Hi, I'm Craig Shannon

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This is about me in the short version. More details is in Profiles – About Me.

  • Retired
  • Software Engineer 35+ Years (Fortran, Ada, C, C++, C#, VB, …)
  • Bunch of ESP8266 and ESP32 (Garage Door Open/Close, Shade Controller)
  • 6+ of Raspberry PIs (Network Routers, Servers)
  • 2 Restore electronics in 2 Pinball Machines
  • Spartan-7 FPGA Programming (Would like to learn more)
  • Ender 3 3-D Printer (Parts, Cases, etc)
  • Ceramics for 2 years
  • Learning Glass Bead Making and Glass Blowing
  • Like to Learn Silversmithing
  • Pool Table Restoration
  • Few years of Ballroom dancing
  • Married with a number of grandkids and great grandkids
  • Play golf (not very good)
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awesome! Good to meet you.

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Great list of skills! Was the pool table one of those coin-operated versions?

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It is a circa 1918 Brunswick Newport that has been in the family since the 1960’s. I have replaces the cushions and felt, so I can play it. I’m refinishing the body, it was painted black. It is about 90% stripped and it is a quarter sawn oak and I started sanding and started really show the grain. When I get some finished I will post before and after photos. But, I don’t expect I will be completed for a few months (years?).

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Hello Craig and welcome

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Welcome!

I am a bit of an electronics dabbler by trade. I have some Spartan-3 experience but most of that is fighting to get Xilinx’s ISE to work on newer operating systems.

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The Digilent Arty S7 board came with free download to Vivado software. I don’t know what the difference between the ISE’s. My computer is 10 years old Windows 10 Pro. It was a pain to install and it run a little slow. My notes on the install are very limited. I also installed it on Linux about a year ago, but I really never used it.

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