When in doubt ....
Sep. 19th, 2008 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjai.. blame the hardware. I spent an hour debugging arduino code to read a joystick yesterday - and it was 6 fucking lines - before sticking a multimeter on the joystick itself. Sure enough, fucked from the factory. Still, it half works, so I can use it for something.
The Flying Pirate Ship of Doom progresses - I now have joysticks, and code to read them, and by Monday I will have code to convert that to motor movement, proportional, forward and back. Huzzah. In theory, making that wireless is not the hardest thing in the world.
So then I just need to build the track and carriers....
It's just as well I brought my workshop, though, I tell you. For a dream gig, I'm remarkably over it at the moment. But that's another post. I just want to take the skills I've learned home, and start doing stuff with them. I love the people, but it's Corporate dressed up as circus. I want to be making art.
And the weather. Absolutely over the weather.
Anyway. Only 13 months to go. Tabarnac.
And being here has its moments. A big cup of freshly pureed mango juice, ice cold, for AU$2, for example.
jai.
.
The Flying Pirate Ship of Doom progresses - I now have joysticks, and code to read them, and by Monday I will have code to convert that to motor movement, proportional, forward and back. Huzzah. In theory, making that wireless is not the hardest thing in the world.
So then I just need to build the track and carriers....
It's just as well I brought my workshop, though, I tell you. For a dream gig, I'm remarkably over it at the moment. But that's another post. I just want to take the skills I've learned home, and start doing stuff with them. I love the people, but it's Corporate dressed up as circus. I want to be making art.
And the weather. Absolutely over the weather.
Anyway. Only 13 months to go. Tabarnac.
And being here has its moments. A big cup of freshly pureed mango juice, ice cold, for AU$2, for example.
jai.
.
Things I am missing that now that I am home.
Date: 2008-09-19 04:18 am (UTC)Bottle fruit juice is now just a disappointment so need to get myself an income and get myself to the Vic to find appropriate fruit to puree.
Keep yourself safe and thanks for putting us up in Macau.
Justin