Stress, let it go so it don’t completely consume.

Thanks to Atmosphere for the lyric where I got this title from,

Man I’m totally stressed out, I’ve been working my ass off in my microprocessor lab trying to get the damn LCD controller to work (Epson S1D13705). First I had the chip, but I couldn’t use it because it was a QFP14 chip, then when I got back from Vegas, I brought the necessary adapter with me to get it done, Ana soldered the chip to the adapter, and we thought we were ready to go. We thought wrong, we needed longer pins to do the wirewrapping, so I got the longer pins, put them on, and started wirewrapping the damn thing, we are talking about 80 pins here, so its a real pain. I wirewrapped it the first time, and it didn’t work for some reason, I disconnected the damn thing, and decided to do it again, exactly how it would be used at the end, we are using shift registers for the address lines because our microcontroller doesn’t have enough pins). I connect the damn thing, exactly how I need it, connect it to the MCU, and BAM!, I can’t flash the MCU anymore. After debugging for a while, I notice it has to do with the voltage and ground connections, I disconnect those, and redo them, and then I notice it had to do with the voltage and ground when the shift registers are connected. I decided to go home and keep working on it tomorrow, 10 - 12 hours a day in the lab is starting to get tiring….

Currently Listening to: Rhyme Slayers by Atmosphere

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