CAMAC

I've been getting the task of getting this new piece of data acquisition hardware running. It's like the VME bridge I worked on this summer, but it is for the CAMAC standard, which is a bit trickier. It's a bit of a nice change, though, because I've hit a bit of a snag in my FPGA project. I'm working on timing my data acquisition, and I've run into this weird communication error between software and firmware... Later today I'm going to set up in the lab and try dome debugging routines I wrote. 

In other news, last night I bottled a pilsner beer I made about a month ago. It's bottle conditioning at the moment (ie, aging and carbonating) and should be ready to drink in two weeks or so. Tonight I have to bottle a raspberry blonde I made (with 2kg of raspberries!), and tomorrow I need to go buy the yeast for a few beers I want to make tomorrow-- a Belgian Trappist Tripel, some mead (honeywine), and a blond ale that I'm going to brew with some apricot extract for flavoring. 

Bottling all of this is going to be a royal pain due to the fact that most of the bottles I have accumulated over time were never washed by their donors, so I need to do some work to get them clean... But I've got at least two weeks of fermentation time between now and having to bottle the first of the three beers I just named (likely to be the apricot ale as it's going to have the lowest amount of fermentable material in it. I've also got a big bag of grain that was slated to be for a Moosehead clone that needs to be used.... Perhaps I'll do it just for the sake of trying another lager. 

Back to work now. Finally found the CAMAC documentation page I was looking for.