Memos From the Cube

Whew, three days already? With University sucking up my time like a giant Dyson vacuum cleaner, the days just fly by. Unlike our expensive Dyson however, Uni’s unlikely to randomly stop working numerous times and be returned with missing parts after being repaired in the near future.

I’ve gotten back into MyUSB work, concentrating on cleaning up the device code before moving on to correcting the host code. I’ve added a few constants to the code, which clear up the “magic” number compares for the request data in the Chapter 9 processing routine. In order to test out the code more thoroughly, I’ve added in basic USART library code which will allow for easy testing of the different USB events, etc.

Speaking of the USBKEY board, I darn near destroyed it while trying to jerry-rig up the USART to my serial cable and almost shorting out the board in the process. Seems bare wires are a dangerous thing — best to wait until Tom manages to create his breakout boards for the USBKEY to ensure reliability (and my safety!).

Today I received a very nice new electronic toy from a company that shall not be named. I can’t wait until it is released officially so I can talk about it – I can definitely see it being a popular item. Alas, yet another project to take some of my attention!