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Unfinished Proje
     Early wannabe EE aspires to stuff too much into too little and gets carried away. I actually got sidetracked with a dumb idea of making complex animations on a character display, called the thing "Juice Box," set it up to play the Mario theme song on a piezo and did a whole intro thing that kinda took away my motivation to program the voltage monitoring and digital potentiometer, or something like that. I forget what the hiccup was exactly. This was back when I was still willing and naively going through massive physical ups and downs with disability from my broken neck/back. I probably put it away in one of the 3-6 week stretches without much sleep at all and never managed to come back to it. It is the same story with most of my hardware projects, and why I may seem quite capable, but will readily admit I'm pretty much useless in my physical shape overall.
 I never did fit it into the final enclosure despite ridiculous plans that were almost as overcomplicated as my etch mask art.
  Printed button details for good engagement and function are hard. Didn't have an *ideal* wiring multi conductor available. Solid proje is maturing well with 2 years of dust.