ArduiNOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! How The Microcontroller Is Ruining My Life…

AA1F took one look at the TV tray full of wires, computers, circuit boards, the giant face of Paul McWhorter talking out Arduino lesson 29, and my body tangled in a blanket awkwardly positioned amongst rearranged couch cushions, shook his head, and quietly went up to bed. It wasn’t the first time…

Ok, for all I know that never happened. How would I know? I was asleep. My very last shred of wakefulness snuffed out by the fact that the push button LED dimmer with a warning buzzer breadboard contraption (who doesn’t need one of those?!) wasn’t working. The code compiled fine. But the anticipated “1”s on the serial monitor did not occur. I pushed the button and nothing happened. NOTHING! Except the effect it had on my eyelids. Those little fleshy window curtains for my peepers turned into sandbags and a moment later I was dreaming about a large house cat slowly and methodically pushing me off the couch. Except that last part wasn’t actually a dream and it is amazing how effective a kitty can be at moving a full grown sleeping human. The utter disappointment and shame of seeing that single unilluminated red diode…sitting there….doing nothing…not emitting a shred of light…the torturous heartbreak…if the damn thing had just lit up like it was supposed to I wouldn’t feel this…this….sleepy…

The lows and the highs of an arduino addiction.

There are still 39 lessons to go. Thirty-Nine! That’s at least 20 more hours of arduino instruction. Not to mention I won’t move on until this project works. And after these are done, the goal is to build an arduino FM receiver with maybe the RDA5807M chip. I am still contemplating the route of my inevitable descent into this black hole of tech. However the downward spiral has most certainly begun…

Your obsessive friend,

KM1NDY