JKR Updates

Alright this saga is getting close to caught up. Just to provide a brief, "Previously on..." I started this whole thing with the intention of bringing you up to speed with issues I was having with my speech device attached to my wheelchair. Zigzagged all over how I learned about Team Gleason, Eye Tracking technology, challenges keeping my devices powered while still maintaining mobility and left off with the longest explanation ever for how I needed new batteries for my chair. I know how you feel, because I had to wait a loooong time for my new batteries.  So I received my shiny new Surface Pro 8 and PCEye5 from Team Gleason. But after powering the USB based peripherals (PCEye5, 2 drive control units, and a phone), the battery life of the tablets was less than optimal. Especially since I wanted to run VMs, development and RE applications, and the like. I knew I wanted to draw power from my wheelchair main batteries. These are like hard core deep cycle sealed lead based marine...

Electricity is fascinating. Yet, if I had to guess, it's probably right up there near the top of the list of things taken for granted by most of us. Next to air, I can't think of many more things my kids panic more about when it's out. Maybe Mac 'n Cheese. Electricity has that same mystique to it, as to how those boxes of Mac 'n Cheese keep appearing in the cupboard. We keep having to point out our first world problems to our children. And we have the added irony of reminding two of ours that they were, in fact, born in Africa and things like Mac 'n Cheese, air-conditioning and electricity aren't staples there. As any good thinking father would do, I saw this as a teaching moment. And like any father, I wanted to start with the basics, which I will share with you now... As soon as I said electricity, I'm sure you immediately conjured the images and works of Alessandro Volta, James Clerk Maxwell, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla, the giants in the field (t...