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Hospitals are where sick people stay sick and healthy people go to get sick...

 

Fuck .. I have to get a new computer. Not sure where I'm going to go. Seems like everything know s when to break. Another500 hundred fucking dollars

 

guess ive been lucky

never had problems with mine...i even still have my first one i keep that one in my room for streaming movies and surfing at night...still works fine even after i yanked that cd drive out of it after getting pissed off at it constantly popping open..that one needs hinges and i already went through 3 sets so now it just stays open all the time on a table (i only own laptops)

i have a little netbook too for taking outside and running car shit...but i barely use it...that one cost me $5 at the recycle place

 

i just drank a crapload of prune juice

pun intended

 

time for a Hyster belly dump

 

I paid less than that at Best Buy. This machine runs like a scared rabbit.

 

most of the time he's right about that, you know... (that it will cost around that to get a decent machine.)

 

newer, built this building in 2007, but childrens hospital of colorado has been a fixture for more than 100 years. hubby spent time at the former location as an infant, he was less than 2 lbs at birth.

 

fucking taking forever for the replybox to open up.. 450.00 and a 50$ rebate.

cursor not showing up on this bing shit browser ...

 

Hello.

 

I love you wont you tell me your name...

 

Hello

 

Finally got my hexadecimal clock's accuracy to an acceptable level (i think).

It was losing about 2 seconds a day, so after letting it run for a week I did the math and added some software correction. Every 4 ticks, a tiny bit is added to that "second" to make it just a bit longer (tiny fraction of a second), and then every 820 seconds we add a different slightly longer length to the tick there. It's such a small amount that you'd never notice those particular seconds being longer, but it does add up to a bit over 2 seconds a day. Not sure what went wrong to make this necessary, I originally chose the 8.192MHz crystal (after prescaler real clock speed is 1.024MHz) precisely because it should have made this kind of adjustment unnecessary since that frequency should divide down to an integer .. BUT, that's the nominal frequency. Could have been my capacitors were too big, I'm not sure but the software correction I just did ought to work, though it's kinda worrying because although it works for THIS build, the inaccuracy isn't guaranteed to be constant so this probably wouldn't work in a mass produced device. Someone suggested a 32.768Khz crystal like are used in digital watches but this microcontroller can't use those and I already started with this hardware so I'm making do. I'm a perfectionist though, and the tiniest thing wrong will bug me to no end. I did synchronize two mechanical clocks and let them run for a week ... they are now 12 seconds off from each other, which is a bit better than my clock was BEFORE the adjustment so that makes me feel better that it now should be at least better than those clocks.

Anyway, the IC at the top left on the upper breadboard (which is pretty much dedicated to the display) is a Texas Instruments TPIC6C595 8-bit SIPO shift register with open drain ouputs for driving the 7-segment display segments in a multiplexed fashion, being refreshed at 62.5hz so it appears the entire thing is lit at the same time, but really only one digit in the display is lit at any one time, just cycled through very quickly much like an old televison draws each scanline but it appears the entire screen is updated at once. The IC on the bottom right is the microcontroller itself, an Atmel ATtiny2313a. There's a switch next to the board with the pushbuttons on it kind of hidden behind some wires that will be used to turn the alarm on/off, which currently doesn't do anything when the alarm is reached but it does let you set it and it just kinda sits there in the MCU memory waiting to be used. I just have to add a buzzer or something to let you know when the alarm time has been reached and maybe flash the display or something. All features are controlled with just those two buttons and the switch (and actually quite easy to operate), though I will probably add a third button for snooze or something to get the alarm to stop. I really doubt I'd ever use the alarm feature though, but I plan to implement it for completeness' sake. This is a project I'm doing for a class and the focus is on software, it just so happens that all this hardware stuff was necessary and became to kinda dominate the project. As you can see, when I took this picture earlier, the time was "0xbd3F"

 

That's about the best you're going to do.

 

Hello darkness my old friend

 

Pos won't connect to the internet, keeps saying limited but.its tethered usb.. Fuck this shit.

 

Iv'e Come To Meet With You Again.... :book:



Cheers Glen.

 

What the bloody hell are you doing up at this hour

 

How Dare You Speak To Me Like That.... ....It's 10-16am Here And I Am Admiring Last Nights

Beauty Sleep In The Mirror........Damn, Failed Again.... :bigcry:



Cheers Glen.

 

That's impressive Ace I could not do that.