On Tuesday 1/23 I developed a fever and went to the local emergency room, where they quickly started testing for the cause of the fever.
I was very frustrated being stuck there for so long, but was finally release on Friday 1/27.
Needless to say, there are hundreds of emails to go there any probably new orders. Depending on my muscle strength, production of new boards will return this weekend.
Sorry about that. Oh, the hospital has not determined what caused the infection yet.
Bob
A one person company has to balance construction of products, testing, order processing and support questions. For me, I have the added issue of on-going medical issues.
During the last month orders were very slow and I was able to build up inventory again, but this week there have been multiple orders every day, most of the inventory being spoken for.
To make matters worse I appear to have done lots of muscle damage for no obvious reason. My right arm is mostly unusable right now so soldering is extremely difficult. My wife keeps trying procedures to reduce the pain but it is still very difficult to work. Anything involving a mouse or typing is done only with my left hand… very awkward!
Right now orders are very backed up and probably will be for several weeks until my right arm is working again.
The only good news is that I have updated documentation and schematics for the SD Card shield and KIM Clone I/O Rev 6. That kind of stuff is easy to with with one hand. Updates will be posted later this week.
Updates to KIM Clone I/O board and KIM Clone Prototype boards! Minor changes, but changes nonetheless.
One of my customers noted that the labels for signals on the prototype board were upside down when the board was plugged into the KIM Clone. For some reason I never noticed it, but he was definitely correct! So the rev 3 board fixes that problem:
When the board is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise all the labels will be facing the right way.
BTW I have a bunch of the rev 2 bare boards. If anyone is interested in getting some, very cheaply, let me know and we can certainly work out a deal!
The minor changes to this board were driven by my desires. Rev 6 boards have one big improvement and some minor changes:
The 19200 baud was for one of my projects… adding an Atari SIO connector so the KIM Clone can talk to old Atari 8 bit computer peripherals.
The oscillator footprint might seem odd, but this device/footprint is part of my CAD library and for years people have asked why the oscillator on any given board used either 8 or 14 pin packages. Well, new boards will have the new footprint and can support either.
