Cantareus | October 28, 2008
I made my first microcontroller based robot over the weekend. It is far from finished. But it can drive around randomly. Getting something to move randomly was harder than it should have been. I realised overnight that I don’t actually need a random number generator if I want it to appear to move randomly. I [...]
Cantareus | October 23, 2008
I thought apple tart was apples on pastry with something sticky like egg to hold it all together. This recipe is a bit different. It’s more like apples cooked in soft dough. I made a few adjustments. The reason why I made it was to use up some apples so I didn’t use the canned [...]
Cantareus | October 22, 2008
So I found an interesting competition yesterday. Write a program in LOLCode to find square roots. I’ve never heard of this programming language before. It looks like the sort of programming language I would write. It’s kinda fun to play with. Although I do have a headache now. I wrote a small program to find [...]
Cantareus | October 16, 2008
I’ve been undertaking some more cooking adventures and the resulting muffins deserve a photo. I can’t say the same about my blueberry, apple and custard pie, but I think I’ll include a photo of it anyway. I used this recipe with a diced apple added and some blueberries subtracted. I only added the sugary topping [...]
Cantareus | October 15, 2008
Today was the competition day for the robots we built in our first year engineering class. I’m not sure the event deserves to be called robolympics but nevermind. It was fun. We didn’t win
Our robot was too slow and the gearbox fell apart during one of the six events. It was also the [...]