Moving forwards

So, quite a lot of excitement the last few days, thank you everyone for your comments here and at all the sites that picked up on the project post. It was nice to hear back from so many of my fellow geeks, with mostly words of praise and encouragement. I'll probably post a screenshot of the site statistics later showing the great leap in hits, but for now I wanted to talk about some other stuff going on.


I am now done with my junior year at Clarkson, I turned in my last assignment a few hours ago and things are slowing down. I intend to have dinner with some good friends tonight, since I will not be seeing them for the summer, or perhaps longer (KC9OPU I'm looking at you!) and then tomorrow morning I have more stuff to take care of.


Speaking of, tomorrow will hopefully be the day we sign a lease for an apartment in Rome, we're renning a little shy on time and I'm getting nervous we won't find a place in time for our May 18th Start Date at AIS. That would be a shame because I'm very excited for that job and want to start as soon as possible. The job itself is going well as far as I can tell, all my paperwork has been submitted and the ball is rolling on my security clearance. Soon I should have my temporary clearance, so a more thorough investigation can be launched to get my permanent clearance.


In other news, Doug and Allen and I have been discussing some interesting possibilities for continuing the work on our project, and we might just surprise everyone this summer :) Keep a watch out here.


Also I've decided that I'm sick of moving the cable for my stereo between computers, and I need a project to build before I go nuts, so I sketched up a simple mixer circuit for two audio inputs with volume control for each channel, I will be ordering the parts and playing with it soon, but right now the component values aren't even in place. Here is a preliminary schematic, and I'd like to say, I may have been half asleep when I designed the power supply, since there's no reason for it to have an op-amp in it, when I could just use a 7805 as a friend suggested. So that's probably getting updated, but here is what I have so far:

And just for the fun of it, here is the PCB layout, also in progress:

So this project seems like it could be fun, it'll be pretty cheap and it's been a while since I built anything in the analog domain, mostly I do digital stuff, it's way easier... for me anyway :)

That's about all for now, catch you later.