Station Building in KSP

I’ve been doing various things in KSP since I last posted about it.  Re-did the Mun landing in the manner of Apollo 11, even including doing the midflight module reorganization so that the lander was on top.  The project I’ve been currently working on has been to assemble a space platform for holding fuel and other supplies for more remote missions to stock up on once entering orbit.

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VCP-510 (now VCP5-DCV) passed!

Been spending the past week cramming as much information into my head as possible in order to get my VCP5 certification.  I already hold a VCP in VI3 (pretty outdated now), and I did the vSphere 4: What’s New course, which would have qualified me for the VCP4, but I never sat the exam!

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Kerbal Space Program!

I recently picked up Kerbal Space Program from Steam, at lots off.  Awesome game, if you’re into that sort of thing.  I first used the stock Kerbal X rocket, and tried to get it into orbit.  After a few misfires (whoops), I managed to get it into orbit and deorbit it into the sea with the crew alive.  Yay!

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ATtiny167 Bug with AVR Extended Commands?

I was advised that there’s a bug in my AVRDUDE code for the ATtiny167.  I don’t have a 167 to test it for myself as yet, so I’ll have to get hold of one, which may take a while.  In the meantime, if you’re using a 167 and you get strange errors, attached this to the end of your AVRDUDE command line;

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