Rinse-lather-repeat

It's been a busy couple of weeks at school/work/home for me, thus the lack of posting. Every day brings a new challenge, an old one, a frustrating one, and one that shouldn't be there but just is to add to the overall aggravation of things. The primary centerpiece for these challenges is my digital project, for all intents and purposes my "senior" project - an automated pet feeder. For geeky types, I'm having to build it using an 8051 microcontroller and must incorporate a 16-key keypad, two line LCD, analog to digital converter, external RAM, stepper motor plus controller, and whole bunch of buttons, switches, LEDs, and all sorts of other crap to give it that whiz-bang factor Satan my professor wants.

At this point, after one cup of coffee, I'm not sure how I'm going to do that. I'm not sure I'll know after a whole pot of the tar, either. Number of circuit rebuilds at this point: 4.