The relay I need to switch my enlarging lamp was in the mail today. I now have all but one of the components I need to build the digital timer I found here. My hope is that the wait for the proper LCD to show up isn’t too terribly long. Of course, the correct LCD is on backorder now but the customer service guy did say that there were quite a few orders and that usually puts a rush on getting new components. He also said I’d go to the front of the line and get overnight shipping on one when it showed up to make up for making me wait.

At some point tomorrow I’m likely to end up in the garage burning myself with a soldering iron trying to wire up the PCB and mount it along with the microcontroller and a power supply inside a project box. Realistically I ought to be able to even test the thing without the LCD, but I think I’ll just leave it alone until I have a way to see the settings before I push the go button.

Along the same vein, I kind of wish I hadn’t sent the Velvia I shot in my pinhole camera to Fuji for processing. Sure it’ll save me more than 50% of what it costs at the local pro lab but it will also take two weeks instead of a few hours. I’m anxious to see how it came out since I’d never really dealt with reciprocity failure before and want to know if I ended up using appropriate times or not. If these slides come out okay, the old expired Velvia I have in the freezer won’t last very long.