25 CDs were generated during April. The stack is now 479 high. More data could have been taken if I were not concentrating on other things.
I have a big stack (12) of cameras sitting in the basement waiting for me to put them together and test them. New drive motors have been received for the declination. These will be stiffer, but will still not solve the sloppy chain drive.
There continues to be a problem in getting systems working. This is the memory board problem that I have discussed many times before. I have finally decided to spend some time building a more elaborate test fixture so that I can make better tests. Dan has been set to work to design it. It will be a good project for him to learn how to do such things. It has to be some minor thing, so it is just a question of making the proper test.
Most of the month has been spent learning Unix. It is a strange kind of religion. I am now a junior apprentice acolyte. I fear I will never make it to full priesthood because I really don't believe.
I have been able to look at data and find problems. I am itching to process the whole stack of data so that I can write an engineering run paper. While I am sure we will improve the analysis in the future, it is time to get some data out. Several small programs were written in perl to help with the data analysis.