Long time no post isn't it.
Well, I'm in my final year at college, in case you didn't already know, and it's exam season
Luckilly for me though my last exam is tomorrow, also midsummers day, and also the birthday of a really woosome person
Exam boredom:
During my exams I always take a graphical calculator in with me, and when I finish the paper and have spare time till the end of the exam I usually write a program.
Last year I made a guess the number game, Pong and a start on Space invaders. (Note: I use a Sharp EL9900, so it's only a really simple basic, runs slow as hell! )
This year however I decided on a change. I started with making a windows-screensaver clone. The Starfield looked a bit nifty, but so slow with hundreds of 'stars' being blitted to the screen in a giant GOTO loop!
So in the end I tarted up an old drawing tool I made. Kinda like an etch-a-sketch. Only it has a rubber too:
As you can see, I may just have failed that Computing unit 5 exam!
Polarized light fun:
I read this a while back and gave it a go today, using my old Sandisk Sansa's screen as a filter on the camera lens:
Nifty effect, like oil on water.
Speaking of the Sansa
I finally got me a new MP3 player, in the mail as we speak!
So what to do with the old one I hear you ask. Well, dismantle if of course!
Once the broken screen was gone I had to think of a cool plan, so after a bit of thought about plans ranging from glorified paperweights to a nifty blue night-light I chose the idea of plain USB storage. It is 6GB after all!
But the gap where the screen was seemed a bit un-sightly, untill Phil suggested I use the sticker that came on the Sansa when I first bought it to cover the hole. A bit of celotape later and It's a vision of beauty!
In other non-tech news:
There was rather a large storm here last night. I only sustained one tech victim all evening, which is good as I have no surge protection!
So lets have a minute of silence for my ADSL line filter:
Well, I'm in my final year at college, in case you didn't already know, and it's exam season
Luckilly for me though my last exam is tomorrow, also midsummers day, and also the birthday of a really woosome person
Exam boredom:
During my exams I always take a graphical calculator in with me, and when I finish the paper and have spare time till the end of the exam I usually write a program.
Last year I made a guess the number game, Pong and a start on Space invaders. (Note: I use a Sharp EL9900, so it's only a really simple basic, runs slow as hell! )
This year however I decided on a change. I started with making a windows-screensaver clone. The Starfield looked a bit nifty, but so slow with hundreds of 'stars' being blitted to the screen in a giant GOTO loop!
So in the end I tarted up an old drawing tool I made. Kinda like an etch-a-sketch. Only it has a rubber too:
As you can see, I may just have failed that Computing unit 5 exam!
Polarized light fun:
I read this a while back and gave it a go today, using my old Sandisk Sansa's screen as a filter on the camera lens:
Nifty effect, like oil on water.
Speaking of the Sansa
I finally got me a new MP3 player, in the mail as we speak!
So what to do with the old one I hear you ask. Well, dismantle if of course!
Once the broken screen was gone I had to think of a cool plan, so after a bit of thought about plans ranging from glorified paperweights to a nifty blue night-light I chose the idea of plain USB storage. It is 6GB after all!
But the gap where the screen was seemed a bit un-sightly, untill Phil suggested I use the sticker that came on the Sansa when I first bought it to cover the hole. A bit of celotape later and It's a vision of beauty!
In other non-tech news:
There was rather a large storm here last night. I only sustained one tech victim all evening, which is good as I have no surge protection!
So lets have a minute of silence for my ADSL line filter:
on June 22, 2007, 4:53 pm
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on June 24, 2007, 11:30 pm
Hows you been? Surviving without our daily dose of Eddie?
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