Cool, the M7 is due to open just before christmas… This will be good, allowing me to bypass about forty-something sets of lights when I go over to richards to work on the plane… If only there was an exit …
There is an interesting report on SlashDot noting that Apple will *NOT* be released on this wednesday. The reason is that Apple has not reached an agreement with the movie studios for distribution of content online, rather than for technical …
I am now home after working on the plane part of today. Actually were were doing other stuff so we did not really get much work done on the plane itself… We got some ribs drilled… It was fun… When …
I just got an email message from WICEN letting me know that they have found a receipt book and telling me that my membership is now fine until 2007/8. WICEN for those that do not know is a part of …
I dont think I mentioned this last night, but I put the Asterisk@Home CD in my old Laptop and rebooted the machine, thinking that this was a ‘Live’ CD with no install needed. Yeah, sure. After asking if you wanted …
I went for a run this afternoon – and I think I did about 2km. It was tiring, and my legs are still complaining about it. Come to think of it I am generally exhausted after it. Not just the …
I am getting somewhere with the serial port on the PIC. The first issue was that there are two serial port tables for the PIC… and I was using the wrong one. This helped some things. Right now I am …
My last post commented about how I was going to use interrupts to do the processing on this job. Well, it seems that PicBasic Pro does not handle Interrupts how I would have assumed that they work. They run when …
Back to the PIC coding today. I have decided on how I will structure the code. This can be a pain given the capabilities of the language. Since I am using a version of Basic, then things are not as …
There is a story on News.Com.Au about how the Bible Society has converted the bible to SMS format. They used the Contempory English Version and it took about a month to convert the entire bible. And it would cost about …
I solved the problem with the PIC stuff… Turned out to be the initialization of the ADC… Took too much time… So much so that I did not get lunch until 7:00pm this evening… In the same vein as the …
Definitely a time to have a short break from programming this %^$^#%$* device. I have had a few hassles… Mostly to do with the analog to digital converter which converts analog signals into digital signals. In this case it is …
Blogger.Com was down for two hours for ‘Scheduled Maintenance’. However they did not bother to post on stats.blogger.com that Blogger would be down… So it was an unscheduled scheduled downtime…
Right now I am playing with the PIC processor I described earlier. Basically things are working fairly well. I am using PicBasicPro from microEngineering Labs to write code for this device. I am using MicroCode Studio from Mecanique in order …
A PhD Student in colorado has an interesting page on her WebSite about how to put together an bodice with LED lights embedded into it. Interesting read, although the top does need some improvements with regards to mechanical strength I …