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October, 2011

  1. Megasquirt finished

    October 17, 2011 by frank

    All done, need a 2nd cover for the db37 hole.
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    All done, need a 2nd cover for the db37 hole.

    Built the megasquirt this weekend.  The MS3 build is a lot easier than my previous MS2 builds.  With the MS3X, most of the extra circuits and flyback diodes can be omitted, greatly facilitating the build.  Again, I made the MS3 fully plug and play.  I really don’t like using extra wiring looms.  The 64pin connector has more than enough room to be put inside the case, so why make a wiring loom!
    Build instructions here.

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  2. Megasquirt is in the house!

    October 12, 2011 by frank

    MS3 + MS3X have arrived :)
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    MS3 + MS3X have arrived :)

    It took very long this time.  Nearly 3 weeks, but the Megasquirt finally arrived :) .

    Your item was delivered in BELGIUM at 10:22 am on October 12, 2011.
    Arrival at Post Office, October 12, 2011, 7:30 am, BELGIUM
    Customs clearance processing complete, October 11, 2011, 8:44 pm, BELGIUM

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  3. New website

    October 3, 2011 by frank

    Decided it was time to move to a new website.  The old site was made with Site@School but development of the software has stopped because of an arguement between the developers.  The main developer decided to release a fork (SyndeoCMS), but he made a new album module and I didn’t like it.  I lost a lot of pictures converting to SyndeoCMS and had to redo quite a bit to get the site going again.
    Site@School is completely dead by now, so there was no point in going on with that CMS.

    I’ve now choosen for WordPress 3.  I had a lot of work transferring my build diary to the WordPress, but at least I now have a mature CMS.  I’m also using a wonderful plugin (Shashin) that allows me to insert my Picasa albums in my website.  All pictures you see on my website are hosted on Picasa, they don’t take up space on my host!  The beauty about it is that all captions I made in Picasa, are visible on my website as well.  With the old CMS, I had to write them in the database, with the result that they’re all gone once I switched to WordPress.

    The one downside to using WordPress is that all my hyperlinks are now dead.  My site had quite some visitors and especially my Megasquirt build how-to.  I guess in time, folks will start finding the link again,  Google will pick it up very fast.

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