don’t miss out on the Gundem comment with a parody of fresh prince…

http://gizmodo.com/5402795/facebook-status-update-clears-teen-from-criminal-charges

Click link above for story and how to remove or prevent this from happening to you.  Most people who are able to jailbreak their phone should also know how to secure it, but that’s not always the case with people running scripts by hacks, where they don’t fully understand what they’re doing.

But I keep changing my lighting design for my first project – a six-sided gazebo.  I started with 4 clusters of three 5mm white LEDs along a 3 ½′ section. That’s twelve small LEDs to wire for one section.  I used 2 sections per side, 6 sides. I had 5 half sides built.  I was going to light only 3 of the six sides because the 12 LEDs in each of the 2 sections per side are very bright, but now I’ve changed the design to make one long 7′ section with six 10mm LEDs.  The larger LEDs don’t seem to be as bright but are more ambient and less directional.  6 sides times 6 LEDs means 36 of these larger LEDs instead of 2 halves per side times 4 clusters times 3 per cluster times 3 sides – 72 LEDs to wire. Much easier (less wiring) to just use the larger LEDs and have more ambient, less directional light.

I’ve 3 of the 6 sides finished.  I should be finished by this weekend, hang them and wire them into the 12 volt solar-powered rechargeable batteries and get a photo of it to post here.

Then from there, the next LED project is the convention display lights for Barbara “squeaks” Chapman.  Her lights are three 4′ sections of 8 blue 10mm LEDs – 24 total. They’re not specifically for lighting, but will work in attractor mode, flashing animations of lights to attract convention-goers to her table.  They’ll be powered and animated by either a PC laptop via USB or a battery-powered microcomputer.  I’m leaning toward the microcomputer, but will decide when I go to do the animations. Her next convention is next March 10-12, so I have plenty of time. I’ll post progress here as I get photos.

Here’s a few commands to get you started:

fluff, drink a cup of tea (Try milk, water, and soda, too. Try cups, bowls, glasses, etc)
eat a taco, fluff (type: !fridge look inside to see what’s available for fluff to eat.)

!score
!score top

See, you get points for giving drinks when the bot is thirsty and food when hungry. How many points depends on how thirsty and hungry fluff is, so if you wait a long time before giving the bot what it needs, you score larger.

There will be other things which give points, including some games.

Be sure to say hello to fluff and bye; hug fluff, also.

Oh, and you can also teach fluff things.

Just make sure you address fluff and use IS or ARE. Here’s some examples:

fluff, my TV is broken.
Transformers are robots in disguise, fluff.

My favorite command is: fluff, status
Give me some comments and I’ll tell you more about what you want to know!

PinkSodaPop likes to !fridge open and !fridge close …  If the door is already open, fluff will remind you to close it.  If you !fridge look you can see if it’s open or not.

The scoreboard is similar, another virtual object:  !score will tell you your place on the scoreboard, and !score look will show you the scoreboard with others’ scores on it.  You can ask for other people’s scores by name: !score Carl and you can even smell the scoreboard:  !score smell

What other virtual objects would you like?