Overhaul and Changes

It has been more than a year since I last updated this blog. I had always thought it was only a few months, and was genuinely surprised that this blog was started in 2010. The rising of microblogging sites like Facebook and Twitter, where updates are almost daily or real-time, is pushing the traditional weblog into extinction. The weblog, however, has one feature those microblogging sites lack: long, detailed updates. Everything changes too fast in microblogging sites, and people would probably not spend 5 minutes reading one update.

This blog used to be about the frontier of technology, interesting electronic facts, tutorials, and stuff. To be honest, I had troubles keeping up with all this fancy stuff. I always feel like I am living in the stone age.

And that is why I have an idea lately: To change this blog into a programming logbook.



I have done quite a handful of hobby electronic projects, from simple flashing lights to keypad to servo motors; but I have not been doing a good job in keeping a log about all the projects. Soon, I would forget about all the code I have written.

A group project in my university helped shape this idea. My group members are quite organized, keeping a log of everything we have done. It is actually a requirement for our subject, else I think we would not have done this.

But the point is, that log-keeping came in very handy. We were able to track our progress and tackle any problems that we realized after a period of time.

Hence, this blog will serve as a logbook for me from now on, hopefully to record all the explanations and codes in case I want to revisit the projects in the future, and also to provide readers with an easy-to-understand guide for what I have been doing.

Currently, I have two major projects in mind:

1. Analog-to-digital data logger, also known as data acquisition (DAQ)
2. Light following miniature robot head

Hopefully, I will have the determination to keep updating this blog that will entail my progress in those projects, and some smaller side projects too.