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now I can use the EEPROM in my slaves
Friday, October 24 2025
location: 940 feet west of Woodworth Lake, Fulton County, NY
I got a fire going, made a french press of coffee, made some toast, and took my usual Friday morning pseudoephedrine dose and then had a relatively dreary day in the remote workplace as I tried my best to massage various tickets into enough material to fill out my timesheet for yesterday and today. I took Charlotte for her usual walk to the lake and back during my lunch hour and then took her for a more substantial walk after work, this time over to across the lake to our boundary with Joel's parcel, which is now a mess of limbs in the aftermath of having been logged (for tax reasons!) last winter. It's a depressing sight, so I've mostly been avoiding it in the way I also avoid looking at roadkill. But today I wanted to have a better sense of what landforms exist in the part of our parcel north of the outflow bay. There wasn't much over there of note, although there is at least one large white pine, a species that our parcel has very few of for some reason. (There are a fair number north of the main body of the lake on Joel and Pyotr's parcels.) I continued along Joel's boundary, though about 100 feet inside our parcel, taking note of tiny creeks along the way. I then crossed East Bifurcation Creek and headed back towards the cabin trying to follow a route that differed as much as possible from other routes I have followed. There is a lot of detail, particularly in the form of isolated egg-shaped boulders and exposed cliffs of bedrock on the parcel, and I've noticed things I've missed that I know I've passed within a couple dozen feet of in the past.
This evening I had ChatGPT add a set of instructions to my Arduino I2C slave software allowing it to write to and read from its on-board EEPROM (which, on an Atmega328, is a kilobyte in size). The plan is to eventually store configuration information in that, allowing me to easily change configuration details on the fly. The advantage of EEPROM is that it is much more wear-resistant than flash, and if it does wear out I need only replace the slave, not the ESP8266 doing most of the work. It's a greate new feature to add to devices that had initially started out as being nothing but port expanders. But I continued to have problems getting my small Atmega328-based Arduino boards (they seem to be Nanos) to stay up for more than a few minutes at a time. ChatGPT provided some helpful advice, suggesting that perhaps the problem was the old bootloader these boards contain, which had forced me to say the boards were Arduino Mini Pros in order to upload sketches to them.
The lake today. Click to enlarge.
A view towards the main body of Woodworth Lake from the south shore of its outflow bay. Click to enlarge.
Another porcupine den. Click to enlarge.
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