The 360 dpad is shitty shit shit.

Awesome :) Good work

I'm really liking the xbox one pad, too early to say if it's better or not. Build quality is definitely lower though :-(

The big flaw with the 360 was the d pad, although I never had much cause to use it.

So, we have 1 vote in favour of dpad, and two against. It doesn't get much more neck-and-neck that this.

I'm literally typing this with excitement.

Multiple button debounce with short and long press detection. Not terribly exciting but I'm happy with it.

The music made up for it.

Haha, glad you liked the music.

It's all relative.

That's what Einstein would like you to believe.

So would your 'auntie' Doris.

How do you know about Doris?

Everybody knows, and many have 'known', Doris. Your father was just one of many.

(see also: Greg's mum, a fine time had by all)

My father is Greg's mum?

I think it unlikely.

:(

Arduino alarm clock.

Lots of wires now. 3 buttons, LCD, transistor, shift register (only 3 pins required to arduino for LCD instead of 6), buzzer, RTC.



But no music. Should I add music?

I've got a load of stuff on order from China. Including shift registers, hopefully they'll do what I want and give me a load of extra pwm capable outputs, I need about 24.

Gosh, that's a lot of PWM outputs. A shift register will give up to 8 outputs from 1 pin but I think you can chain them for more? No idea about PWM with shift registers though.

I'm still waiting for bits. Another Arduino and the wireless transceivers for the clock. Some bits have come quick and others taking long time.

Yeah, I'll no doubt be waiting for the most important part of my bits to arrive last.

I should be able to daisy chain them to add more outputs. 24 PWM outputs needed for that many time zones, but shouldn't need that many due to the map, probably more like 18-20.