If My Parents Didn't Pay My Friends To Be My Friends...

Another paid poster revives this blog.

I'll try to blog a little, you know, like a real blogger.  But I'm not fooling anybody, and I really have to go to the bathroom, so this will be brief -- if we're lucky.

Last I checked, which was many months ago,  the damn dartboard worked.  I think I may have renamed it "Dartboarduino" or something clever like that.  I printed out new stickers for it and hung it on the wall and threw a few darts at it a couple of times.

I wrote a lame python script that had a simple menu and played a basic around-the-world-ish game.  It wasn't very cool, but proved that the thing worked.  I was running it on a raspberry pi to a small led tv and I think some of it was just too much graphics for the poor little pi.  I meant to get back to the software, but never did.

I also meant to rewrite the duino sketch to do different things with the LEDs, but never did.

I also meant to somewhat formalize the api/protocol/messaging thingies, but never did.

Instead, I started to write an Atari Adventure parody in pygame called "Amish Oddyssey" (see how I did that "odd" thing with the word "odyssey"? get it? ha?)   It looked like this the last time I worked on it a couple weeks ago:

Eli carries the scythe to the open doors of the red barn.

Eli Enters the Red Barn to find Schwartzentruber, the black angus, guarding the hand-made basket and assertively mooing to express her anxiety, which is a direct result of Eli's proximity to the basket.

Eli searches for the key to the white barn in the corn maze.

Eli captures the hand-made quilt from under the nose of Yoder, the seemingly disinterested purple hereford.

I thought, "I'll just finish this game real quick-like and then rewrite the dartboard game and then build my theremin and then write my novel and then direct my movie and then move on with my life."

I also recently received a top secret message from google saying that google code hosting is ceasing to be, and I will need to move my code somewhere else, like github.  Which I will do and I will tell all of you paid posters all about it in a new post, and then in 9 months you can comment here with something like, "This is great.  Keep up the great work.  How great is it? Great." and then you can do the same for the 6000 other blogs with no recent activity.

I'll also put my updated python code on github... and probably the code for this Amish Oddyssey travesty (the cows really "moo," so I have that going for me).

Must. Pee. Now.

Still Breathing

So, I'm still here and still of the opinion that I will finish this thing by the end of the summer.

I have done a little bit of work on the game engine over the past month, so will have to check my code into git for posterity.  I am still risking over-engineering the game engine, but we'll just have to wait and see... it might be worthwhile.

I forget just about everything I learned about the circuit and the arduino and the shift registers... and this thing that looks like the pictures in the last post is sitting on my desk, waiting for me to solder some more wires from some parts to some other parts.  Without this blog, it would be very difficult to know what goes where, sooooo, yay blog.

There were actually several page hits last month.... curious why people are looking at this gibberish and if any of it has ever been useful to anyone else.   Hmmm.

Maybe next post I'll have some of the python code checked in and some more soldering done... next soldering session I'd like to finish all the connections to and from the duino.

Trying not to let this project die...'cause I'm not letting myself build a theremin until I get this to work, and you know how much I want to build a theremin.