Tonight I almost completely finished assembling the Hackulator. I decided I was going to glue the rear cover on so I could cut more of the insides away because it was so tight. I ended up using hot glue to place things inside and had to make a few minor adjustments such as making wires longer or re-gluing parts in a slightly different place. I had accidentally pulled an SMD LED off with some hot glue and overheated it while trying to solder. I was able to put a different LED on in it's place, but it's red instead of blue. I still need to do some final checks to make sure everything still works electrically, but that will be tomorrow. I want to prepare to present it on Adafruit's Show n' Tell soon and I'm thinking either this week or next.

I discovered that the Wio Link (which I had bought off Kickstarter a couple years ago runs with an ESP8266 and I can program it in Arduino. That makes it so much more useful than I originally thought. I'm thinking about using it for my smart home project. I have 2 Wio Links and a load of sensors, so hopefully it will be useful. I was able to get an OLED LCD and strand of 30 NeoPixels successfully working by uploading sketches with the Arduino IDE. I also have a relay module that I'm pretty sure is just sending an on/off to the port.

I pulled out my X10 stuff because I got to thinking and did a search. It appears that some other people have already interfaced with the X10 FireCracker (the computer Interface), plus it's well documented, so I think that will make it much easier to make use of. I opened a radio receiver unit for X10 that was not responding to a remote. The insides had gotten food in them and corroded. I took some solder, flux, and wick and re-tinned the contacts as well as cleaned it up. After putting it back together it started working great.