editing and car building in 3 weeks.
Edit: On reflection, perhaps that's a bit hard. His party's manifesto lost me in the 1st paragraph, but they at least attempt to make coherent arguments. Given the near universal disgust at the current lot of self-serving crooks (fancy a bet on the GE date anyone?), perhaps Rich will end up getting elected. A complete disaster for Episode 39 imho.

-- Edited by Kirk on Friday 14th of June 2024 12:39:15 PM

Well, he convinced 171 other people he would be a safe pair of hands.

GrayRaceCat · Senior Member

Dave Fleet wrote:
Well, he convinced 171 other people he would be a safe pair of hands.

For now, Richard will have one less distraction; I guess we're back to "business as usual."

I wonder, will the results dissuade him from running again?

For anyone interested, here is a link to the results: https://www.biggleswadetoday.co.uk/news/politics/mid-bedfordshire-2024-general-election-results-4691733

Kirk · Senior Member

I hope not. Even if I don't agree with all his party's policies, it is genuinely admirable to see someone backing up their views by standing for office. Except if it interrupts the internet's finest car build, of course. Then it's just daft.

Forsh · Senior Member

Kirk wrote:
Except if it interrupts the internet's finest car build, of course. Then it's just daft.

Sorry but I really don't see how it can have any effect on Freddy's P1 build wink

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Kirk · Senior Member

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bmwmaniac · Veteran Member

Are you blokes still beating this same dead horse

Kirk · Senior Member

Er, no. What are you beating?

Forsh · Senior Member

Well according to TwiXter the Arduino dash works and there's enough film in the can for the next 2 episodes and a Howie - so that's the next 3 years sorted!

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Kirk · Senior Member

I do love an optimist. Or was that an optometrist? One of those, certainly.

Forsh · Senior Member

That's definitely half full!...

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Grandell · Member

The problem isn't whether it's half full or half empty, it's that the glass is twice as big as it should be!

GrayRaceCat · Senior Member

Grandell wrote:
The problem isn't whether it's half full or half empty, it's that the glass is twice as big as it should be!

When it comes to ale, the glass is NEVER too big!

Kirk · Senior Member

I can't remember: Are there (dusty) half-full glass holders in Binky?

Dave Fleet · Member

The latest disingenuous post from Patreon - no wonder they are trying to get into politics.

Who's going to leap to their defence and begin to defend their hard-luck story?

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

Forsh · Senior Member

OH WOW!

Episode 39 just around the corner - That's great news!

Really looking forward to it!

Thanks for posting Dave! You're a star!

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Grandell · Member

I was thinking the exact same thing :D Come here bitching and moaning but actually all you've done it reignite our optimism

And who knows, maybe Lego Binky isn't dead in the water either? At least my hardest decisions will be deciding which printed gauge tile to use, rather than having to engineer it from scratch

Kirk · Senior Member

Thanks for the update Dave!

Dave Fleet · Member

Kirk wrote:
Thanks for the update Dave!

No problem guys! This is still the update of Episode 39 promised in November 2023 right? It's just around the corner! Almost ready! Just a couple of tweaks until it's done!

Face it, they can't get it to work and don't want to admit it. biggrin

Kirk · Senior Member

What's your hurry, Dave? It'll get done at some point and some of us will get a genuine feeling of happiness/pleasure as a result. In the meantime, between checking in here every so often, there are plenty of things to make/fix/finish/learn in my life. Where are you going with this?

GrayRaceCat · Senior Member

Kirk wrote: ... some of us will get a genuine feeling of happiness/pleasure as a result.

I suspect (am afraid?) that Dave has forgotten how to feel happiness/pleasure.

ahenry · Member

x.com/badobsessionmsp/status/1847686506921533871 says:

Rumours of our demise have been somewhat exaggerated. Episode 39 of Project Binky nearly killed us, but it's coming your way next Saturday.
6:09 PM · Oct 19, 2024

Forsh · Senior Member

Woo! and indeed Hoo!

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ahenry · Member

A rough cut of Episode 39 is available for Patreon supporters

Forsh · Senior Member

I'll bet Dave is counting down the hours till Friday night - Patreon's night!

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Forsh · Senior Member

oh and er... Dave! ... no spoilers before 19:00 Saturday for us non-patreotic heathens!

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Kirk · Senior Member

Not sure what all the fuss is about, Forsh. It's just another episode. It's not as though we haven't had 38 of them already.
I'm counting on there being at least one more due after my final hour (which I'm hoping will be many years from now).

There's also a new Kate Bush animation out, so it's a busy week.

Kirk · Senior Member

Well that was quite good. Not entirely sure why they reinvented prototyping but it's all getting there. I'm looking out for the solder extruder attachment for my Ender 3. Any day now. We're going to have to move to the Episode 40 thread soon too. That'll be weird.

GrayRaceCat · Senior Member

Kirk wrote:
Well that was quite good. Not entirely sure why they reinvented prototyping but it's all getting there. I'm looking out for the solder extruder attachment for my Ender 3. Any day now. We're going to have to move to the Episode 40 thread soon too. That'll be weird.

It was very good. Mrs. GRC and I both enjoyed it. As a PCB maker back in my salad days, I was very skeptical about the lads' approach to "printed" circuits. But now that they've said it is their version of breadboarding, the concept makes more sense. The easy revisions are a significant advantage. I hope they intend to use the final data files to have a PCB made.

-- Edited by GrayRaceCat on Monday 28th of October 2024 02:51:02 AM

Kirk · Senior Member

With you on that. I can't see how a board whose tracks can be peeled back with tweezers can survive the vibration of a car with very limited suspension travel.
I've been prototyping circuits for aircraft simulators so I appreciate the desire to test whether the "production" assembly meets tight space constraints, but you really can do this in much simpler and faster ways.

I do appreciate that it is a rabbit hole though. The further you go, and the more you learn, the more you realise that you can do with SBCs. It really was great to watch and I'm sure I'll find an excuse to watch the episode multiple times. (The gags alone justify that.)

Onward towards 40, eh?