I received a bunch of the items I've been looking forward to and I also started organizing and prioritizing my projects and realized I had around 12 projects in the works of varying sizes. Over the weekend, I finished up the X-10 Controller Project I started last week including finishing touches on the source code, mounting it in a box, and writing up about the project. I also built a Sonoff Dual Power Outlet Box that I was able to load the Tasmota Firmware onto.

I also made some progress on the Hackulator and fixed the wiring. One of the wires had broken off the USB board. I fixed that and then while plugging the USB into the Raspberry Pi, that connector broke. I ended up redoing it with 26 gauge wire instead of 22 gauge, which was much too stiff and everything fit much nicer. I did some work on turning off the LCD screen when powering down, but don't have that working consistently. I came across an article that details how to do it the way I was actually planning on doing it, so I'll have a closer look at that later.

I worked on my Octo-Power Outlet Box with 8 relay controlled outlets and loaded Tasmota onto the NodeMCU and that actually worked pretty great, so I'll probably just stick with Tasmota for that purpose since it's more fully featured than some of the other firmware I've come across. I also worked on the wiring for the box and stripped and tinned all of the wires needed for the power wiring, which was quite a bit. Unfortunately, I cut my thumb pretty badly with a knife in the process, but I'll live. I found a nice case for the relay board, but when I went to 3D print it, I found that my nozzle was jammed and having difficulty extruding. I ordered some items so that I can replace me 0.3mm nozzle with a 0.4mm nozzle which will allow faster prints and less clogging, but also less fine detail. Since I plan to mostly print cases and not so much precision parts, I figured I can live with that trade off. I also need to work on re-leveling my printer bed and can do that while waiting for the parts to come in.

I also had the OLED display in my X-10 controller flake out, so I re-uploaded the firmware to be sure it was functioning and swapped out the display with my last spare, which the whole process only took me about 5-10 minutes to repair.