For my talk at FITC 2014, I went deep into the project archives to pull out an idea I had had in 1987, and finally built that C64 relay controller programmed in Basic. When it comes to your old ideas, it pays to stubbornly refuse to let them go. That’s not to say that ALL of my old project ideas have eventually been realized. In fact, most of the those I had in the past 30 years are still left unbuilt, in idea limbo – not gone though, and definitely not forgotten. Sadly paying the bills doesn’t leave room for following through on personal projects or continuous experimentation – especially with the myriad of ideas clogging up the aforementioned limbo – so what happens to old ideas? Are they deemed to fail? Are you just wasting your time? I am dead set to prove that kicking old ideas around – even after 30 years – hasn’t been a waste of my time, and it certainly won’t be a waste of yours.