Day 3023

 I woke up after 8 and played games for a long time.  It was almost 10 by the time I was out of bed and eating breakfast.  After breakfast was a short surfing session before I dedicated myself to finishing BBX.

I got off to a slow start because the battery needed to be charged.  While that was being done I did prep work - getting out instructions, tools, and parts as well as figuring out what I was going to have to do.  I also took apart part of the back of the BBX so I could access the ESC.

The BBX needed to be completely programmed.  It took a while for me to learn that the throttle settings have to be done with the power button on the ESC, not the remote one.  Once that was done I plugged in the blutooth module and turned on the app.  Then I spent a lot of time fighting with the phone trying to update the app.  Firefox refused to run the update.  After a lot of frustration I tried the play store.  That worked perfectly.

I used the app to set 18 different ESC parameters.  Many of them had several values to choose from.  It took a lot of manual reading to get it all the way I think I want it.  When I was done I removed the blutooth module and put the BBX back together.

I put it on the floor and set the steering trim.  Then I set the steering limits.  That was the last of the setup.  I'd chosen a "slow" motor in order to qualify for a specific race class.  When I held the car and hit the throttle it still ballooned the tires.

I started sorting out all of the extra hardware and parts that I'd collected doing the BBX and the 1/24 car works.  I got about halfway through before it was 4:30 and time to get the mail.  You don't get a lot done when you don't get going until after 10.  There was another AliExpress item.  That leaves two or three to go.

Audi sent an email at 5 saying the car was done.  The bill is just under $2,000.  $600 of that is tires and a lot of the rest is the 65K service.  Fixing the mouse problem wasn't that much.

I sat down for videos and fell asleep.  Ellen fixed sausage and hash browns for dinner.  She waited until I woke up to tell me.

After dinner was videos.