Tony is a Geek

 UPDATE: okay, as previously mentioned I spent a little bit of time ( on a Saturday evening ) looking to use a Raspberry Pi PICO W and a Robo Pico board, along with a very old Dr.Who K9 robot toy to create a functioning "modern day" object avoidance detection robot.  No rocket science going on here, execpt me being me, I wanted to use JavaScript and NOT Python to control everything. Why JavaScript? Well, when coding for Arduino you are using C.  The cleanest and most sensible coding language to use ( ignore all that modern day OOP rubbish that people attempted to shove on/around it - that just ruined it, sometimes Software Architect are NOT right & if you accept that, you then chose what is best for the job, rather than forcing everything to fit what you know, bit of a life lesson there, me's thinks ) for the task at hand whilst running on constrained embedded devices.  Well, I'm not using an Arduino atm, however, I might, so to make the "switch" easier...

Back in mid-December 2023, I made a statement , more for myself than anything in an attempt to "force myself" to put aside some time for "me" and do something I want/need to do. Did I do it? Did I b*ll*x.  Why not?  well, you guessed it. Yep, those underpaying, whip cracking, slave masters that I am forced to serve insisted that I dedicate my time to earn them more mulla. sigh.  So, I wrote the beginnings of an application that will become a COrE system that was just enough for me to hand-over to 3-4 other people to continue with.  I think they'll take it further with minimal guidance from myself and that will "free me up" to at least get some "me" time. Saying that, it took until 6pm on a Saturday in mid-January for me to get around to starting what I wanted to do - and boy was it really small BABY steps, but at least I'm forcing the issue on myself.  Why did it take so long? well, I got a tiny bit distracted by the dimensional blurs goi...

 Sometimes life / universe throws lemons at you.  So what do you do? Stand up straight and accept a lemon or two to the head / leg / knee-cap and move on with life, or, curl up into a ball get lemon juice squashed all over you? No, I have no idea what or why I'm talking about lemons either. What I wanted to post was that I had a mechanical failure occur in my (very expensive) custom car.  It did not "look" like a lot of damage, but as with most things in life, looks can be deceiving....  The infamous quote of, "it could have been worse" is not helpful and for an analytical brain that goes off pondering all of the potential outcomes of actions, this is really not helpful at all. Here's a photo of the aforementioned car on a recovery truck (that I REALLY want to purchase!), as you can see it is awesome on so many levels, not only can you load one vehicle onto it, you can load another one underneath...... OR, you can hoist one vehicle up in the air and do inspe...

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"we are diamonds taking shape" "woohoo"