Well, I still haven't had time to work on my projects, but I should very soon. My wife left this morning to Colorado to help her Mom for a couple of months and the reason I haven't been able to work on my projects is because I was helping with all of the packing. I'm going to PAX tomorrow, so I'll be busy all day, but I should be able to resume projects on Monday.

I took the opportunity to set up my work area a little better today. I still want to mount some shelves and set up another lamp or two, but I have much more desk space. While working on things, I had an idea for another project. It's something I've been thinking about for the past few days after seeing some projects on Youtube. I'm looking at running Alexa off the Raspberry Pi 3 that I have. I have a spare 16" LCD screen that I picked up a while back at Goodwill for $2.50. I ordered an LCD Controller board off eBar for $22.50, so the total cost is only $25 so far. I'm thinking several ideas with how to get it up and running including mounting it on the back of a piece of glass to make a Magic Mirror running Alexa, or I might set it up more like an Echo Show. It will probably take a couple weeks for that to arrive, so I have some time to think about it.

Earlier this week, I was the Adafruit Ask an Engineer Trivia Winner and I talked about my calculator project that I'm pretty close to finishing. I won a Google AIY Vision Kit and I'm hoping to be able to integrate that into the project with the LCD screen. I was really nervous talking to Ladyada because she's been one of my inspiration with getting back into electronics, but I think I did pretty well.

I received the LCD and added it to my function generator project and it worked great. Since this is more of an experimental learning project, I plan to added the interrupt based timing and display a little more stuff on the LCD and will consider it complete at that point.

I have some shipping updates. The function generator that I ordered and I think it will arrive early next week based on where it is now and the holiday coming up on Monday. I received the Playbox for my Pine64 which I had forgotten about and that went together beautifully. I still need to completely reload Armbian on it because of some space constraints when I tried on an 8GB card. This time I have a 32GB card inside.