Nerdvana

"You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly."

Ken Robinson

The delight we take in blinking LEDs is perhaps a little eccentric, but each cyclic advance takes us inevitably one step closer to Nerdvana, and isn't that where we'd all like to be?

Recently we've discovered our long lost love for programming chips directly in assembler - for size decreases and speed increases; win/win. As computers got faster moving into the nineties, with more memory and hard disk space, we abandoned assembler around 1997 for C, Java and eventually Python. But now we get to once again program genius little devices using rediscovered skills - nice!

Assembler programming was once (not unkindly) referred to being somewhat similar to sitting in a dark room banging six inch nails into your head! Part of the problem was lack of documentation, no simulation and the possibility of permanent damage to your computer - what's not to like?

Things are much easier now...well, take a look!

And if you're having trouble sleeping, watch it again! Kym thinks the best way to avoid AVR assembler programming is to cover yourself in cats.

Two cats should do it