Author Archives: M. Eric Carr

Thatsa lotta beer!

Posted on 2009-08-10 by M. Eric Carr

The statute of limitations is up on this by now, I think… Back in the day, several ne’er-do-well CS students were enrolled in a certain CS150/151 class/lab, taught by a certain D. Ray with a certain M. Ghose as a … Continue reading →

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Linus Has Spoken

Posted on 2009-08-06 by M. Eric Carr

I was reading a recent article (“Real Men program in C”) recently, and came across a link in the comments to Linus Torvalds’ opinion on the whole C-vs-C++ thing. Let’s just say he doesn’t mince words. (This is an excerpt, … Continue reading →

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Random Thought Of The Day

Posted on 2009-08-05 by M. Eric Carr

I wanna know: Why does Windows’ Task Manager list the size of the “System Idle Process” as nonzero? Also, why is it different, on different computers? My desktop apparently takes 16K of memory to do absolutely nothing, while my laptop … Continue reading →

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A step in the right direction

Posted on 2009-07-23 by M. Eric Carr

Well, that would explain it… The reason that the quadruped robot was doing the “funky chicken” instead of walking smoothly was mostly due to a major bug in the gait angle calculations. The angle of the leg is the sum … Continue reading →

Posted in Coding, Digital, PIC Microcontrollers, Robotics, SIGMA Walking Robot | 1 Comment