BigDumbDinosaur wrote:
There are those around here who do not want to read anything negative about someone’s project, even though it may be rife with technical errors that will all-but-guarantee failure. All-too-often, said people will say we must be encouraging, no matter what. Dunno about you, but I’m not in the habit of encouraging failure—it will naturally occur, even absent encouragement. Encouraging someone to repeat the mistakes made in the past is insanity; the same mistakes will result in the same failures. Better to be encouraging by rationally describing the problems seen in a design and offering suggestions on how to correct them. If the designer adopts the suggestions, failure is less likely. If not, the designer will merely prove Einstein's aphorism to be true.
100% behind you BDD. Being a math teacher, I know the power of failure: To learn what NOT to do, and try again. The hardest thing for any student of any topic is to try again. And again. And again if necessary. It is even hard for me. If pointing out problems comes across as 'gruff', perhaps the receiving person is being too sensitive. I am a sensitive person myself, but I value the words of experts more than my feelings.
Your post was very encouraging to me BDD, especially above where your success/failure ratio as flipped. I hope to one day say the same. One day.
Everyone here has helped encourage me as well, and spur me on to better things. And that includes you BDD. So, thank you.
Lastly, to rehsd, I'm glad your board is working now! It is a good feeling indeed. Sorry for jumping in unexpectedly but BDD's post was too good to pass up.
Chad
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So, somewhere along the way, I accidentally dropped the reset vector. Oops. 
