With how the world is going, aren't we all doing "Victory Gardens" now?! Certainly my plants need automation help to survive my "brown thumb." Almos...

@davee Hope you've had fun reading this far. Corrections or suggestions?

@davee Your thoughts mirror many of mine! A more complete description of the rocket launch control system is here: /p>

@madmisha Ha! You've stumble upon _exactly_ how I run the range today. The RSO has a line-of-sight to everything (gates, controllers, launch pads, ...

@davee Valid points. However what I was baiting someone to point out was "virtual MAC" assignments. The world is swimming in VMs!

So the layout of our model rocket range: It is a simple open field,, a few acres, on the back side of the Scout camp. We rope off about a third of ...

Oh for the want of either openable/closable solder pads, or mini-dip-switches tied to addressing pins... There is a reason the world's NICs have glob...

Some common time standards allow for drift of plus or minus three minutes--that's six minutes of variance between them! We had a private school tha...

@davemorris "Life-long learning" is good!

Also got some caps in there on the power supplies...

You fly, ski, drink Scotch, golf, wear kilts, married a northern lass and get to listen to pipes?!?!? You lucky wanker. Life can be so unfair for th...

Update: One helpful reviewer is more interested in the UI, so....here are a couple more drawings! Thoughts? Suggestions?

@gallesio Are you stuck on using CAN? Modbus or TCP/IP might have more docs, samples, & users to lean on.

@madmisha I haven't studied the ESP32 much. Maybe I should consider it for my rocket launch system? It has really been pushing the pin counts & ...