Robo-Tank v6.0 is Ready - Now v6.5

[Rob F]

Hi Craig, good to hear you were able to get it working, I'll have to look at those delays.

Thanks for the kind words and glad you're enjoying things. I agree without my app reef-pi is a great piece of software and Ranjib has done an excellent job, it's very kind of him to make that contribution, I think I know how he feels when someone gives him a hard time. :) It's ok though and doesn't stick, just frustrating some times, also some things written can come off a little different than intended. I'm definitely carrying on and when I think of the app I want to jump right in but yeah it's a lot of hours with very little return right now and sadly that doesn't work in my life. Summer also doesn't help, even if everything was on track I'm sure I would be doing less on the app. Sadly we only have another month of tee-shirt weather if we're lucky, single digit night temps coming next week. :( Once the cold gets here I'm sure I'll be back at it as I try and hibernate these days.

I am concerned about the Pi's though as there's no encouraging news out there on them at all. It's pretty clear they can only dribble them out at best and those are bought up immediately so how will it ever end with so many other components backlogged. For quite some time I was having trouble getting a few other components but that seems to be solved now but only because I found a large supplier in China, Win Source. Right now and since I found this company I can order 50,000+ of the components that I can't order from North American distributors, they don't expect these components till mid 2023 and beyond, interesting... Actually I can't order today, went to their website and a large red banner up top saying government just closed them down for 2 days due to covid, as long as that keeps happening it won't improve and if anything goes down in Taiwan who knows what happens then. Either way I'll be here waiting. 

https://www.win-source.net/