Laser guns and OS X
I spent the day soldering, desoldering and destroying components, and managed to drain 9 batteries (3 AA, 6 AAA) due to short circuiting (they still give reasonable voltage, they just don’t deliver any current). Of course, I’m talking about my school project. The circuit board for the gun can be seen here, and I have an experimental setup of two of six targets right beside me. I’m kinda amazed how fast the batteries drain when I accidentally (melting isolations isn’t a good idea…) short circuit them. I have measured the current (0.01 A), so I know it should be no problem… I wonder why I didn’t use rechargeable batteries when testing…
Anyway, last night I did something entirely different. I spent the day trying to get Mac OS X Panther running in PearPC 0.3.1. When I got it running, I fell in love with the look of it, but was disgusted by the performance of PearPC. I had seen some stuff about making KDE look more Mac-ish, and decided to give it a try. About 5 hours later, after a long discussion with the baghira KDE theme about it not wanting to obey my settings (it’s CVS, so I accept it), I was finally happy wih the outcome. My shiny “KDE OS X” can be seen here, here and here.
//Firetech