Encouraged by Nate's true confessions, I felt it time to come forward, and bare my soul. To you, Darwination.
My second week with it, the arm was getting a little loose. I had spent months researching, and chose Darwin as a worthy successor to my Ego-ish starter
device. I have been smelling solder for 40 years, and spend decades with tools. And stuff.
I gathered my oscilloscope, some tools, my soldering station, and my lucky rabbit's foot all around me. I recited the resistor color band code (in reverse, because I'm good like that). I put on soothing Brian Eno muzak, lit some incense, and thought about what it must look like. Inside my Darwin. Was there perhaps cool stuff etched on a board? I love
Chip Art!
I had often wondered what made Darwin tick. I had even previously set up
Wireshark packet sniffer on a Linux box, to sniff packets on the USB wire. I was entranced at the possibility of communication with Darwin, or just see if it had any little beacons going on. Any inside jokes in the stream. "
HELLO, Hello, hello, is there anybody in there." Maybe I could try sending it a Hello World.
I steeled myself, picked up my Tiny Torque Wrench. Yes, one of the screws was a little bit looser than the others. I re-torqued them all to XXXXXXX inch-pounds, and it worked! (See Note***)
Darwin could wave at me now, and not limply drop his arm any more.
Thank you Nate, for giving me the courage to share my story. I came so close, but I did not invalidate my warranty.
(Note***) This information censored, so as to not tempt Darwin owners to invalidate their warranty.
