REAL ICE Firmware Engineer in a 12-Way Sit-fly Campfire

Microchip's REAL ICE firmware engineer is an avid skydiver. Recently, he participated in a record-matching sit-fly. Be sure to check out the video at his site.

Don't worry, we always make sure that he commits his code to source control before you goes on one of his many adventures.

Human Brain Cloud shows how we think

Kyle Gabler, founder of the Experimental Gameplay Project and indie game studio 2D Boy, recently posted a few stats from his side project, Human Brain Cloud. The online "game" shows you a word or phrase and all you have to do is type in the first thing that comes to mind. The answers players give are amassed into a huge network of connected blobs viewable from the website. Nearly 800,000 associations have been submitted so far, connecting over 100,000 unique words and phrases.

[via Joystiq]

[Off Topic] Japanese Human Tetris Gameshow

This made me laugh.

Fold ASM code in MPLAB IDE 7.61

Did you know that you can 'fold' ASM code in the editor packaged with MPLAB IDE 7.61? Right click on an ASM file and select Properties to get the editor properties page for ASM file types. Enable the code-folding option.

Once the option is enabled, you can use ;{ and ;} to mark your ASM blocks as shown in the screenshot below.

You can then use the little icon in the upper left corner of the block to collapse the block.