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About that BusBoard Prototype Systems SB4 board -- they're expensive. They're more than $6 each (Canadian) plus shipping from DigiKey. They're $10 each plus shipping from Mouser.

That's a lot for a hobbyist when you're experimenting, especially if you're making mistakes.

I looked around again recently, and couldn't find anything I liked at a reasonable price point.

So what does one do in this situation? Well, if you go Overkill 9000, you design your own prototyping perfboard and have a bunch manufactured for you! When you design your own, you can give it any features you like. So this one has:

18 x 36 (648 holes total)

It's two 18 x 18 sections, though I didn't have them scored for snapping.

A total of 6 horizontal busses in groups of 2, at the top and bottom plus one in the middle.

3 sets of 2 vertical busses within that space between horizontal bus sets, similarly edge - center - edge.

Then each row has a 6-hole pad on each side of the center 2 busses, which are spaced for IC or other standard 0.4" component layout.

Made of proper FR4 fiberglass. Good copper, good soldermask.

Silkscreened row and column IDs on both the front and back, at both the start and end of each row/column (and they match up with the back...).

And silkscreened boxes on the front showing the pad/buss pattern - no more flipping!

They arrived today and ... they're beautiful.

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The great battle of meta tags and #Plex continues to rage. Two bands both named #Overkill in one folder. Change one to Overkill L.A. and move to a folder called Overkill L.A., refresh metadata nope, update library nope, still in with Overkill. Remove OverkillLA files and folder out of where Plex finds music, update library. Then add them back, update library and adds them back to Overkill even though the artist tags are Overkill L.A. Ideas?

As a longtime professional exaggerator, I have to laugh how flatschmucks try so hard to make their humdrum feel special in a way that just saps language of real highs and lows. Something unusual? "Insane!" Something good? "Amaaazing!" Something relatively common? "Iconic!" Busy place? "Vibrant!"

It's all those things "designed" for children by injecting bright clashing colors, as if that'll be enough to hide the cheap truth.

I have no crystal ball, though I'm starting to get a strong sense of his "concept of a plan."

🍊 and his secret club are going to go all in on The Great Rewire.

They're going to have the working class build it AND pay for it.

Upon its completion, they'll flip the switch that makes humans useless and celebrate with the largest fireworks display the planet has ever seen.

Unfortunately, it'll be the last Grand Finale for anyone not tucked away in an island fortress bunker like Z-Man in Hawaii.

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@mthie Das ist leider nicht nur ein Nerd-Konferenzen-Phänomen.
Ich denke es hat etwas damit zu tun, dass wir uns vor lauter (oft sinnlosem) Input kaum noch fühlen. Interesse, Verbindlichkeit, Verlässlichkeit… das alles ist zwischen ständigem Spam verloren gegangen. #Overkill