Electronica was originally an experiment to get my feet wet with Android development. It’s been very educational for me, as a programmer; but it was meant to be a short-term stepping stone to other projects. I’m not abandoning it, mind you. I’ve gotten very positive feedback from people about it, and I’d like to keep adding stuff to it.

However, I’m finding the time I have spread out a bit between this and other projects, and when I do work on it, the “creepy feature creature” kicks in and I wind up making plans for all sorts of crap to add in, and I’m simply getting off track. I made a list of things to add into v1.5, but it just keeps getting longer. There’s a handful of things done and ready to go, but there’s still more to knock off the list that I’ve made for the next version.

So, I started thinking about it. Instead of doing the traditional incremental version numbers, I’m just going to use the internal version code that all apps use. The next release (just pushed out to the Marketplace) will be v7. And I’ll just push out one or two things — small updates. That will remove the pressure that I put on myself to do as much as I can in a small amount of time, and hopefully get new content pushed out more often.

What’s new in v7? Just expanded the data on 555; considering putting a calculator for easily picking resistors and caps for it. Also, I moved the NES port pinout to a new ‘video games’ sub-section. It’s all by itself right now, but in time it’ll have friends. :P