For this year’s Winter Solstice project, I made a “SleepLight” for Clara. She’s not very good at reading time on conventional clocks, but it seemed useful for her to be able to tell when it’s bedtime and getting-up time, and how long there is till the next significant time. Hence this diurnal clock slash night light. read more...
Since I made my first mod to the PICkit 2 applet source, Microchip completely rewrote the applet. They use .NET, which I consider to be pretty much a virus, but I was considering getting all the MS development tools installed and getting up to speed with C# to work with it.
But then I realized that it would be simple to just automate the existing applet with an external program, and that would mean I wouldn’t have any changes to integrate into the Microchip source (as well as not having the dreaded MS tools installed). read more...
