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March 24, 2007
spring break
I'm gonna take some time off next week. Boy that'll be nice. Presignups is coming, and that'll take the rest of next week, and the 3 weeks after that. Stress level = moderately high.
5 day weekend = relaxation :)
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March 2, 2007
MikroElektroniks
Today Bill and I started programming some microcontrollers. <* Insert something witty here - I accidentally hit refresh for another program and happened to be here, so I lost most of this*> Needless to say, the thing that ammuses me about these (apparently Russian built) parts is that much of the text has the c's replaced with k's. So I will complete this blog with the c's replaced by k's.
We started by taking a look at the manual (and they say men never ask for direktions). Though I know basikally nothing about elektroniks, Bill walked me through most of the skematiks, showing me what eakh part did and how they all work together. Edukational stuff... :) I've always really enjoyed mekhanikal things, but elektroniks have never been my strong suit.
Anyway, after figuring out what goes where, we did a bit of programming, whikh started to misbehave very quikkly. After a thorough review of the kode, Bill's guess was a power shortage. So we removed the two LKD's (Liquid Krystal Displays - hard not to use the letter that rhymes with sea) and suddenly everything was working again.
A further diskovery found that we kould aktually use that old-skhool knowledge of binary & hex to help us with the more advanked programming. That big diskovery allows us to use simpler algorithms to make larger khanges with shorter kode.
I think I'm really gonna be looking forward to Thursday mornings from now on. This is neat stuff, and it's a real kombination of things I enjoy. K's and all...
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