A bit of a laugh..

time for a giggle..

helps now that the tension's eased up - aside from results, of course..

All over bar the groaning..

Well, that's that for another year (academically speaking), but this blog will continue..

Last two projects were a bit of a frost - got most of the Minor Project posted, but i suspect hardware & programming logic problems, as i couldn't get it to do what i thought it should - it kept doing what i actually had told it to do.

As a poster i once saw says:

*                   I Know You Believe You Understood

*                 What It Was That You Though I Said,

*                          But I'm Not Sure You Realise

*                  That What You Thought You Heard

*                             Was NOT What I Meant!!

i can hear my Arduino chortling away at that thought, since it seems to me that what i thought i'd told it to do was something other than what i wanted {sigh}..

Always assuming the hardware works as expected, of course..

Task 38 - a diversion "..long time the manxome foe (s)he sought.."

..well it wasn't THAT long - I'm back in D208 &..

"Listen.. Listen.. It's a goal!!"
 (with apologies to the legendary Winston McCarthy).

well, yes!  Now it's working perfectly.  And so, for a diversion,
from Lewis Carroll..
-                                                                              The Jabberwock
-                                                                                         as illustrated by John Tenniel
 

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey                               wood,                                                                    
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. 
                                                            "

“

”

from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872)

I've always liked this, so I'm pleased to have an excuse to include it.
And isn't Shakespeare marvellous:

"The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead

  Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets"

Hamlet: Act I, Scene i.

 

Task 37 - Integrate the new eeprom library from the link

Integrating the new eeprom library from the link here. 

"To use the library, make a folder in your SKETCHBOOKPATH\libaries 
  with the name I2C_EEPROM and put the .h and .cpp there. 
  Optionally make a examples subdirectory to place the sample app."

Reference: http://arduino.cc/playground/Main/LibraryForI2CEEPROM


Having tried Task 38 in room D208, I'm now wondering if my current change of room (D209) is causing a problem.  The website refers to a 'boundary problem', & I have a feeling that I don't really know what I'm doing (yet)..








Hmmm.. When in a quandary, have a laugh - "thanks" to Mike Keefe of the 'Denver Post'




















And this guy, Andrew Toos, at CartoonStock

 I like the 'robot' on the right..  these are just too good (hehe)  :-D