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I'm Back from Peru
Posted Jun 6, 2002
I was in peru. Now I'm not. 3 weeks in the southern hemisphere has left me with quite a tan, many insect bites and many memories that will last several lifetimes. Important note: 4300m is very high. There isn't much air that high in the atmosphere. Anyone planning on travelling form sea level to lake titticaca should get used to the idea of not breathing. Ask for details and I shall provide bits of knowledge in great detail :] Travelling took place high in the andes, from cusco to macchu pichu to lake titicaca, the jungles of manu and finally lima. A good time was had by all. No bugs burrowed into my skin.
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Easter Sunday
Posted Apr 1, 2002
Today was easter sunday. I started the day by looking around my room for goodies left by the easter bunny. To my delight I found a fiddle, a super nintendo, and a used tupperware container. I then realized that these were things I already owned. This did not serve to abate my joy at finding them however. I decided to have an easter egg hunt, so before breakfast I hid various candies around my room. After breakfast I proceeded to try and find them again. I've been finding more all afternoon!!! I also sat down and wrote an engish sonnet about a grapefruit. I put the link to it further up this page :]
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Problems with diodes
Posted Mar 29, 2002
Today it was a brilliantly sunny day. I decided that the beast thing to do on a brilliantly sunny day (especially a day when my Power Machines lecture was cancelled) was to build a robot. The robot in quesiton was to be a robot of the line-following nature (that is, a robot that tracks lines by bouncing Infra-red light off the ground and measuring how much bounces back).
The robot (whom I think I will call "CCtron" unitl I find a better name) already had the brain, written in assembler code and burned onto a PIC microprocessor, but was in dire need of a body. I proceeded to remedy this situation by removing the innards of a remote control car and splicing CCTron's microbaord into the newly vacated chassis.
Next was to build a good set of eyes for my new friend. By eyes, I mean a set of 5 infra-red diode emitter /reciever pairs. The installation of these eyes proved to be a problem. For some reason I just couldn't get them to respond to ground brightness changes by more than a fraction of a Volt. It may have been a problem with the resistors, but I can't be sure.
After spending an hour or so pondering over the situatuion, I decided that a myopic robot was better than none, packed up CCtron, and went home for a nice dinner. Who needs a working robot anyway, when you have sunshine and snacks. Maybe tommorow I will try to get CCtron working (or maybe I will sleep in and clean my domicile, who knows!)
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