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.

MPLAB SIM MASTERs Classes

Over the past few days, I've attended three MASTERs Simulator-class dry runs. I have to say that the presentations are very well done. The fundamentals class is a good class for people who have never used MPLAB SIM. The debugging techniques and advanced stimulus classes take the material a bit further with stimulus injection, register trace, the logic analyzer, and even the 'Data Monitor and Control Interface' tool. The classes are definitely worth attending if you are looking to take better advantage of the mechanisms that the software simulator provides.

[Off Topic] Battle at Kruger: Lions, Water Buffalos, & Crocs, Oh My!

A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

Video Introduction to Docking Windows in MPLAB IDE 7.61

I made short video to introduce users to the new docking-window system in Microchip's MPLAB IDE 7.61. Before playing with docking windows, be sure to create a Window Set with windows undocked so that you can quickly get back to the undocked state.


Video: Intro to Docking Windows in MPLAB IDE 7.61