For the past two weekends I’ve been working on organizing and executing my Eagle project, which is to construct a pair of lecterns for Lynbrook High School. Noticing that we have a shortage of such pieces of furniture, and that they are rather expensive to acquire directly, I decided to build these lecterns to benefit both the faculty and the student population at my school.
I’ve been playing around with this design for about a week. Tell me what you think about it?
Linode’s Fremont facility had a power outage yesterday at about 8:36. Full services were restored at 2:36, six hours later, with no data loss. Service was good, but I’m wondering if there’s any reimbursement for this kind of thing.
It’s been forever since I posted here..eheh. Thanksgiving’s coming up, so hopefully a little bit of “relaxation” (read: studying). Lynbrook Vertigo is up now, all nice and pretty. Probably one of the best websites we’ve had, if I do say so myself. Robotics is also starting up, both the club and personal projects. I’ve begun to convert my code from C to C++, just as an exercise in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and have run into rather (un)amusing bugs: “libm.a not found” (math library not found), “libArduino.a not found” (I was compiling it… and it said itself wasn’t there), and more. I’ve got maybe 85% of the functionality up, just missing the piezo and some display routines. Floating-point math still doesn’t work, so I’m forced to (as opposed to wanting to) use purely integer math.
I’m actually doing Science Fair this year, with my partner (not in crime) Cynthia! She’s totally awesome at math and science and such, so this should be good. We’re going to be making some distress radiobeacons, for search-and-rescue purposes. If we’re lucky, they might even work! I’ll try to keep everyone posted on its progress.
Also been doin’ some calligraphy lately. Not very good at it, but it’s good for my handwriting – I’ve noticed a marked improvement over last year. This should prove beneficial for APLAC and APUSH, both of which require absurd amounts of hand-abuse. Fun!
As a result of all this schoolwork and extracurriculars piling up, I haven’t actually gone to any debate tourneys this year (as of yet) =(! I’ll have to get to one soon. I guess I’ll try to write more later.
Hey all,
Today I finalized my migration of Aeturnalus to linode. The reasons behind the move are primarily technical, ranging from rather high downtimes to annoying and useless support and slow connection speeds. As Linode is a VPS, or a virtual private server, I get the opportunity to administrate the lower-level functions for myself, which is quite useful. The speed that comes with it is probably noticeable to you, as well. Most of the sites I host will be properly migrated soon, and are only limited by my time. Please comment if you find anything broken and/or not working properly.
