Thursday 3-13-25 Home Projects, Jukebox Project, Butterfly Flowers & More

 

High temperature of 90 degrees

 

We had a hot windy day, that the National Weather Service issued high wind and heat warnings.

Larry did a couple of home projects. First he started the irrigation system. Then he sprayed the weeds in the gravel that surround the house.

I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Game Tango of 20 games (10 Klondike and 10 Spider). It took me 2 hours, 8 minutes and 42 seconds, which put me in 26th place in my group. Then I played Angry Birds.

Larry continued working on his jukebox project. Today he worked on addressable led's and documentation. He plans to add a few led's that will react to the music. He has no experience with this, he bought a short run of led's, a Raspberry Pi Pico micro controller, a sound sensor and some wires. To make this work you have to program the controller. Using YouTube and internet searches he was able to get the led's to light and flash in different colors. He was happy about that. It appears the sound sensor might be defective, it had obviously been opened and used before he received it and he can't get it to work. Hard to believe someone might have returned it since they are so inexpensive. He ordered a couple more.

Last summer Larry wrote a document on converting the Rock-Ola jukeboxes to digital players. Part of that documentation was a wiring schematic. Due to adding a larger monitor he had to add a relay and change the wiring, this meant he also needed to update his schematic. He did that today. For these types of drawings he uses the design program for his Silhouette.

Jukebox Wiring Schematic

 

I spent a lot of time working on the Butterfly Flower diamond painting. I was successful in finishing it. I started 3/7/25 and finished 3/13/25, which was a week. It came out beautiful and the colors are very bright.

 

Butterfly Flowers finished

I worked out with the Wii Fit for a half hour, Gold's Gym for a half hour and the Synth RIders for a half hour.

 

Working out

I played two games of Monster Manor in the Bounce Arcade. First game I earned a silver trophy. I awaken the manor, captured the ghosts and stunned the manor. I had a great game. The bronze trophy game I was unsuccessful in stunning the manor but I did awaken manor.

 

 

 

Silver trophy game

 

I played four games of pinball, which were Cactus Canyon, Cirqus Voltaire, Creature From the Black Lagoon and Elvira Party Monsters. While playing Cirqus Voltaire I defeated the ringmaster when I battled him. I had  fun time trying to get new high scores.

 

 

Cactus Canyon

 

 

 

 

Cirqus Voltaire

 

 

 

Creature From the Black Lagoon

 

 

 

Elvira Party Monsters

 

In the evening we watched two episodes of Death In Paradise. I watched episode 8 of season 12th of Father Brown, episode 6 of the 3rd season of Reacher and one episode of season 2 of Bloodlands. I ended up doing 18,000 steps, which put me in 4th place in my group.