> We have three children, ages 12, 7 and 4. None of them have ever eaten a savoury pie. Today was the day we ended that. That is a Marks and Spencers’ roast chicken pie. Selina didn’t like it, Hugo and Alisa said they did but didn’t eat much of it. We won’t be having another in a hurry.
> This weekend I was going to play around with servos and motors, but due to a missing diode I only got the servo working, displayed below. Yes, that’s a matchstick attached to it with Blu-Tac. The processing language is actually very nice to play with. If I squint and pretend it’s Javascript then I can write in it without missing python too much. The whole purpose of playing around with electronics is deep down I’d like to know a…
> Hardest thing I’ve wired up so far. Not ‘hard’, just tedious. But it works!! Weeeeeeee. Buy yours here.
> OK, whilst I am here, there’s another addition. The Amicus18 could be considered an Arduino with a PIC processor. Once again, the Amicus18 homepage at http://www.myamicus.co.uk/ gives the summary: Amicus is a multifunction development system inspired by the popular Arduino board, however, the Amicus board uses a Microchip PIC®microcontroller instead of an Atmel AVRtm type For the moment I am going to focus on the Arduino, learn some .NET and do some Netduino and then play with the Amicus18…
> My last posting detailed getting my Arduino displaying a temperature sensor on a LCD. That worked fine. Soon after that I took delivery of a Netduino. A Netduino is … well … to quote from http://www.netduino.com/: Netduino is an open source electronics platform using the .NET Micro Framework. Featuring a 32-bit microcontroller and a rich development environment. Suitable for engineers and hobbyists alike. It’s basically an Arduino that you program via the .NET language. I’ve not used Microsoft languages…