I added a little photoresitor mini drum to my instrument. Photoresitors are so fun, now I finally understand why the sidekick backlight goes on in the dark.

It basically lights up leds and plays a random series of frequencie sif the potentiometer reading is zero. When the freq is divisable by 54 with no remainder it plays SOS, if you twist the potentiometer it leaves the programmed tune and plays your frequency and turn the red LED to solid and the green flickers with the pattern.





Now to build a circuit board for it.

I spe tthe night working on my eletcornics projects. I finally got my intrument to play a little song with the led lighting up along the way. I need more resistors and some other stuff tomorrow. I am also going to learn java so I can work a pik chip and program my cell-phone. It was actually pretty fun once I got to interface with the computer.

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If you play this while watching the animate dgif you get a petty good idea of how the whole night felt.

Driving home down main street today I saw this sign for the marines or the army. I had to get out and take a picture because I thought it was so totally stupid. I can't believe this is their slogan. I also can't believe that the poor people in the black neighborhood where it is located could fall for this ad. It says, "Pain is weakness leaving the body." I thinks its really ridiculous to have an ad like that. That statment is obviously not true. Especially in the context of the neighborhood, and the two hospitals, one being roswell park, that are only 5 minutes away.

Underneieth the sign was all this trash. I wonder why the army doesn't clean it up because it makes the ad look even more trashy.





While on Main Street I thought about how moving to Linwood changed my life so much. I might as well have moved out to the country as I never go to elmwood anymore and have no idea what is happening 2 blocks down. Is the coop built yet?

Today is going to be a crazy day which will start out with a new laptop to program the site with. (e:ajay), this means I really have to pick up the linux disks now cause there is no point in starting with the 9.0 disks I have when i could just start with 9.2 :)

Then I have to plan for class, grade some homework, and begin working on som emajor coding projects along with finsihing all my paperwork to graduate which is sue march 1st!!!