I have no life.
Heh, join the club ;-)
@DanDude: I made that robot over grade 8-9 which would be... lets see... at least 7-8 years ago, so unfortunately I didn't really have a camera let alone the internet at that time :-(
It was just a two-wheeled thing with an arm & gripper. Everything including the drive-wheel gearboxes were assembled myself using cogs out of of god knows what and was never really reliable. The only usefull thing it did was line-following using LDRs which make pretty awful sensors.
I may have a .D64 of my software for it somewhere; I remember spending half my time coding a screensaver (animated stick figures IIRC) into the menu system.
I eventually killed my C64 when I "integrated" it into my most ambitious project ever - a security door for my bedroom with automatic sliding door. I used the guts out of a cattle prod to electrify the outer handle if the incorrect code was entered too many times, unfortunately I had the HV wires running parallel to the wires running to the C64 expansion interface. Arcs and sparks, then nothing ;-( Then I saved up and bought an Amiga 1200.
God, makes me want to pull out the C= 64 system and play with it once more!
A while ago I picked up an emulator and started using it - you'd be surprised how much fun you can have even if it's not the real thing :-)
Sigh... small micros like the C64 are easy for someone to eventually understand _EXACTLY_ everything that is going on inside. I remember when I was competent at ASM I thought I was such a farking genius :lol: but no kids these days will get to experience that..
That reminds me, I still want to build a second SID chip daughterboard and add a cpu fan to the case! Gotta get myself a 1581 drive so I can make backups to my large 5 1/4" floppy library!
Wasn't there some tracks you could splice near the SID chip to separate the three voices and get pseudo-stereo?
About doing the backups: I made a 1541->PC printer port cable and spent _DAYS_ backing up my 5 1/4" floppies onto a HDD in .D64 format. From memory it took over 2 minutes per side. I got around halfway through and left it for a while, then I "lost" all my disks during a move :-(
- Paul