We're just over a week into the 2021 MLB season.

Who's your favorite to win it all this year?

How do you think your team is going to do this year?

Hy people. Last week we had plus 25 degrees Celsius / 77 ° F to 0 degrees C / 32 ° F, how is the weather with you?

lg Tc4me

I wish you all and your families a Happy Easter, stay healthy and happy

lg Tc4me & Family

The fourteenth annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2, 2021.

Joined by the international community, hundreds of thousands of landmarks, buildings, homes and communities around the world come together on April 2, Autism Awareness Day, to Light It Up Blue in recognition of people with autism and those who love and support them.


https://www.autismspeaks.org/world-autism-awareness-day

Has anybody here played Banished? 



If you haven't played this, it's a city-building strategy game, developed by Shining Rock Software. You start a settlement, and you need to manage its limited resources carefully, and handle challenges such as famines, natural disasters and an aging population. However, should you succeed at managing these issues, the town will grow and, eventually, prosper. 

I haven't played it yet, but it seems to be right up by street, and the Steam reviews look very good - so, I'm pretty certain that I'm going to get it  . 

What about you?

My career aspirations were always clear, either a car mechanic or a cook :-) doesn't fit together at all, but that's how I wanted it. At the age of 14 I already had 2 apprenticeships, an apprenticeship as a cook at the Intercontinentel Hotel or a mechanic apprenticeship in your 5-man workshop at home around the corner. My friend, who was a cook at Intercont, then advised me not to study in a large kitchen. So I became a car mechanic and a car electrician. I have never given up my cooking desires, I already cooked food when I was 10 years old, and so I have been doing it as a hobby of bakeries and cooking for more than 40 years. I also liked to cook and bake at the fire brigade, and always according to feeling, never according to recipe. How are you guys? Do you cook and bake too? lg Tc4me

Please make your selection or the Member of the Month for March 2021.

This vote is to recognize members for their contributions for the month the award is named. In this case, a user's contributions for the month of March 2021 led to their nomination for the March Member of the Month.

The poll is anonymous, and no one will see your vote. Poll ends 6 April.

Member of the Month candidates:

@Kyng 
@tc4me
@zoldos

NOTE: Partly because I am a slacker and wasn't around for the last week to post nominations, and because its been a slow month in general, I just pulled the 3 most-active users to choose from.

Discord and Microsoft Said to Discuss Deal That Could Top $10 Billion

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/techn...-deal.html

Good Morning, I was busy with the Myalert notification today, and what bothers me is the display in the Alert (0) header, there shouldn't be a bracket and number, and if there is a message, then not such a stupid bracket with number
That's why I found some things in Mybb and changed them to that

You need to look at the template in ACP> Templates & Style> Templates (left bar)> * YOUR THEME *> MyAlerts Templates> myalerts_headericon.

replace content by this

Finally decided to make a new Project Journal since I came across what should be an interesting challenge.

I recently got for free an ADC S-1 MKII, vintage circa mid to late 70's, maybe early 80's.

was pretty beat up, but was intact otherwise.

side note, this unit goes for anywhere between $40 and up to $70 working.



it's not even a full featured one as it has only 5 rather than 10 sliders per channel but it'd be a fun restoration nonetheless.

Here's the unit as I got it.





Pretty beat up but the internals are hopeful and the potentiometers for the frequency adjustments slide smoothly, likely just need a good cleaning and a bit of silicone grease to lubricate them.

part of my plan is to replace the wood part of the case by fabricating a new one, it's just a simple 3 sided box with a lip on one side to attach to, should be able to come up with something and either paint it or leave it with a nice wood grain finish.





also going to change a couple minor things to update it a bit and make it easier to service in the future.

here's the power supply which I'll likely need to replace due to it's age.



so a few things of note.

several capacitors have started leaking though the traces are not on the capacitor side so that's good news, means there may not be any damaged traces.

(edited, yes there's no obviously damaged traces, it's a single layer board, hand drawn too by the looks of it).

at least 3 resistors are damaged, and all components are still available except for the transistors but I can get them pretty easily on ebay if needed.

when I get the chance to go over everything I'm going to write up a component list and try to reverse engineer the circuit as I go along with my multimeter as well as note which components are faulty, that'll be the next update.

I'm super glad I didn't plug it in to test it first given the state the components are in, but I can fix it for less than it's worth

oh! and it has all the slider knobs btw!



they just need a good soak in some warm soapy water and an air dry.

Update:



the wires are fairly short so I'm going to need to note which ones go to which pins (which are numbered!!!!), De Solder them, Then Remove the board

The great news is, it's a single layer board, the components are mounted opposite the traces so nothing was damaged by the leaky capacitors near as I can tell.

Definitely 1970's.

the traces are not electronically drawn, they're curved instead of straight angles which is a pretty solid indicator.

The good news is, that makes reverse engineering it easier since being single layer and hand drawn means you can visually connect what pins on what components go where.

the pins themselves are marked on the side they sit on so this should be pretty easy once I de solder the wires holding it in place.