[TriEmbed] informal electronics "event" at Splatspace this afternoon

[Pete Soper]

Folks,

   TLDR; a prep session/partial dry run of an electronics 
instruction-oriented event is happening at Splatspace this afternoon 
from roughly 2-5:30pm. You're all welcome to swing by to chew the fat, 
examine/exercise some of my shop equipment,  try out a few simple 
exercises, and/or help with some Splatspace infrastructure construction* 
while there's discussion of teaching electronics to the hands on, 
practical people as well as the nerdy theorists.

    The goal (again) is to launch the event formally via Meetup and the 
Splatspace event calendar for Sunday December 4th, but there will be 
another prep session on the 27th.

Regards,
Pete

*The TI BQ24450-based charger I designed for the "Splat sign batteries" 
has the unfortunate property of driving old and/or mishandled batteries 
into thermal runaway and we just can't have that at Splatspace since all 
the batteries in use are "well used" and it's too much to ask of folks 
to avoid accidental mishandling to do with charge cycles. Sorry about 
that. And you know how it is: I poured a lot of energy into the one 
solution and at the point it became obvious it was the wrong my 
enthusiasm flagged and my pride prevented the proper expedient solution 
I'm providing today while regrouping.