Solderless Drawdio

The [Drawdio](http://web.media.mit.edu/~silver/drawdio/) (created by [Jay Silver](http://1derful.org/)) combines drawing with audio. You can get [kits](http://www.ladyada.net/make/drawdio/) to [build one](http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKAD12), or you can [solder one up on stripboard](http://2ne1.com/drawdio/). But I wanted to make one without faffing with a soldering iron – using screw terminal block.

That counts out the use of integrated circuits like the 555 variants used in the traditional Drawdio…

Bah Ubuntu Lucid upgrade

Just upgraded my desktop from 9.04 to 10.04LTS. I’d skipped 9.10 because of the [Intel graphics shenangigans](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582) – there’s 133 pages to that thread – gives some idea of the level of aggro that seemed to be involved!

And today’s upgrade died horribly part way through with dependencies it couldn’t sort out…

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