Homebrew PCBs

The April 2009 issue of Circuit Cellar Magazine arrived yesterday,
and as is my usual habit, took it to bed with me to do a little 
pre-sleep reading.  I launched into an article titled "Construct a
USB GPIO Pod".   Great idea, a fine design, very well written, and
yet another good plug for open source and GNU-ish things for
Circuit Cellar.

What bothered me though was that I couldn't place the author.
My mind was in the context of hardware design, GNU tools 
and the like, but I just couldn't remember where I heard the
name before.

This morning, post-sunrise but pre-coffee (my most lucid hours)
it finally hit me as to exactly how I knew the name, "DJ Delorie".

(DJ please don't tell me you've been writing for CC for years
or I'll feel even more of a fool.)

Cheers, and thanks for the article.
Mike

Mike Schoenborn <rtfm@...> writes:
> The April 2009 issue of Circuit Cellar Magazine arrived yesterday,
> and as is my usual habit, took it to bed with me to do a little 
> pre-sleep reading.  I launched into an article titled "Construct a
> USB GPIO Pod".   Great idea, a fine design, very well written, and
> yet another good plug for open source and GNU-ish things for
> Circuit Cellar.

*blush*

Interesting fact - all the boards shown in that article (and part 2
next month) were home-brewed :-)  (there, it's on-topic again ;)

The main GPIO board is the four-layer home-brew board I talked about
back then.

> This morning, post-sunrise but pre-coffee (my most lucid hours)
> it finally hit me as to exactly how I knew the name, "DJ Delorie".

Yes, it was I.

> (DJ please don't tell me you've been writing for CC for years
> or I'll feel even more of a fool.)

This is my second article, ever.  The first was for my alarm clock
last year that was on the cover of #216:
http://www.delorie.com/electronics/alarmclock/

Next month will be my third, and I have no plans for more at this
time.  The only other article of my recent exploits is this one:
http://www.industrial-embedded.com/articles/id/?3714

> Cheers, and thanks for the article.

You're welcome!

> Mike Schoenborn wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> What bothered me though was that I
> couldn't place the author.  My mind
> was in the context of hardware design,
> GNU tools and the like, but I just
> couldn't remember where I heard the
> name before.
> 
> This morning, post-sunrise but pre-
> coffee (my most lucid hours) it
> finally hit me as to exactly how I
> knew the name, "DJ Delorie".
>
> <SNIP>

Oh how soon people forget DJGPP