Michael Cook’s Place

Despite spending more time with Little Cute Display, I’m still unable to get character generation working. Based on the small amount of information I have it should be working. I suspect that either the device just doesn’t support it (possible, I haven’t tested it) or I don’t have enough documentation (my best guess).
As part of [...]

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I spent a little time today trying to get custom character generation working, but haven’t had much success. See the Little Cute Display page for more.

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I was busy this weekend. I downloaded and beat Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One. I’ll write the review a little later.
The other thing I’ve been doing is writing a little driver program in Java to control the PicoLCD that I bought. You can read about it and download the [...]

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I’m trying to write a Widget for OS X, but I’m running into a terrible brick wall.
My widget, so far, does nothing. It’s just static HTML. I know that’s right. It works fine in Safari. I’ve got all my various files (like Info.plist). Yet I can’t launch my widget.
When launched, it just shows the loading [...]

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I’ve updated Gravitoids, adding a few little cleanups and making it generally run better. There are still some clear problems with it, such as the fear display lines seem off, and they learn to ignore the walls completely… which means my balancing is off. Still strangely distracting and fun to watch.

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