@zander The Prusa is highly regarded, and comes in kit and assembled form. It's the one on my wish list. It's more expensive than some of the more ent...

@zander The ammeter needs to be in series, so your mini box will probably need to be an insert. Yeh, I got them on Amazon.ca - I haven't tested them f...

@will Really nice job, Will. Yeah, I'm getting an itch for a Prusa, lol.

@zander Yeh, I wanted the meters so I could calculate power drain (and see if anything was terribly wonky). I suspect there are many of these in the w...

It's plastic, yeh. The power brick is grounded on the AC side, obviously. 19v DC coming in from the brick.

@inst-tech The coding techniques / fave language debates can reach the fervor of religious zealotry, lol - the discussions can be insightful, and I am...

@frogandtoad Heh. I never used Oracle. I worked in an Entity-Relationship (ER) Db/language for about 6 years in the late 80s and early 90s, specializi...

I consulted to a team that still worked in COBOL on an IBM (or maybe Unisys) mainframe as recently as 15 years ago - pretty sure they are still on it....

@zander SQL / Relational databases don't tend to handle recursive constructs like trees (e.g. Bill of Materials) and graphs (e.g. circuits, network to...

The gains in coding in OO in financial and clerical type apps depends on the complexity of the app. I wrote an entire Bill of Materials / material and...

Yeh, if you rate languages based on popularity, I'd agree, although VBA would have to be on the list at some point. I refuse to use non-type safe lang...

@robotbuilder Q: How many software jockeys does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. It's a hardware problem. :)

@robotbuilder I'm a hybrid. I taught hardware, worked in software, but my bias is toward the software, I'll admit. I'm fond of sayin' "If it ain't vir...

@zander This is the simplest example I've posted, but give me a simpler project definition, and I'll code it and post it.

@zander I have no shortage of acquisition tales, for good or ill. ;)