It’s been about 5 days since I did any work on the K1. This time of year it’s important to keep the family happy, and that means lots and lots of Christmas decorations. I hate the thought of landfilling the many sets of lights we use each year, so I insist on repairing them. This year I replaced several hundred lamps, which occupied my time for several days. But the lights are up, the house is festive, and my time is my own again.
Today I began the assembly of the K1 RF board. I estimate that this one card is about half the total assembly effort — lots of parts. But I surprised myself today by spending about 70 minutes to install 40 components; under 2 min/part. When I did the inventory of the RF board parts, the tiny caps were a devil to read, so after accounting for each one, I put them into individually labeled bags. I still verify them, but at least I don’t have to look through dozens of identical looking caps to find the one I need. And I discovered that the resistors, which had been sequenced on tape as if for automatic assembly, were in the order that they are installed.
