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Yay thank you all guys!! I was so worried people weren't going to like it and after working so so long on it it bugged me to no end!
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Don't touch that, it's mine!
akita-ken replied to Arcus (Silver Lining) Wind's topic in General Discussion
I don't let people touch my soldering iron when it is off and lying around on my desk. When it is on, they can touch it for all I care -
My story is probably one of the boring ones since it was the standard one of watching one episode, then another, and another, and <...>. The only difference mine has I guess is that it was a friend of mine who went "you're not one of those weirdass bronies are you" back then when I had no idea whatsoever what FiM was, that piqued my interest in the show a few months later when I was bored on a weekend and looking for something to watch on YouTube. -
figured since you showed me your project, i'd show you mine! so here's what i have so far that has been on the shelf for months now
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Yeah it's the clock! Those sockets are for the 6 seven-segment displays that will plug in and then cover up the IC in the middle so it can't be seen
I've wired up the MAX7219 in the middle to the sockets already, but have yet to hook up the ATTiny84 on the top left to the DS1307+ clock IC on the top right hee 
how! is it that UV light acid etching sticker thingmajig kit? I heard of those before but have never dared to order one to try. =/ -
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Well it's been almost a few months since I've posted anything in Fan Art now! So much has been happening though. Between preparing all the paperwork required before completing my term of service with the army and doing things like settling my plans for university, I've had little time to properly sit down to do any drawing apart from the odd hour here and there that I managed to squeeze in. It's been close to two months since I've started this comic and I have nearly given up on it more than once due to the tediousness of it all, but the time has come, I've finally completed it! I doubt I'll be trying to pull off another one any time soon though, art does not come as a natural talent for me and so it actually takes me pretty long to generate stuff with all the erasing and redrawing involved. A single panel from this one easily took me a few days of constant work each time. Granted, it was probably because I adopted a new technique and stopped using the lazyman method of just getting the line art done in Illustrator and then exporting it to Photoshop to paintbucket in the fills, but I found that this creates a much smoother fill, even if I have to manually trace in every single colour one by one. Therefore yes, the entire strip is vector and was done fully in Illustrator with no other program involved. While I'm disappointed at how I've never really been able to replicate the show's style fully, I've more or less come to accept that this is as show-accurate as I'll ever get unless I meditate enough and attain some enlightenment in the form of a newfound drawing technique. Anyway, I've bored all of you enough with my self-deprecating rant. This one is dedicated first and foremost to @thegoodhen, who has always had the time to share his interesting projects with me and was the one who gave me the inspiration to do this in the first place, as well as to all the other Arduino bronies out there! I hope my sense of humour isn't too corny
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the opening theme of LPS is actually pretty catchy, too bad it's so short..
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i don't know if my wrist is sprained or fractured but it hurts when i turn it at certain angles
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i really loved luna, but why did she sound so weird this episode? =S
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(Um... here is the link: http://www.themaximitecomputer.com/maximite-compatible-the-worlds-first-arduino-computer/ ) I will programme my own computer one day. It will have an SD card and transistor output as well as relay output and will connect to a regular cellphone. Basically, it will use the cellphone as a screen... that'll be SO AWSUM!
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i've been wearing glasses since i was 9 i started off with perfect eyesight but got progressively more and more near-sighted until a few years back where i've more or less stabilized at 475 degrees on the left eye and 275 degrees on the right. my glasses are on me 24/7 (well, except when i'm sleeping of course) and i've more or less grown to accept it as part of me.. i actually feel awkward without them now heh
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and it's over! i have completed my tour of duty in the army and have been released from service! :3 yay happy day
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Rarity's hoof had this pink/red tinge after she poked herself with the needle. -
new episode in 15 minutes!!
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ahahaha nice one 'Feld0 getting banned'. The day a sysadmin gets banned from his own site will be the day pigs will fly The server MLPF is being hosted on probably belongs to him or is being rented under his name, so nope, not going to happen
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the speed at which the brony community generates fan-content is seriously frightening
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the episode came out less than 48 hours ago! http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=1QfsI77p60Q&feature=endscreen
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fudging all the small background details again as usual.. but at least i'm making progress, just 1.5 more panels to go!
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It works! :3 For some reason the third motor doesn't get it's current tho, but I will solve that later. I can now set motor speeds individually as well as setting "master speed". It is kinda weird, if one motor has its speed set to 512 and the other one to 1024, the second makes two steps and then the first makes one, but whatever. xD
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It could actually serve as one. I mean, it has relay, real time clock, display, now even a piezo speaker...
