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-====== alfie ======
-alfie is a music person, photographer, and occasional telecoms person. 'alfie' is lowercase unless you're using their full name (Alfie Pates), if you can help it!
-alfie tends to split their time between Edinburgh and London, but mainly the former these days.
-Please refer to them as 'they' or 'them' if you can, but 'he' and 'him' are perfectly acceptable if you forget - they won't bite your head off.
-alfie looks like this:\\
-{{https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4536/38719097542_280abc2f59_z_d.jpg?480}}
-===== Contact Details =====
-<code>
-email: alfie <alfie@alfiepates.me> (PGP B777 B18B 8010 3EAC C8D9  1DFB 654A 98A7 9AC4 1734)
-phone: zero seven four six two, one four one one zero seven (for emergencies only)
-irc: alfie in most places, alfiepates everywhere else
-</code>
-===== Projects =====
-==== Tidying the Electronics Bench - perpetually ongoing ====
-alfie decided to tidy up. This is potentially futile, but alfie specialises in futility.
-=== Changelog ==
-== Before ==
-{{:workshops:electronics-bench-tidy:before.jpg?800|}}
-  * Mess.
-  * Messy messy mess mess.
-== 2018-01-18 (Current) ==
-{{:workshops:electronics-bench-tidy:2018-01-18.jpg?800|}}
-  * All non-working/non-everyday test gear relocated to storage (G11 or the shelves above the other electronics bench)
-  * alfie and Costa built a shelf to raise the HP power supply and function generator up off the bench to free up some workspace
-  * Cleaned a load of mouse crap
-  * Generally re-organised equipment to give it more useful, permanent(-ish) homes
-  * Installed a new 10-socket power strip on the other side of the bench
-== TODO: ==
-  * Tek scope repair, see below
-  * Find a home for the HP Logic Analyser where it can be used but doesn't eat bench space
-  * Replace Rigol scope ([[see roundup|https://roundup.ehlab.uk/issues/issue10]])
-= Tektronix TDS744A Oscillioscope Repair - awaiting time and bench space =
-As part of the above project, alfie is working on fixing the lovely big ol' Tektronix Scope, which is currently stored on a shelf at the back of G11. There's a roundup issue about this [[here|https://roundup.ehlab.uk/issues/issue11]].
-==== Squeezy Mic Stand Button Controller Thing™ - awaiting parts From China ====
-(it's a working title) a set of controllers that can be mounted to a mic stand and provide arbitrary control inputs to music soft/hardware.
-It currently manifests as a set of 3D-printed blocks ziptied to various pieces of scrap pipe (K&M's standard pipe dimensions are usually ⌀15mm or ⌀22mm) with some kind of wire poking out, and some kind of input device.
-=== Parts on Order ===
-  * 4-pin Cliff Connector assembly (Rapid)
-  * 10m 4-conductor Lappcable Unitronic Sensor Cable (Rapid)
-  * Some arduino guff (China)
-=== Feature Shopping List ===
-  * Mounts to a mic stand
-  * Has buttons
-  * Has analog inputs
-  * 5-Pin DIN MIDI output
-  * USB MIDI output
-  * Network OSC output
-  * CV/Gate output
-==== Future Project Ideas ====
-  * Laser cut foam cutlery organiser
-  * Hack an old fire alarm panel for, uh... okay I haven't figured out a purpose for this but it'd be fun to teach an old panel how2mqtt.