~ no good deed goes unpunished ~



Friday, May 19, 2006

Transformers





Some pics from my cell


My VS-1824CD 24-bit Digital Studio Workstation.


A pic of my '93 Lincoln Continental

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Lg pm-225

A message from my new phone. :-P
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LG PM-225 Features


Full-color internal and external LCDs
Built-in VGA CMOS digital camera with 8x digital zoom, customizable color effects, and self-portrait capability with flip closed
WAP 2.0 with one-touch access button and Openwave browser including JPEG, BMP, WBMP, GIF, PNG and WPNG image support
Sprint PCS Vision enabled for picture, ringer and J2ME game downloads
Full-duplex speakerphone and CMX 32-chord polyphonic sound support
Voice Memo Recording for up to 30 memos up to 3 total minutes
Personal organizer with Calendar, Scheduler, Alarm Clock, and Notepad
Tools including World Clock, Calculator, and Ez Tip Calc

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

morph the cat


donald fagen new LP...morph the cat...

also:

4/30/2006

Dates have been announced for the Steely Dan / Michael McDonald tour!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

LED Throwie Talkie

If you made a led throwie, you can add some flavor by adding morse code...for more goto:

Throwie Talkie



.include "tn45def.inc"

; This program generates morse code on keyout (active low)
; in response to switch closures on keyin which is also
; echoed to keyout. Keying speed is controled by pi.
;
; ATtiny45
; --v--
; rst pb5 - - vcc
; pi pb3 - - pb2 sck
; po pb4 - - pb1 miso keyin -----O--->O--- gnd
; gnd - - pb0 mosi keyout --+-UUUUUU--- vcc
; ----- +---<----- gnd
; 8Mhz
;
; (c) 2006 Ward Cunningham
; Released under GPL v2 or higher


.set keyout =pb0
.set keyin =pb1

.def a =r17
.def b =r18
.def c =r19

.def char =r20

.include "bynase2.inc" ; uses r12-r16

reset:
ldi a,$9e
out osccal,a
sbi ddrb,keyout

loop:
ldi zl,low(ascii*2)
ldi zh,high(ascii*2)
rcall text
rjmp loop

text:
lpm char,z+
cpi char,0
breq tex1
push zl
push zh
rcall send
pop zh
pop zl
rjmp text
tex1:
ret

send:
mov zl,char
subi zl,'a'
brmi sen2
subi zl,low(-(morse*2))
ldi zh,0
sbci zh,high(-(morse*2))
lpm char,z ; 3 ticks for fetch
rjmp code
sen2:
ldi char,0b10000000

code:
lsl char
brne cod0
rcall tick ; letter space
rcall tick
ret
cod0:
cbi portb,keyout
brcc cod1
rcall tick ; dah
rcall tick
cod1:
rcall tick ; dit
sbi portb,keyout
rcall tick ; element space
rjmp code

tick:
mov c,byin ; use pi
com c
lsr c
subi c,-40
tic0:
rcall byop ; get pi
ldi b,7
tic1:
dec a
brne tic1
dec b
brne tic1
dec c
brne tic0
ret

ascii:
.db "now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country "
.db "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back ",0

morse:
.db 0b01100000,0b10001000,0b10101000,0b10010000
.db 0b01000000,0b00101000,0b11010000,0b00001000
.db 0b00100000,0b01111000,0b10110000,0b01001000
.db 0b11100000,0b10100000,0b11110000,0b01101000
.db 0b11011000,0b01010000,0b00010000,0b11000000
.db 0b00110000,0b00011000,0b01110000,0b10011000
.db 0b10111000,0b11001000