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I'm listening to the sunscreen song right now, It's sort of a combination between a graduation speech and a smooth jazz song. I dunno, I think it's inspirational. Really makes me think about my life in the future. Will I be successful? Will I get married, who knows.

I've also started a journal, just so I can look back in the future and say "hehe, I was such an idiot". Would be really good when I am old and not doing anything, then I can read it.

I've also just finished a slight modification on the watch. Now its not working. Me no know.

*sigh*

no, its not a new release of windoze, I'm creating a new software for the GPR. Finally it runs on linux and, in my opinion, works faster than the windoze version.

Enhancements will be:  a faster text handling system,
                                   faster graphics buffering,
                                   greater support to hardware (desktop stuff mainly),
                                   new modular design for easy enhancements,
                                   and I won't have to rew...
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Now that the watch is fully put together, I can work on other projects. Still might need to work on the watch though, battery is draining way too fast.

After I fix the watch, I am abandoning the world of PICs because of their horrible architecture to work on something more reasonable. My first project with an AVR will be an Automatic Password Input Device. I've decided to name it APhID.
Rather sweet innit?

I also need to work on: the new GPR software,
    getting the watch to work properly,
    ...
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Last night my dad finished the power board for my watch. Now the entire thing resides in a dental floss container with the iPod mini battery powering it.
I took it to school today, everybody was impressed by it, they'd better be. Damn straight.

Also, were not going to Malaysia this, or next year.
It really sucks.
Hopefully they'll be able to send the stuff that I want from there.
it's really mean for Air-Asia to have tickets immediately before exams so then I can't go.

Life goes on.

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Within the last few days, I got my watch working. Finally.
It currently tells the time and the date, and you can set the time and date.

What were you expecting? lasers?
it's not as if it is really going to be that good.

No, really. It's gonna get better.

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Within the space of a week my life went from FRICKEN AWESOME to meh.
First I found out that my dads workplace got sold to agilent, as really big company that does pretty much everything. Feet in all buckets, you might say.
Just a few hours ago, I came back from maroondah dam and found out that one of our chickens got eaten by a dog.
Kind of sad really.

I've also decided to go to monash university once I leave school, hopefully doing some work to eventually pay for HECS.
Sort of off-topic but I gu...
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Sorry for not posting for so long, too much stuff has been happening in my life to slow down.

Just a few minutes ago, my dad and I finished milling the boards we had been sitting on. Namely my watch, the LNA and the avr32 development board. Watch had a few bugs, but most of them were ironed out before we milled them.
Just a picture to add some substance to words.

I also had my birthday, quite momentous if you ask me. 16, sure is a big number. *sigh*. hopefully this year will be better than the l...
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Finally, Farnell have ordered the parts that we need to make the first 'two digit watch' prototype.
Can't wait to get it and finally test the firmware.

In other news, the GPR's LNA is also going to be made so we'll be able to see things as clearly 3m down as right near the surface. Can't wait.

My birthday's also coming up, in three days to be exact. I'm hoping that my parents will get me a new graphics card. A 9800GT to be exact. Older tech, but still high performance compared to what I have now...
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I've redesigned the watch YET AGAIN to make it easier overall to build.
Essentially I've downgraded it, yet made it smaller and lighter.
It now uses an iPod nano battery, the AVR32 in previous posts, a 128x32 lcd and various other things.
Should be interesting how it turns out.

I have two choices with the screen, they're essentially the same yet different.
A blue one with white text or the white one with black text.
I prefer the blue one, but its harder to read without the back light.
Post your an...
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For the past week I have been at work experience. It's harder than school, but also more fun.
Best of all, you actually get paid! Yup, may not be much ($5 a day >.<) but in that case, its way better than school.
Daniel, my boss, bought me a new keyboard. I don't know why, but on Tuesday we just went out and spent $70 on a brand new keyboard. Wow.

At work I am doing programming, for a commercial cause, yes. My code won't actually get to be in a commercial device (I wish!) but It's just to test th...
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