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:

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

alfie decided to tidy up. This is potentially futile, but alfie specialises in futility.

• Mess.
• Messy messy mess mess.

• 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

• 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 (https://roundup.ehlab.uk/issues/issue10)
• Replace test lead holder with something a bit bigger
• Buy BNC stuff and adapters for the signal generator
• Install RCD socket for mains gear repairs

As part of the Make The Electronics Bench Good™ 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 https://roundup.ehlab.uk/issues/issue11.

When complete, it'll take up the space occuped by the Rigol scope in the 2018-01-18 photograph.

(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.

• 4-pin Cliff Connector assembly (Rapid)
• 10m 4-conductor Lappcable Unitronic Sensor Cable (Rapid)
• Some arduino guff (China)

• Mounts to a mic stand
• Has buttons
• Has analog inputs
• 5-Pin DIN MIDI output
• USB MIDI output
• Network OSC output
• CV/Gate output

• 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.