Arduino, Xbee, and me

For my recent birthday Mary was nice enough to get me a gift certificate to sparkfun. So what else could I do… I spent it, and then some), and on new Funnel IO Arduinos, Xbee modules and Lithium-polymer batteries for them. The funnel is amazing. It has a LiPo battery charge chip on it (thorough mini USB) and Xbee socket built in.

Because the Xbees are version 2.5, I didn’t know that you couldn’t use some of the same commands on them. Also, the book I have doesn’t even mention some of the things you need to do. It only took me 12 hours to get it all working. Of course I could do it all in 20min now.

My senior show was this last week. This is the time when everyone shows off all their work from the time they entered their major in a gallery setting. The opening had hundreds of people there, so it got very crammed, but the show was great, but it’s sad it’s over now… I remember every year thinking about that day. I did however buy a suit for the occasion, I figured I will need it for interviews at some point anyways.

My senior thesis in in full swing now. I am redesigning mediawiki from the ground up in the fashion described in Alan Coopers book “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”. I have started deconstruction every part of the software, and already I can tell you it is in dire need of some interaction design. I’ll keep this updated as I work on it.

Last but not least. I was playing around with Mootools, and I started to think. Tellart, the place I have been interning at redid their website this summer. It was all done in flash, and I actually did a hefty portion of the original code in AS3. I was looking at some effects I am using for my new portfolio site (more on that later) and thought I could redo the Tellart site in JavaScript just to try it out. I was able to do it in under 2 hours (flash site took a week). A lot of that had to do with knowing what needed to be done, but also the face that html elements dont want to overlap. Either way, it is really cool to see it working on my phone.

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