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The big demo

My senior project

Tomorrow is the big day. Today could have been the big day, but when Ratso went to ask Dr. Flight if he'd like to see the Hamster demo a day early, Dr. Flight evinced no interest in seeing it a minute before he had to. Not that I can blame him. Look at it. The Hamsters are the green cards with all the wires hanging off.

When I go into the lab this afternoon, Mountain Girl and Ratso are working on the final report (or committing copyright violations on the school's wireless network).

"Did you get a new microcontroller from Dr. Smith?" I ask, wheeling my bookbag into the corner.

"Uh, no. Don't we need a new A/D too?" Ratso asks.

"No. Cali-boy and I fished one of the 'bad' ones out of the trash and it was okay. It only seemed to be bad because we using it with a bad microcontroller. So if you get a new microcontroller, we can get the system running with all three Hamsters and the Weather Hamster."

"Okay." Ratso vanishes out the door and reappears a minute (only a minute!) later with a fresh microcontroller. We program it and power everything up.

It all works! We don't get the magic smoke or anything.

213 words | May 2, 2005 09:01 PM | Ivory tower