A short post about the week’s progress
This week I did a lot that doesn’t look like much. I soldered, made, and placed 15 LED flowers and a few non-LED flowers. And then I got to work on the code. But blerf. My code is not going well. I had a little melt down last night when I couldn’t get anything to work.
Bad Strategy
After asking how things were going and noticing the frustration, my Hunky Assistant inquired about my strategy. Apparently it was not optimal. My plan basically entailed trying to write everything at once from top to bottom—just like how authors write books and composers create renowned symphonies, right?
So Very Wrong
Hell no that is not how anything gets written, including code. At least that’s what I’m telling myself. So I scrapped that first tangle of functions and started from square one with the simplest of simple things: getting lights to light up. And now I’m just expanding it one facet at a time.
The End Goal
The behavior that I’m hoping to end up with is a hoodie that lights up red and orange on hot, sunny days and turns bluer and blinkier the higher the chance of rain. My new (and improved!) plan is to write the sunny/warm state first, then write the rainy state, and then figure out how it pulls this info off the Internet.
Wish me luck!
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