The good news: I'm just about over the creeping crud.
The usual news: a project went into total-panic mode this morning. I hastened to order the necessary materials for the first unit, but, since the CNC guy is booked solid this week, I decided it'll be faster & easier to spend a day at the Bridgeport than to find another CNC shop and get up to speed with them.
So, once the raw materials arrive, I'll have a bunch more to do on that project, in a roaring hurry. Meanwhile, I need to generate a set of prints to work from....
(Dang. And now it occurs to me that, while I ordered some fresh taps, I neglected to order nice fresh sharp drills of the corresponding sizes. Oh, well... those can be bought locally easily enough, should the need arise.)
And, taking a break from this, I nipped out to Weird Stuff to spend $3.28 on a vital piece of test equipment, to wit, a four-port 10Base-T hub. With a button to swap the direction of port 4.
And, using this newly-acquired item, I confirmed that autonegotiation works as advertised on the LPC2387 + whatever PHY is on the eval board + the AGROS driver. I'd tested with fast Ethernet, both half- and full-duplex, and now I've tested low speed and direction swapping, and I can ping the board in all tested configurations.
So there's one little thing ticked off the to-do list, anyway.
And now, back to the 3-D electronic drawing board, to start converting my lovely 3-D model into 2-D drawings suitable for working from.
Soon, the prototype hardware for Project Egbert should be turning up, and then I'll be plenty busy with that. Getting that prototype built has been several panics in its own right.
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