Mad Human Mad Machine

See the picture?

It reminds me the sarcasm that lies behind all the thing I do in this day and age.

But when trying to do a big ass project like a robotic killing sentinel from hell you’d thing I’d start big. I’d rather not, as we all live a land called Malaysia and last time I checked it isn’t in one of a fantasy land that some people really like to think of.

Property Defence System

So, I started out with starting to learn how to make the Arduino UNO(http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno) work simple tasks like just making an LED blink.

Its a MIRICLE OF ENGINEERING

While it’s not, most of electronics students have never ever really seen a programmable IC more less using it.

And then I learned how to make several more LED’s blink separately.

And then I thought of using my new uber cool LED that I had bought for something unrelated.

For now, the LED’s are blinking and do nothing else but blink. I should really put a video, but it seemed too stupid to see some LED’s blink or marvel at some shiny metal.

I did test the code for some servo movement. As the sweeping movement code isn’t working with the Arduino, somehow the code for the control of servos with a potentiometer is working. And this particularly pleases me. As I thought there might be some problem with the Italian made Arduino UNO. As the first picture stated, the simplest might probably be completely wrong. That is what I am very worried about.

http://www.arduino.cc/

http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage

I’ll post the pictures about the servo testing later if I have time or if I get some Redbull and some Gatorade mixed to get some GetaBull. That’ll make my eyes grow some hair and make me think about more intricate engineering'.

Other daily related stuff

See that big logo up there?

No, it isn’t about making a nuclear fusion and making a hydrogen bomb. It’s AMD Fusion. The makers of the wildly six core quad crossfire solutions for the gaming head decided to make a laptop that could be used where most laptops can’t these days, on your lap. Their notebooks offerings before this were fast and suitable for the portable gamer but could be used also to reheat your entire house during a snowstorm. And don’t think I’m making a joke here. I’m living in the tropics. I know what a heat problem is where there is one.

To the matter of fact, I had a AMD notebook made by HP Compaq. It died once. I suspected because it was the heat it produced and it damaged the motherboard and did horrible things to annoy me. But then, it was within its one year warranty and all was nice until last semester break. It didn’t start. I knew the dejavu feeling when it started to make some hardware problems like having problems in booting. Now? Its a dead notebook gathering dust in my room.

As I had a desktop capable of making children cry and kick the living eyes out of some unrelenting pathetic unpatriotic laptop user saying his laptop can play some old boring stupid racing game, I had to travel. And portability seemed a bit friendly concept this time. So I decided that an 11.6 incher screen coupled with fantastic battery performance and capable of playing my HD content stored on my external drive would be perfect.

Then some moronic first time computer user who has 3 month experience with a DSLR said to me, buy a netbook. All I did was laugh. And laugh I did. As netbooks were amazingly cheap and portable, it would be crying to its mother when I would play HD Youtube videos or play some full HD h.264 encoded video. Yet alone trying to run some game. Morons.

So what am I planning to buy?

Why else did I put the big fusion logo up there? I’d be buying an AMD Fusion of course. As Engadget’s article on the so call ‘Notbook’ explains, its the future.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/31/editorial-the-rise-of-the-notbook-the-fall-of-the-netbook/

And I’ve got my eyes on the HP Pavilion dmz1 and this baby will be on my watch list of priorities.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/17/hp-pavilion-dm1z-with-amd-fusion-review/

And I’m not gonna listen to someone who has a horrible laptop say that thing is ugly or anything. As this laptop would eat that thing like that thing was made of jelly.