There was a question on Peg Solitaire on the first homework for Stanford’s AI Class. It looked like an interesting puzzle so I searched Ebay for one. Today, I received this fully observable, deterministic, discrete, and non-adversarial puzzle in the mail. It has a wooden base and metal pegs. Apparently, it was made in the [...]
I was inspired to learn how to solve a Rubik’s Cube after watching a kid on Youtube solve one in mere seconds. Finding a solution to the Rubik’s Cube is not difficult nowadays. Many solutions are very well documented on the internet. The hard part, I am discovering, is gaining speed. I started with the [...]
After scoring a free oscilloscope on Craigslist, I wanted to get a function generator to test it out. I narrowed my choices down to two kits: the Elenco FG-500K and the FunGen Function Generator by nuxie1.com. Both seem to use the XR2206 Function Generator chip. The FG-500K kit produces sine, triangle, and square waves from [...]
Hello World! Testing out an ITDB02 LCD and shield from IteadStudio. It is a 65K color, 320*240, 2.4 inch TFT LCD screen with an integrated touch controller and SD card socket. All for a little over twenty bucks. The LCD is running on top of a Seeduino v2.2. I will try to write a review [...]