projects...

Well, as of late i've started a few small projects to fill in some of that extra time that i don't have. They are as follows:

-I've gotten my hands on an older computer, Pentium4, 1Gb of Ram, 2 160Gb harddrives, that i am working on making my own little personal server to back up files, and such stuff as a server is used for making all my data accesible anywheres where the internet is accessible... I am using Ubuntu 8.10 server edition to do so, and its all in command line so its fun to learn.

-I found some really cheap Atmega8-16PU on ebay that i bought. these are small 8kb microcontrollers that i can program using the computer. At the moment i am designing an interface so that i can use the serial port on a computer to connect with the AVR(microcontroller), and then use them for some interesting small projects of which i haven't decided yet. Seeing i'm a big fan of open sourcing, i will be uploading schematics, source code, pictures, and such when it comes available.

so yeah other then that, i'm spending many hours in a week doing lab preps, which consist of alot of programming in C and assembly... the C stuff is fine but the assembly is torture because it is so anti-intuitive... but i'm making it through quite well in these courses, and the other classes are just lots and lots of math, and algebra, and some calculus, some circuit analysis and design... so yeah lots of fun...

well enjoy...