Yet another zombie game
Yeah. We need another zombie game, seriously.
Dune and its children
Dune is a fantasic book. It's clever, interesting, and entertaining. The audiobook edition I got from the library was extremely well-produced, and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it.
New phone, WP7 or Android?
I've been using WM5/WM6 phones for a LONG time (since way back when I got the hand-me-down HTC Apache), and that ship went down shortly after I acquired my most recent phone, the Touch Pro 2. It's coming up on time to renew my handset hardware, so now I have this dilemma:
Solder joint anxiety
I have a condition known as "solder joint anxiety." This means that every single time I make a solder joint on a PC board, I'm absolutely, positively certain that THIS will be the joint that fails at a later, extremely inconvenient time. Every single one. If there are any existing solder joints I've made that haven't failed yet, it's because they're just waiting for an even more inconvenient time than now.
Construction has begun!
Finally, after many many hours of theorizing, prototyping, and breadboarding, construction has finally begun. The depressing thing is that I am positive that anyone with any experience in this sort of thing would've come immediately to this or an even better solution in mere minutes. The experience of doing the design has been as enlightening as it has been frustrating. It's humbling to start over in a completely new field like this, if even only as a hobby. I'm knowledgable enough in software design now that I rarely come up against the sort of roadblocks I have in this project anymore. I just wish there was a fast-track to experience :)
That super-cheap logic analyser you're looking for?
It's called the Mini Logic Analyser and it's located here.