I have to program in C.
Don't hear many people saying that these days. What are you working on?
Vim is a bitch to learn, but the more you work with it, the more you
force yourself to
start to love it.
I always liked Nano better, but vim is good to be somewhat familiar with because you'll eventually run into a system where it's your only option.
(or run into a situation where even that isn't an option........
)
You just reminded me too, I have a Raspberry Pi sitting in my desk. When I went home last December, my brother showed me his new ridiculous hobby of making these little bead "action figure" type things. Here are two that he gave me(a Mario mushroom and a character from a video game called Maniac Mansion):
He laboriously uses tweezers to place each bead on a rack by hand before ironing the whole thing together. I was like, oh hell no, this is the 21st century, what the hell are you doing, there must be a
machine
that can just do this for you. He scoffed at the idea of automating this horrible thing he does, so it's my new little side mission to build him something that can place these stupid beads for him.
My not-yet-well-thought-out plan is basically to get a couple of raspberry pis, hook some cameras to them, then hook them to some microcontrollers guiding a hopper or something similar. Basically start off getting the thing to accurately pick up a bead and place it at any given point on the rack, then work from there. But been so incredibly busy.