Task: Start "Mr General" Assembly..

..which has turned out to be harder than i thought it'd be!

The following problems have emerged:
 1) we no longer have an electronics lab - the heavy-duty electrical engineering people
     now have that room for their stuff;
 2) i'm using a make-shift lab-spot, sharing with all the people
     in the 3rd-year project room;
 3) the lighting's bad in there & i can't see f**k-all;
 4) there's a trick to soldering components into those teeny-tiny holes in the PCBs,
     & it took me ages to work out how to do that & to fix my c**k-ups;
 5) i'm missing a little pack of 8 small nylon washers,
     which i normally wouldn't worry about except that they look as if they're for
     insulating metal spacers from the main PCB surface

Possible solutions (in no particular order):
 1) i have a $2 cyclist's 'headlight' to illuminate the work i'm doing;
 2) i have a $2 magnifying glass whose handle i can wedge into the 'headlight' strap,
     so i can see better;
 3) "Mr General" is no longer essential to my project - Peter says
      i can use the Lego-Bot for both project items;
 4) any number of hardware-y places must surely sell
      little nylon washers of some kind;
 5) I still think i can do this! 
     That must count for something (psychologically if not marks-wise)..




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