Monthly Archives: April 2015

Emphasis

So, how do you say the phrase:

“penguin!”

You can’t shout it, because that would be “PENGUIN”. You somehow have to give emphasis without being too loud all the way through.

Kind of like stacatto?

No, that’s more of an emphasized ‘P’enguin.

S says it feels more like the emphasis is on “pENGuin”.

“So, what was the issue?”

So, we were debugging a common ground issue today at a in the amazing Helios Makerspace in Montreal.

We got as far as we could ourselves (debugging one common ground problem, and tracking the data signal through one board and on to the second), then we got stuck. We tried a bunch of things, but it was only when the came in, and determine it was two problems: A second common ground problem, combined with the first (Arduino) board having too many outputs and so not outputting a high enough voltage.

The really interesting part (aside from learning again how important common grounds are) was watching the engineers in the room (the people who were building things, perhaps or perhaps not engineers) all run over as soon as the problem was solved and someone asked the question “So, what was the issue?”

Anytime someone is agonizing over a problem for hours, there is bound to be some learning for those around…Thinking about this from a min/maxing perspective, someone spends hours solving the problem, then you spend 2mins learning about the solution, and then you add it to your list of things to try/check when debugging, taking maybe 30s to possibly reduce your own debugging time by hours.

Moisture Levels

Some different moisture levels, ranked in order.

Dry:

Dessicated
Bone Dry
Super Dry
Dry
Wit
Not Dry
Dampish

Slightly Moist:

Damp
Slightly Moist
Firedamp
Moistened

Moist:

Moist
Slightly Wet
Wettish
Humid
Steamy
Slick
Muggy
Glistening
Clammy
Dank
Oozy
Dewy

Wet:

Drizzly
Wet
Drippy

Very Wet:

Dripping
Irriguous

Apres Moi:

Rainy
Sodden
Water-logged
Deluge