Monday, November 22, 2010

Airport thoughts

I'm sitting in an airport (again, still always) and am researching two things:
  1. Drinking water test kits
    Conclusion: If you want to test more than one thing, it gets damn expensive. There must be a better way. It may be time to buy some agar and petri dishes, because it really is just that simple.
  2. Arduino projects for non-newbs
    Conclusion: there are a lot of newbs. Also, I need to figure out what I actually want to do with this thing. Ideas: door-opener sensor. Robot (of course) that moves around in my apartment and puts my roommate's pets back where they belong. Alternately, squirts them with water. ...that might be a little complicated for a first project.
Not having much luck yet with either, but it's early times yet.

Soon I'll work on the code test that I'm writing in C#, which I don't know.

Midway airport (MDW, Chicago) Southwest terminal has no pornoscanners and no patdowns. They also didn't see fit to ask me about the two large containers of JB-weld in my carryon.