<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Neat. That would be great if you'd like to bring it :-)</div><div><br></div><div>As far as testing goes, usually I just trust the device if it can give me appropriate responses back over serial. I never considered that it might lie to me, and you've covered another angle there :-) However, what do you do if the MacBook and Arduino are in cahoots?</div><div><br></div><div>-jsnyder</div><br><div><div>On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jason Huggins wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Josh Cronemeyer<br><<a href="mailto:jcroneme@thoughtworks.com">jcroneme@thoughtworks.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hooray for the Arduino + python talk. I've got an arduino that I should<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">probably do something cool with. Maybe I can get some ideas.<br></blockquote><br>My "20%" project at Google was to create an Ambient Orb clone using<br>Python and Arduino. I open-sourced it right before I left... but I<br>never told anyone about it.<br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/orbison/">http://code.google.com/p/orbison/</a><br><br>Making your own orb for continuous build monitoring is pretty fun and<br>pretty cheap (about $50)... Maybe I could do a demo of mine?<br><br>I'm really proud of how I tested it, too... I used the MacBook's<br>built-in camera for "system testing" the orb. For example, when I told<br>the orb to set to "blue".. I would then take a snapshot and analyze<br>the RGB color values of the snapshot to see if the orb was telling the<br>truth. (Which leads to *totally* hilarious "how many MacBooks do you<br>need to change a lightbulb" jokes.)<br><br>cheers,<br> hugs<br>_______________________________________________<br>Chicago mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chicago@python.org">Chicago@python.org</a><br>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>--</div><div>James Snyder</div><div>Biomedical Engineering</div><div>Northwestern University</div><div><a href="mailto:jbsnyder@fanplastic.org">jbsnyder@fanplastic.org</a></div><div><a href="http://fanplastic.org/key.txt">http://fanplastic.org/key.txt</a></div><div>ph: (847) 644-2322</div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>