Oh My! What a week it has been! But today it has been snowing intensely, on and off, so there is not much accumulation, but it is a happy time anyway. Fortunately I’ve finally got a few moments to write about it all.

I’m really excited that ;Login: has been published with an article on which I am a co-author. My primary contribution was the graphics– but still; it is quite exciting.

It is that time of year again when I have a great desire to work on electronic projects. I have found a number of sources for really cool components and kits and things. The biggest problem is getting PCBs made, because only needing one, it is kind of expensive. I am also going to have to learn how to work with and program micro-controllers now– but that should be exciting. Does anybody want to go in on a POV toy with me? I want to do this SMT kind instead of the kit mentioned at the end–and also add an acceleration sensor so it draws things in the right direction i’ll build it, I just need to buy in bulk.

The first project of the season is this little LED output board for a project my friend John is working on. I fab’ed it up this weekend and wrote some test software for it last night. Even though it is not much, it’s just so fun to make LEDs blink. I had some issues with Cocoa Threads and timing– so I ended up using an NStimer to multiplex the LED blinking. A picture follows but also check out album Electronics for more photos.

Also, I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1 this morning. I sure hope it fixes that XML-RPC problem I had before.