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Stardate: 20190125.10h02 | |
Location: SBUX | |
Input Device: Gemini PDA + USB folding keyboard | |
Software: nano | |
Audio: Unrecognized SBUX music, arguing hipsters | |
Visual: Coffee house patio, freeway interchange and mountains | |
in the distance | |
Energy: 75% | |
Mental: 75% | |
Emotional state: No worries | |
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Finally off call! And I get a comp day to boot! So I am not | |
working today...wait, lemme take that back. I\m not working | |
anymore today. I had some pr3evious issues that I had to | |
attend to prior to me officially ceasing the monitoring of | |
the shackles of my leash. FREEDOM! Now I can get some real | |
REMs instead of this half asleep, half listening for my phone | |
thing. I don\t think I really hit REMs when I\m on call. | |
I\m on 24/7 for a week every two months. It used to be a lot | |
worse when my team was smaller, like 1 week every 2 weeks. | |
That was the total suck! This round was quite busy and I\m a | |
little worse for the wear, but I\m done so I\m happy. BTW, | |
I\m ignoring the mispunctuations since I cannot seem to | |
get the keyboard mapping right and I\m being lazy. | |
So today I plan on geekin out. No, not biting heads offa | |
chickens, but playing around in the lab. About a year or so | |
ago, Radio Shack had their fire sale in my area before | |
closing shop so I went crazy with the discounted purchases. | |
I really hate that they are gone, but I got a lot of | |
electronic tools and components to keep me busy for some | |
time. Some of the things I was able to acquire were some | |
arduino components and kits, as well as other microcontroller | |
related stuff. It makes me sad that they have been unused | |
over the past year so I want to start digging in and putting | |
more of these components to use. Maybe I\ll tinker with one | |
of the Circuit Playground boards or maybe the Arduino | |
Esplora. They had a bunch of Adafruit stuff on the cheap as | |
well. I should go through the inventory and piece some | |
things together to tinker with and learn from. | |
There was this robot kit that I built during my last session | |
with my stash. It used an arduino and I put it together | |
successfully. I was able to find the original arduino files | |
for the kit that someone had archived on their website. I | |
should archive them in gopherspace so they will still be | |
available should the web versions disappear. I think Radio | |
Shack already removed them from their site. | |
The robot kit came with instructions to build different | |
configurations with most of the same parts The one I had | |
built was the line-following robot. I was able to get this | |
to work, but not too successfully as instructed since the | |
line sensor was positioned too high up on the chassis. | |
Modifications needed to be done for it to work properly. I | |
have no functional need for a line-following robot, but I was | |
able to learn a bunch. Nice thing about the kit is that the | |
parts seem pretty standard, as far as robot kits go, so I can | |
repurpose them for other projects if I get tired of playing | |
with the robot kit. | |
Well, that\s enough introversion for now. Time to go do | |
something else. | |
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