LSD Facebook Profile Pic
Through some strange trail of events, I was asked to create a Facebook profile pic for Lynbrook Speech and Debate. After GIMPing for some… 15? minutes, I came up with this:
You can download it here by right-clicking on the link and selecting “Save As…”
Dedicated Robot Controller Board
I was thinking a few days ago to make my robot platform standalone, and not dependent on the Arduino Duemilanove. As the Arduino is quite expensive, but its assorted parts are not (An ATMega328 and a ceramic resonator total to about $7.00), I decided to make a so-called ‘standalone Arduino’. Since this board is designed to be a slave to the Arduino, and not to be removed from the robot, it will be designed with a ZIF 28-pin DIP socket (for programming), and have only 5 pins to connect to the Arduino (Vbatt, Vcc, Vss, sclk, sdata). Communication will be done via the I2C interface.
As I don’t possess the ZIF socket or some other important parts yet, the board is currently incomplete. The soldering is quite messy, unfortunately, as a result of a bad iron and really fat solder. Also a lot of it is jury-rigged, since the pre-drilled PCB doesn’t have Vcc and Vss rails.
Family Camp 2010
This year’s Family Camp was undoubtedly better than last years, primarily because the number of people was planned for and executed better. There was not a shortage of food, and the campfire, especially, was quite nice.
As large open fires were forbidden by the campground, we brought in an electric fire, and ‘lit’ it with thirteen torches. Thereafter, there were many quite well-performed skits, as well as the usual not-so-good ones.
Protected: Junior Prom Poll
FlexLab
I’m playing with the FlexLab right now… it could use a decent amount of improvement. It appears to be some version of a reshelled VNC client-server paradigm. It has the same, annoying lag – maybe 100ms, minimum. Seems totally overrated – horrible interface and latency problems. It also doesn’t have any resolution to speak of: 800x600px – I don’t know what they’re doing.