Jorhlok

Me, my opinion, and things I do.

An Integer Only Software Synthesizer Takes its First Steps

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 12, 2012

Right, so after being dead for a few months, someone used phoenix down on me and so I made a cute little software synthesizer in plain C. The runtime uses only integers, so I’m hoping to port it to a microcontroller like the AVR in my Arduino. So far it’s done a monophonic rendition of the intro of the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme. It used a variable pulse width square wave with amplitude modulation. I just had to hard code the notes in C, which was laborious.

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The Certificate of the Esteemed Award for Excellence in Innovation in… Cart Pushing?

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 16, 2012

Last Thursday, I was drafted to cart pusher from my usual position of cashier. I’ve done this a handful of times. They’d ask me “Hey, for the last hour of your shift, can you help them push carts?” This time, though, I was to be doing it for the entire shift. I was scheduled for four and a half hours ending at eleven at night. This was due to there being only one cart pusher there at the time, possibly due to a call-in or something. An entire Walmart Supercenter parking lot during the evening is WAY too much for one guy, no matter how awesome his beard is. And thus, I was pushing carts that night.

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Facial Hair Update

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 11, 2012

Facial hair update. It’s growing longer, which is good. The color is surprising, though. It has significant red component in addition to my usual dark brown, as you can see in the picture below. Click on it to zoom in. Also, it’s itchy as hell. I started using conditioner in it. I guess I’ll see how that works.

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My Face and its Hair

2 Comments Posted by on June 3, 2012

Yesterday I went to work with styled facial hair. Historically I’ve shaved about once or twice per week. After a week nowadays it gets to a respectable length to style. Twice I’ve gone to see a movie with a friend with a goatee and mustache remaining and then shaved it off when I got home. Anyways, today I’ve taken pictures. I’ve also procured a pic of my face clean at Christmas 2011.

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Replicated Results: Camera Phone Microscope with a Water Drop

1 Comment Posted by on June 1, 2012

Here’s the link to the article I found: http://www.tested.com/news/how-to/3731-tested-enhanced-macro-iphone-photography-with-a-water-drop/

This article shows how you can take closeup images with any cheapo camera phone. Except they use the overblown iPhone.

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Happy Birthday to Me!

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 29, 2012

Here, on this Twosday, I have officially seen two whole decades. I also have two thousand dollars saved up. I woke up at 1 PM because my phone, and the alarm software on it, died. My plans for this summer are to move out of my parents home into some kind of apartment. I will probably get some computer certifications and try to move to a computer oriented job. I’ll expand upon my electronics and robotics hobbies and I’ll try to complete the game I’ve been working on with a friend. No details for you, yet!

Also, I figure that 2 decades is a nice round number to try to start cultivating facial hair.

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I Killed the Walmartians.

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 24, 2012

I decided to kill the walmartian posts and categories. I’m going to focus on the other, more useful things.

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My Legacy Lives On

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 13, 2012

Yesterday at work, a couple of members of the FIRST Robotics Team I was on, team 1723 F.B.I., came by my register and told me that two members achieved the “Joshua M. Brown award.” This is their award for attending robotics club the full four years in high school. It is named after the first student to achieve this, me!

 

As a side note, I’m a couple months behind blogging because I was sort of distracted by personal issues of both me and my best friend.

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Dissecting a $5 R/C Car

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 24, 2012

Here’s the first project I’m working on publicly. I’ve recently dissected an R/C car with my 9.1 megapixel point-and-shoot in hand. Also related, I’ve never used Flickr before. However, I decided that posting a bunch of pictures on this one page would be bulky and annoying, so I figured it out for you.

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Posting Schedule

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 16, 2012

Many blogs or other websites have posting shedules. They promise to post a certain amount of content.

So, I promise to post at least once a week. Why not? If I don’t do anything blog-worthy in an entire week, my life must be pretty uninteresting, huh?

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