Pick and place remote controlled robot

Hello ARM COREs!

This is my first venture on ARM cores. After trying a bit, I succeded programming the CORE on an LM3s811 evaluation kit.
This wasn't that hard compared to programming the Atmega core(see this to know how I struggled/struggling to program the MCU).
The text you see is on a 96x16 OLED screen. The chip you see on the left is the LM3s811 MCU. And its fun to program the core on Keil!

PS: eval kit courtesy Devadutta

Ubuntu 8.10 reviewed

The new Desktop effect on Compiz and a KDE 4.1 Desktop sporting new look.

This weekend (1st Nov) I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, which took a staggering 10 hours to update my box which hosts both KDE and Gnome. So I thought to review Ubuntu as a simple end user. Here it is

Firstly the things I liked:

• Amazingly fast boot/shutdown time
  
• KDE 4.1
• Good looking art work for both KDE/Gnome
  
• Slightly new Compiz effects

Then comes the things which make Ubuntu 'Rocking' always:

• Superb driver support
• Easy up-gradation/installation feature
• Quick fresh install feature
• Vast repositories
• Amazing media rendering/acceleration with Amarok

In the end some things which makes any Ubuntu user 'Irksome'/'Pissed off'!

• Kaffeine is gone for now.I dont know why KDE ditched Kaffeine and replaced it with some 'Dragon player'.
• Hell long updating time! It took around 10 hours for me to update. I've seen even Vista taking such humongous time to update but I like Ubuntu and I want to it to make me feel 'GOOD' ;)
• Initial glitches with sound I face every time I upgrade to new release.
• Dirty looking GTK apps on KDE.
• A difficult to remember keyboard layout for Kannada( in general Unicode).

Psycho-Reviewed:Watch it at Thy risk!

The must awaited Psycho which had raised to fame through Raghu Dixit's music,is finally out. The story revolves around a Psychopath,schizophrenic person who loves a lady in his Rehab period.

Warning: Spoilers about to help you!

The story starts with the hero running like Tom Hanks in 'Forest Gump' all around with background music something similar to Ramstein's , while he tries to net his lady love. When she's about to fall for him she gets to know he's a Psychopath,schizophrenic person, which makes her crazy. When Psycho gets to know this, all his rehab goes in the gutter and dies. Seeing this the lady love also becomes a Psycho!(sheesh!)

The casting did not deserve all the hype generated by the team to keep it a secret till the end. Film has lots of loose ends, narration is worse.
And also watch out for the nerve wracking yelling of "paaavaanaa" all through .
The only credit to the team is for the camera work and Raghu's amazing Music.
In the end it isnt worth a try in the theaters. I suggest any one who wants to watch this movie to just buy a copy of the audio and settle for it.

My rating for the movie is a Two on Five- 2/5