The next few months...

[JKnightandKARR]

Looks good. Sadly I don't have the option to hang stuff on walls really... corner desk so can't access that area. Lol

[Chris Savage]

I got the desk shelves installed tonight.


Got the tracks installed.


Added the shelves and some of the stuff that used to be on these shelves at the apartment.


After that I decided to add the anti-static mat to the bench so I could get the test equipment shelf ready as well.

[JKnightandKARR]

Nice

[Chris Savage]

Nice

It's getting there. I have another set of shelves to install on the opposite wall tonight. More parts cabinets will be going on those shelves. I do have one MINOR concern...I have one of those "lift" type desks that I will be using for my soldering station. The reason I chose it is because I often like to bring my work up closer to my face when I am soldering, rather than hunching over.

My concern is something I was remembering when I first got it together and was showing my wife. I hit the first "preset" button and nothing happened. That's because the desk was already at that position. When I hit the second preset (there are 3), the desk lifted up about a foot or so. Seemed good for standing. But when I hit the 3rd preset button, the desk lifted much higher than I thought it could go. Like, probably standing position for someone who is 7' tall! 

My concern is that, if there were ever a power glitch (like a brown-out), the controller might reset and try to lift the desk all the way up and knock my shelves right off the wall! As unlikely as it may seem, it is still a possibility and the more I think about it, the more I am inclined NOT to use that desk for my soldering bench. 

THIS CAN ALSO HAPPEN! 
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[Chris Savage]

Well, I didn't get that last wall of shelving done over the last two days. Instead I did some updates to the media rack in the office. Specifically, I added another NAS drive dedicated to streaming TV / MOVIES and I removed the secondary UPS. It was only there because all the power adapters couldn't plug into the back of the UPS, but I solved that using two of these, from Amazon.

[JKnightandKARR]

Whatever works. Lol I might build a custom power strip into my desk when i get it done

[Chris Savage]

The workshop is coming together nicely! Check out the updates on the Office Evolution 2024 blog article.

[Commander Data]

d00d you've been busy! sorry i haven't been around lately i got a really big project and haven't even been gaming for months!!! not sleeping much lately and in fact it is now after 1am!!! nice to see you getting things back together. good luck!!!

[Chris Savage]

d00d you've been busy! sorry i haven't been around lately i got a really big project and haven't even been gaming for months!!! not sleeping much lately and in fact it is now after 1am!!! nice to see you getting things back together. good luck!!!

I don't know HOW I missed this message. I was just about to update this thread and realized you were the last poster. Yeah, been busy. Almost completely done with the Workshop. Very little left to do to be able to get going again. In the mean time I have been working on website updates and sorting parts.

On the house I've been doing electrical work. Smart home stuff. For example, it gets dark early now, so dark when I get home. I don't want to leave my back porch light on all day, so I swapped out the switch for a smart switch and programmed it to come on every day 15 minutes before dusk and turn off 15 minutes after dawn. So now I don't come home to a dark driveway and porch.

That inspired me to do the same thing with the front porch, but on a different schedule. Amazon delivers as late as 10P (I've had that happen many times). I have a sign asking for packages to be put inside the front porch, however it's very dark out there, so the front porch light comes on 15 minutes before dusk, but then turns off at 10:15PM each night.

Finally, there was one more little convenience that I wanted to take care of. I get up during the night at least 2 or 3 times to use the bathroom (diabetes). I'm practically on auto-pilot, but I still have to turn on the bathroom light and it's not in a convenient place. I have to walk into the bathroom past the toilet and then on the wall behind it is three switches. The right switch is the main light, though I often miss it and hit the middle switch, which is the exhaust fan and dim light over the shower. Finally, there is a third switch on the left which turns on a heater inside the exhaust fan so when you get out of the shower, you don't get a chill.

I replaced all three standard switches. The left one is still a toggle switch, but a wide one that matches the other two. The center switch has been replaced with an Eaton Fan Timer. Now I don't accidentally leave the exhaust fan running all day. The main light switch is now a motion-sensing smart-switch with three schedules.

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From 7:00AM to 4:30PM it works manually. You push the button to turn the light on / off. From 4:30PM to 10:00PM you can still use it manually, but if it senses motion and it's dark, it comes on automatically at 75% brightness. If you forget to turn it off, it shuts off after 2 minutes of no motion. Finally, from 10:00PM to 7:00AM it works the same, except that it comes on at 8% brightness. LED lights are VERY bright, so this solves three issues for me. Anyway...

Oh! One cool thing that I am super excited about was that I recently realized I had the text and code for a few tutorials that needed to be restored, but the photos are long gone. This means taking new photos, but I no longer have a PPDB, which was used in some of these tutorials. So I posted this thread on the Parallax forums. For a while I didn't really get anything, but now I have a new condition PPDB on it's way from a very generous person who gave me a great deal (especially being international). Add to that parts I got from a member on here and that's about a dozen articles I can restore. Super excited!