My "Resume"
I once decided to drop off my resume in person. So I made this:
Coding an Arduino in C++ with limited resources is a fun puzzle. I had to upgrade to the Arduino Mega to fit the entirety of the resume text and it gave me enough space to include an easter egg.
Over the years I have learned the value of a prototype. Will this work or did I just waste a bunch of money?
Yay, it works! Let's spend a bunch more money!
Anyone who says you need to buy a laser cutter doesn't have a friend with a laser cutter. Except you AJ, you need that laser cutter.
Componentization is one of the best concepts industry has ever come up with. To celebrate that fact I made directional plugs for EVERYTHING and a wiring harness.
My resume has a frickin' wiring harness!
My resume has a frickin' wiring harness!
Even the contrast potentiometer plugs into a repurposed 6 pin ribbon cable connector. I love standardized pin distances.
Look what I did to that poor ribbon cable. Beautiful.
The racing game:
It really was an after thought, so I had to come up with a game you could play with two buttons on a 40 x 4 character screen. Keep in mind the Arduino doesn't have access to the individual pixels BUT I do get 8 (count 'em 8!) custom characters! Else it would have been the letters "YOUR CAR" dodging a bunch of oncoming "NOT YOUR CAR" and clearly there are width problems with that. Oh, but I'm using one of the custom characters in the resume because I didn't like the bullet point that came with the standard font set and because I'm just the right amount of overly exacting. So 7 (count 'em 7!) custom characters!
It really was an after thought, so I had to come up with a game you could play with two buttons on a 40 x 4 character screen. Keep in mind the Arduino doesn't have access to the individual pixels BUT I do get 8 (count 'em 8!) custom characters! Else it would have been the letters "YOUR CAR" dodging a bunch of oncoming "NOT YOUR CAR" and clearly there are width problems with that. Oh, but I'm using one of the custom characters in the resume because I didn't like the bullet point that came with the standard font set and because I'm just the right amount of overly exacting. So 7 (count 'em 7!) custom characters!
So I spent way too long coming up with how to draw a race car with only 5 pixels of width. Then I spent even longer coming up a second race car clearly distinguishable from the first, with only 5 pixels of width. Also the highway dashes run at a different speed than the cars (or else it'd be called Parking Lot Racer) so each car design has two characters, one with a dash below and one without. There's also the blank space with a dash. Oh, and the fiery wreck animation with only two frames! That's probably my favorite.
I'm considering making this my holiday card.
Cheers,
- Brian
- Brian
