This was a bad week for electronics.  I bricked my Atmega 128 development board, and I also discovered that I had ordered the wrong low pass filter.  The IC was $10, and it was supposed to be a DIP8-easily accessible for development.  Oops.  I accidentally ordered an SOIC chip.

Last night I was in The Secret Laboratory, trying to get something done.  After some very fine soldering, I failed to thaw out my bricked development board.  Next I decided to try building an adapter board for the low pass filter.  I had already created the photo mask, but this would be the first time I tried to use the photo-lithography method of creating a board.

Velum makes a good printing medium (especially if you have a laser printer) because it resists crinkling and warping.  My first three attempts failed to produce useable boards, though.  At 10:30PM I gave up and went upstairs to see what Aimee was doing.  She was sleeping.

Since I've been having a difficult time sleeping lately, I did what any other bored...

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