Wordpress version 2.5 has hit the internets. I’ve just completed the updating process, and the site is now using the latest 2.5 build. I’m pretty impressed with it so far, it seems all my functions and plugins are still in tact, minus a few minor problems that I’ve corrected (by either fixing or disabling). So far, everything seems okay. The auto update feature for the blog and plugins is really nice, and worked flawlessly on the few things I tested it with. The visual/html post editor updates are also nice (although unfortunately a few of my plugin’s TinyMCE buttons have disappeared, which I’m sure will be sorted out eventually). I’m going to be messing around and testing the features today and as the weeks pass, but I’m sure none of ya’ll will see any of that.

As always, if anything is acting wonky on the site, feel free to comment on this post, or head over to the about page and fill out the form.  Thanks, and Stay Tuned!

So, I’m a pretty big fan of 8 bit stylings. I’m especially fond and nostalgic when it comes to 8bit sounds and music made with 8bit sounds. So when my friend Ben pointed me in the direction of MilkyTracker, I couldn’t pass up playing with it. Turns out it’s super fun. I’m not very musically oriented. I had a brief stint as a flautist in school, but I really only retained the ability to read sheet music and perhaps keep a beat better than your average person, but even that may be a stretch. In other words, I’m not so good at the music making. Despite this, I had fun playing around with it, and was able to churn out a little something. Check it out of you would like. Some more may begin to pepper this site occasionally.

So, I wanted to get into soldering, circuit boards, micro controllers, and all that super fun tech nerd stuff. So I went ahead and bought myself some supplies.

Then I got some soldering tools and started to get down and dirty with circuit boards. I haven’t soldered anything in a VERY long time, and this was my first excursion into soldering electronics. It actually went quite well. I only screwed up a few times, and each time it wasn’t something major or unfixable.

In the end I ended up with a working arduino board, and a prototyping shield to test out circuits before committing them.

Check out the full gallery of stuff here.

Also, the most FUN PART, is this video of me (finally) working out how to fade LEDs using the arduino. I created a little makeshift cube, with LEDs fading in different patterns to create a color shifter. It’s very purty. (it had to be super dark in the room so I could effectively pick up the color shift on camera)