Author: AMH

I am the excitedly proud new owner of a iRobot Create, basically a Roomba with the vaccuum parts ripped out and an attachment to let you program it in C or C++. So, first, I’ve got to go in to my office tomorrow and retrieve my copy of Kernighan & Ritchie. There’s also a guide to WinAVR (the robot’s development toolset for C/C++ programs) over at SourceForge that seems pretty good. Though – damn – I haven’t had to deal with makefiles in forever… Woooooo! Robots!!!!!!!

There seems to have been an explosion of carnivals since the last time I browsed the Blog Carnival Index. If you haven’t seen a carnival before, it is a group that arranges for people to collect and link to posts on a particular theme on a weekly or monthly basis. It’s hard to imagine you won’t find something to interest you if you scan through their listings. Just now I lost myself in the latest entries from the Books Carnival, the Carnival of Chocolate, and the Carnival of Game Production. Carnivals seem to come and go, but they’re an interesting … Continue reading Mini Topic Portals

I’ve got a bunch of random integrated circuits left over from my intersession course so I think I’m going to try these tips on how to uncap/open various integrated circuits on a few of them [via Make: Blog]. The pictures in that guide aree really interesting just by themselves. Perhaps cooler is the weblog that the post is from μblog: engineering from the trenches, which is just filled up with cool geek content covering most of the spectrum of electrical engineering.