Another Attempt to Integrate

I have packaged up my humble additions and corrections to the popular Arduino controller environment and stuck them in a zip file for easy access. This contains:

• Non-pre-emptive Task Scheduler.
• ADC interrupt and averaging code.
• Message receive delimiter interface.
• Plus free bonus code!
     freeRam() function to see how much memory you have left.
     MMA8452Q accelerometer interface library.
     Template project allows one to (mostly) avoid the Arduino IDE.

And you can read all about it here:

Schip's Arduino Additions

And now for something completely...

Well, probably not different but at least not fire related...

I'm making a robot hand out of copper pipe. As is typical for Santa Fe I had to import a good portion of the art supplies from elsewhere -- We have a metal recycler and a couple of construction materials vendors here, but they don't really provide the level of supply to which I had become accustomed.

Here's some fingers:

The palm portion is in process as we speak. I will probably stall out after I get it assembled, but the idea is to have it articulate on an arm so you can shake hands with a robot. It would have a people detector and a speach synth to try to get folks to cooperate and berate them when they don't. I should do it with Arduinos and MaxMSP but I think I'm just too stupid to learn how, so I'll probably re-invent it all for myself.

A Day Without Welding is like A Night Without Moonshine

Making some chairs that might not blow off my deck:

There. Done. Now need to use them: