solarbird | The signal generator

I’ve been working on repairing – and in the end, restoring – an Eico 379 signal generator for an online electronics course I want to start taking. It’s not for course credit, it’s advanced hobbyist stuff. But being self-taught there are a lot of gaps I’d like to fill in.

It suggests having a signal generator, and I actually do have an old generator that’s even technically a function generator in that it can to square waves as well as sine waves. But it’s never worked at all.

Anyway, that’s why I’m dropping in a still-in-progress update until I have time to post something more real. The case was rusty – spotty on the outside but not too bad but worse on the inside, and it had a cast aluminium frame on the front which had been really beat up.

I thought I was completely done but I need to give the bottom one more coat of paint after all, for incomplete coverage I didn’t notice when I took these shots. I probably don’t actually need to do it, but I want to.

And I also want to test posting pictures via the blog rather than directly. ^_^