Frabjous Dei

Check out my snake!

Ahem.

So, as you can see, the hardware is fairly much done. All I need is an enclosure/belt pack for the battery and Arduino and to hook everything into the jacket, which my wonderfully generous and talented friend Lizzie is helping me out with.

The software bit is kicking arse too. This “snake” pattern only took me a couple of hours soup-to-nuts and I spent much more time actually writing useful code rather than struggling with my ignorance of C++, which was a nice change. Don’t tell anyone who one day plans to employ me about the fall-through in the switch statement that stops the snake running off the top and bottom of the display. C++ is a great language and I’m getting to be able to write really clean, idiomatic code!