Pies in their Eyes

You know how the saying goes, pies in their eyes, nestled in a nest of spies, no you don’t know it. That’s all right because I just made it up, If you can remember from a couple days ago (I’d be surprised if you can, attention spans are nothing like they used to be, personaly I barley remember what I did yesterday, let alone some random blog on the internet) the snowflakes were stuck on the bolder of latency. So did we over come this problem, I can say with a resounding, sort of. You see our PI core could not handle the amount of data the camera was feeding it and as the PI we were using was out of date, it seemed like about time to upgrade to the PI four. (Ha I knew that I could wrap pies into this some how (what are you talking about, of course you did jack, you are writing the confounding thing, and you knew that we upgraded the PI, so stop being an) oh just shut up me and get on with the blog).

Upgrading to the PI four naturally with a couple extra problems, you might immediately jump to the conclusion that this was writing out new endless lines of code, but this only took a couple of back to back sleepless nights. Now the real problem came with not having unlimited power, even though we had already upgraded our power supply it was, on it’s own not enough. But that had a simple fix, spend, more, money, yay. Buying the new power pack was easy, I didn’t even have to do it, the other snowflake had to (yes less work for me).

With a more powerful battery pack there was still one lingering piece that did not quite wan’t to fit into place. Jeff could now Wizz all around the room, driven through the view of the camera, however a small shimmer occurs once you get to the furthermost reaches of the class room; despite the higher p.d. and the more powerful system, we were still getting some latency. I just hope that the course is not to big.

Now I know three days ago I said that this would be the last blogpost until the competition, but I might just slip one more in tomorrow before the Friday the 13th midnight curfew. So if this is the last you hear from the snowflakes, remember to stay snowflakey.