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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : "Heart-felt" Thanks to Geoff, Peter, Jim and BigMik
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| Andrew_G Guru  Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 871 |
This is a simple account of how Geoff, Peter, Jim and BigMik helped make my recent stay in hospital more comfortable and my recovery that little bit more effective. Three weeks ago I had major surgery - I am home now, making steady progress and with no complications. The last 1 1/2 weeks of that I was in a Rehabilitation Hospital where medical care, healthy food, physiotherapy and rest were the order of the day. On my first night there I was cold - really cold. An extra blanket helped but I had little sleep - was it me or was it the room? This was answered the next morning when my door was opened and warm air from the corridor flooded into my room! I had my laptop and my part-finished Weather Station base. This consisted of a 3.5" LCD and one of BigMick's PicoMuPs in a J4 Jiffybox. The PicoMuP housed a DS18B20, RTC and LDR (plus an ESP8266, HC-12, BMP180 etc. which were not needed). It took only 30 minutes to turn on my laptop, connect the PicoMuP, fire up MMEdit and re-program the Pico to show ambient temperature in 20mm high characters (Font #6 x3) at full brightness on a 3.5" LCD - highly visible in a darkened room! I was able to substantiate that my room was too cold and the first of six people came to 'fix' the problem. The next night the nurses doing their hourly 'welfare' checks could not miss the temperature as it again hovered around 15degC. The 05:30 nurse left my door open and she noted that the temperature rose 0.75deg in the 10 minutes she was there. Experts 2 to 5 did their best with the remote control - I remained unconvinced. That afternoon the temperature sat on 26deg expert 6 came and went and I, as gently as I could, demanded a change of room - they were not keen but this was granted the next day (after the temperature again dropped to 15). In the new room the temperature could be adjusted, I slept well and my health steadily improved. Thanks to Geoff, Peter, Jim and Mick (and 'the little chip that could'). Andrew |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2950 |
Hi Andrew, I am glad that you are on the road to recovery.. keep going up the road to good health. Honestly I am disappointed you didn’t rip their thermostat off the wall and patch your PicoMuP into it.    I think it shows you are recovering well that you could code your thermometer whilst lying in a freezing room recovering. Take care.. Regards, Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6283 |
Glad to see you back where you belong. Hospitals are a good place to escape from. Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 871 |
Mick and Jim, Yes thanks, and it is very good to be home. Andrew |
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Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
Hospitals are awful places to spend time and two weeks would be double awful. It is a good thing that you had something to keep you busy. Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 871 |
Thanks Geoff. Andrew |
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| DaveJacko Regular Member  Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 83 |
Yes! you can't beat MMBasic, makes coding a joy, not a chore. It's always given me something fun to do over the past few years. I still think we should stop saying BASIC and call it GEOFF best wishes, Dave UK Try swapping 2 and 3 over |
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