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adularia

wheeee!

Jul 20, 2008 22:52

I WILL DO SCIENCE TO IT

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techhology, squee, diy, yay

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I'm pretty sure those aren't edible... tcepsa July 21 2008, 03:09:34 UTC

but aside from that, OoooOOOooo!

I already have more embedded programming widgets than I can use (an HC11 board and a PIC programmer... oh for a time turner) but it's been incredibly tempting to get one of those as well. I'm looking forward to reading more about your adventures with it ^_^

(also, if you design any holographic robots, can I see one?)

Re: I'm pretty sure those aren't edible... adularia July 21 2008, 14:53:56 UTC

sure! Good idea. :D

zzyzx_xyzzy July 21 2008, 04:52:03 UTC

Gateway drug. Son you will be wanting the harder stuff. writing interrupts service routines in assembler. TURN BACK NOW

tracher July 21 2008, 05:06:00 UTC

Wait, shinny but huh? I see naked hardware. What does said hardware do?

adularia July 21 2008, 12:52:55 UTC

Whatever you want! if your desires are fairly modest. It's an Arduino prototyping kit. Lets you build programmable circuits in an extremely friendly environment. Is frakking awesome just for that.

I decided a while ago that I wanted to mod an air conditioner (which has a very old-school physical interface with an electric switch) to be on a variable cooling schedule, because I don't want to run my AC on high when I'm not home, but nor do I want to remember to turn it off. I'm going to use this for that, but dymaxion pointed out that I could go one better and give it a Web interface.

tracher July 21 2008, 14:11:29 UTC

Ok, now that's just awesome. Careful, you'll give me ideas.

stevens1 July 21 2008, 05:37:03 UTC

Can you turn it into an X10 interface? (new interest in X10 after inheriting some sensors)

adularia July 21 2008, 13:14:59 UTC

Yup.

secretsoflife July 21 2008, 13:02:55 UTC

yay science! it was lovely seeing you this weekend :)