Quote from: granz on Jul 28, 2026, 06:32 PMYeah, unfortunately my pain saps away my energy, so I am constantly exhausted. Retirement was pretty much forced on me.

Some days are harder than others for me...but I am stubborn.

Quote from: zappman on Jul 28, 2026, 10:30 PMIt did 42,389 captures between 11 Oct 2015 - 17 Jun 2025, that must have been part of what ate up all the forums available bandwidth, and why I had limit access to only logged in users.

Holy $hit!   

That's crazy! Ironically the Wayback Machine hardly touched my old website, meaning I can't recover most of what I lost. But you may be able to now.

Quote from: zappman on Jul 28, 2026, 10:22 PM

Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jul 28, 2026, 08:31 PM

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 28, 2026, 11:23 AMI still haven't heard back from T&L Publications on what's happening with my next three articles, but once I do, I will follow up here. I've had to "rebuild" the prototype of the mousetrap to verify the schematic, since that information was lost years ago. Reminds me of how much fun I had building that.

I know the feeling... The Internet Archive has Zappbots on file, sadly can't access anything due to it wanting log-in...

Well you I think you figured out what was the cause of the ORIGINAL down fall of the ZappBots Forums back around the year 2021. It seems it was the "@#$%^&*()" Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

It did 42,389 captures between 11 Oct 2015 - 17 Jun 2025, that must have been part of what ate up all the forums available bandwidth, and why I had limit access to only logged in users.

See this link:https://web.archive.org/web/20210801150507/https://zappbots.altervista.org/forum/index.php?sid=9cc4dd41467542fe523aecad8b2f5924

Look at the top left corner of the page shown in the above link.

Some Forum Posts are available and visible on the Internet Archive, such as the post at the link below:
Creality3D Ender-5 DIY 3D Printer Kit
"from  Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:39 pm"

THANKS!  I'll get my project files.

EDIT: They didn't back up my thread..... ROTF guess jokes on me..... Oh well..... Thanks anyhow.... I can recreate stuff.

Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jul 28, 2026, 08:31 PM

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 28, 2026, 11:23 AMI still haven't heard back from T&L Publications on what's happening with my next three articles, but once I do, I will follow up here. I've had to "rebuild" the prototype of the mousetrap to verify the schematic, since that information was lost years ago. Reminds me of how much fun I had building that.

I know the feeling... The Internet Archive has Zappbots on file, sadly can't access anything due to it wanting log-in...

Well you I think you figured out what was the cause of the ORIGINAL down fall of the ZappBots Forums back around the year 2021. It seems it was the "@#$%^&*()" Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

It did 42,389 captures between 11 Oct 2015 - 17 Jun 2025, that must have been part of what ate up all the forums available bandwidth, and why I had limit access to only logged in users.

See this link:https://web.archive.org/web/20210801150507/https://zappbots.altervista.org/forum/index.php?sid=9cc4dd41467542fe523aecad8b2f5924

Look at the top left corner of the page shown in the above link.

Some Forum Posts are available and visible on the Internet Archive, such as the post at the link below:
Creality3D Ender-5 DIY 3D Printer Kit
"from  Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:39 pm"

Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jul 28, 2026, 08:31 PM

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 28, 2026, 11:23 AMI still haven't heard back from T&L Publications on what's happening with my next three articles, but once I do, I will follow up here. I've had to "rebuild" the prototype of the mousetrap to verify the schematic, since that information was lost years ago. Reminds me of how much fun I had building that.

I know the feeling... The Internet Archive has Zappbots on file, sadly can't access anything due to it wanting log-in...

Well you I think you figured out what was the cause of the ORIGINAL down fall of the ZappBots Forums back around the year 2021. It seems it was the "@#$%^&*()" Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

It did 42,389 captures between 11 Oct 2015 - 17 Jun 2025, that must have been part of what ate up all the forums available bandwidth, and why I had limit access to only logged in users.

See this link:https://web.archive.org/web/20210801150507/https://zappbots.altervista.org/forum/index.php?sid=9cc4dd41467542fe523aecad8b2f5924

Look at the top left corner of the page shown in the above link.

Some Forum Posts are available and visible on the Internet Archive, such as the post at the link below:
Creality3D Ender-5 DIY 3D Printer Kit
"from  Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:39 pm"

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 28, 2026, 08:24 AMThat's why my original tag line for 20 years was, "I'm only responsible for what I say, not what you understand." 

P.S. - One of the things I appreciate about The Big Bang Theory is that they always tried to keep the science stuff discussed on there accurate. They hired consultants to evaluate the science to "get it right."

Quote from: granz on Jul 28, 2026, 07:46 AMI think that the "Sheldon part" is that Chris likes to explain things that other people find hard to understand.

Got it. lol

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 28, 2026, 11:25 AM

Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jul 24, 2026, 08:52 PMI know the feeling all too well....

Well, I've spent the last few days clearing the bench off even further, putting things away, etc. I have several projects that will be back on the bench ASAP once I get the okay for the next three articles. There are two more that are a bigger priority, but will be realized in concurrence with the three I mentioned.

I need to get my desk top finished so i can sort my desk out

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 28, 2026, 11:23 AMI still haven't heard back from T&L Publications on what's happening with my next three articles, but once I do, I will follow up here. I've had to "rebuild" the prototype of the mousetrap to verify the schematic, since that information was lost years ago. Reminds me of how much fun I had building that.

I know the feeling... The Internet Archive has Zappbots on file, sadly can't access anything due to it wanting log-in...

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 28, 2026, 11:20 AMIn all fairness, one of the three primary reasons I chose Bambu Lab 3D Printers was the ability to control and monitor remotely using the Smart Phone App (Bambu Handy). Every morning I set the printers up before I leave, so they're ready for what I send to them. It's a convenient arrangement.

That certainly does sound like a cool idea. That is in my project list. Right now, I try to set up my printer every time, immediately after removing a print job, so that it is ready for my next print. A big motivator for doing that is so that, at some time in the future, I can send jobs from my phone.

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 28, 2026, 11:20 AMP.S. - Despite being in chronic pain every day of my life, I have far too much energy to retire. I would go stir crazy! 

Yeah, unfortunately my pain saps away my energy, so I am constantly exhausted. Retirement was pretty much forced on me.

Did you ever get your assembly learning going on the Z80?