Quick update

 FedEx didn’t deliver on Wednesday like they said they would (shock, horror), but they finally rocked up at about 4pm on Thursday.

Not ideal, but not the end of the world either. Six hours of solid building later — and by solid, I mean completely losing track of time and not realising how late it had gotten — the radio was alive and working beautifully.

Yesterday I took it down to the customer at the radio club. We ran it through some diagnostics, and it passed everything cleanly.
No weird faults, no solder joints playing hide and seek, no sudden panic halfway through testing. Just smooth, textbook success.
It’s always a little satisfying when something you built with your own hands just works without needing any last-minute bodges.

And somehow... that’s the end of the holidays already. School starts again tomorrow.
Weirdly, I’m not dreading it. In fact, it almost feels like it couldn’t have come soon enough.
Maybe it’s because after a couple weeks of moving at my own pace — and after enough hours spent half-dismantling the garage — I’m starting to miss the structure. The routine. Even the chaos of school life.
It’s time. I’m ready to switch gears again.

The Prusa’s been printing reliably through it all, silently doing its thing in the background. It’s weird how fast it’s become a part of the scenery.
Meanwhile, outside the garage bubble, the usual chaos continues — and honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

That’s all for today. Radio complete, printer running, life about to get hectic again. Just how I like it.

73,
Daniel