A week or two ago I was checking over StudentOnline for some reason or another, and I came across a disturbing apparent fact: I need 690 credit points for my degree, have 595 (plus 15 from DIS, still not officially accounted for), and am currently enrolled in 75-worth… for the arithmetically impaired, that puts my… Read more
Ashley just pointed out a recent blog entry from Wil Shipley, the niche famous author of Delicious Library, titled Frozen in Carbonite. In a nutshell he’s lamenting the lack of good APIs from Apple for some of their more fundamental but less buzzy APIs – Quicktime, the keychain & security stuff, etc. Note that I… Read more
About two weeks ago a package was FedEx’d to me from the U.S.A. It arrived earlier this week. Unfortunately, it was sent to my mother’s address instead of mine, but that’s okay. She missed the delivery, so she got them to reroute it to the post office at La Trobe. Apparently FedEx reckon’d it would… Read more
+++ ATMF Debug C:UAVmain.c:23 – Initialising block buffers… Debug C:UAVmain.c:27 – Initialising magnetometre… Debug C:UAVmain.c:32 – Initialising physical media… Debug C:UAVDiskPhysicalMedia.c:83 – Ensuring SD card is initialised… Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:336 – Initialising SPI… Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:341 – Initialising SD card… Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:349 – Starting card up………………. Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:361 – Waiting for card to boot…. Debug C:UAVSDMemoryCard.c:380 -… Read more
For the past two weeks or so Rob & I have been developing the UAV software on the AVR, finally. As I’ve noted in a few previous entries. And it’s been just one giant bug-hunt, for the most part, but we’re making progress. Bluetooth works. We have my very own printf substitute that’s quite tiny…… Read more
I spent the first part of today (and some of yesterday) implementing point dragging and addition in our flight planning software. As it stands it’s working quite well… it remains to be added the ability to change the altitude of points, and delete them, but things are well underway. After that, I just need to… Read more
Last night I went to kayaking as usual, although this week is the mid-semester break. Many people still turned up; uni “breaks” rarely are. However, no girls turned up. Aside from Emily, whom didn’t get in the pool and only hung around for ten minutes or so. Anyway, with eight people in the pool we… Read more