Hackable Microcontroller-Powered Valentine's Card 133
compumike writes "If you have a significant other to impress this Valentine's Day, consider putting your programming skills to use. This video tutorial shows how to build an LED Heart Valentine's card, powered by a microcontroller running C code, with a neat randomized 'twinkling' effect in an interrupt handler. Think about it: how many ladies can say that their Valentine's card runs at 14 MHz?"
Re:More Likely Responses (Score:5, Informative)
Considering my wife came across an electronics project I made, didn't care what it was or how much work it cost and threw it away.. I'm probably not going to spend hours and hours making a valentines day card twinkle...
Re:More Likely Responses (Score:2, Informative)
Her:
Re:Make her a dinner reservation instead (Score:5, Informative)
No offense, but what "real" females - shallow or not - say and what they mean differ drastically. I don't think this involves lying so much as simple self-delusion (since they seem to actually believe what they say), but it all ends up the same.
Simple example - Would you rather get a blinking card that represents a week's work from your SO, or a mere half-day's pay worth of roses delivered conspicuously to your workplace?
And before you answer, I've tried both (well, not a blinking card, but same idea). The "lovingly crafted with my own hands and dozens of hours of hard work" gift gets a "gee, thanks, how... nice". The large bundle of dying plant debris result in a tigress throwing you to the floor and a few hours of scratch-mark-leaving entertainment.
Women want stuff and attention, and as much of it as possible. They don't care about the effort or intent involved, just the end product.
Re:More Likely Responses (Score:2, Informative)
Her: Yeah, like I want them to know that you suck at coding and need 14 million cycles per second just to blink a few lights.