Anyway, Solderfest '05 was a huge success:
we got that thing cruising at about 1.3GHz, and stuffed it with a 256 DIMM of RAM, and some backlighting. It's running TI-Linux and plays DVD's.
Ok - some or all of that information may be somewhat exaggerated or opposite of truth. It took me mere minutes to lose one of the pad under the original capacitor, and it took the rest of the night to get over the denial of having no hope whatsoever to make it work. Oh, and in answer to the questions raised by the last post: they never used the red-hot catalytic butane inferno that is my soldering iron, but both Gary and Ben managed to burn themselves on the delicious Jalepeno&Cheddar poppers. I was unscathed.
Also, I'm going to Homecoming, I guess. It's hard to believe that it's senior year already, but it is, and I said I'd go, so let's just hope they play plenty of hip-hop and swing music.
I'm excited about spending the week working the cadence rather than the show (staying inside rather than freezing outside while moving heavy instruments baaaack and fooorth. Also, it's a cool cadence, and it'd be sweet if we could play it.
