Izmet Fekali

Lego Mindstorms NXT, oodles of fun:

This is not my first robot, but it's a first attempt at a line follower. On the third pic below you can see the light sensor. I have to draw a line now and write some software:

The circles in the background were drawn by my first robot, not much different from this one, improvement is in the details. It's foremost feature is it's breakdownability (essential when adding features or replacing batteries).

PC Magazine just published a nice review of Lego Mindstorms NXT (via nxtasy.org).

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When I entered the torunament arena, it hit me hard: This is hopeless. And I was looking at only the fourth of it (this was the fourth and the last day of round one)!:

So I sat down, stole some pots, made a mistake with a set of threes (shoulda reel the guy in, not jam his reraise on flop, making him squirm a lot but lay down his ATo on T83 flop, argh!), built up a bit, lost most of everything flopping top pair with KQs, nursed my short stack for an hour…

Sinking into depression frustration is mounting. Not because of the short stack! Come on, stercus accidit, bothers me none. It is the fact that I'm sitting at the table of unknowns, that's what is depressing! Busting out, I have no story to tell.

So I nurse, survive the break, nurse some more, and then… Somebody busts out a player (the same one I should have, dumb fuck that I am), seat opens and in comes a TV face: Mr. Kassem 'Freddy' Deeb. So he steals with A9o, I defend with KTs, I have my story, see you at the next WSOP.

-Iz

P.S. I headed home ASAP because of ear problems, like I had cotton deep down there. Stuffed. Plugged. I had them rinsed in a Vegas medical center (cost me $250, did some paperwork waiving responsibility, a girl poured warm water into my ears and I held a cup), no improvement, turns out I have infection back home (my doc checked me out, handed over some penicilin or sumthing, pain went away next day, cost me $0). The short trip overseas was not in vain, however, I found the freshly released NXT Mindstorms pack at the Apple store. Sweet:

I named it AngeBot and tested it out pronto with a shoort circle drawing loop. The Kid loves it.

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I love this USB Phone, AFAIK it is the only Skype phone with a driver for Apple Mac OS X:

The design is not half that bad, the phone has solid feel in my hand, buttons are top-notch. It works flawlessly with Skype, all the functions (walking the menus) are accessible from the handset, sound quality is good. I like it a lot.

-Izmet

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