Do you remember back in September when I said I had been approached to put together an electronic, gaming related prop?  And remember back in October when I said there was a new project that was similar, and that there was another new project that was similar but not quite the same, and there was a fourth project that I also couldn’t talk about, but it wasn’t new and a couple people knew about it?  Remember all that?

I want to update you about those projects.  But it’s a little hard to do it so ambigiously. So I’m going to give them code names.

The first project I mentioned, the one from September, is an electronic, gaming related prop.  It has been designated Obnoxious Howler Monkey.

The second project I mentioned, the electronic gaming prop that was somewhat similar, that project was in fact the Arduino-Based Laser Tag Game that was designed to be used as a prop in a Paranoia game. This project needs no further codename.

The third project I mentioned, which was not a prop but was useful and game related, was in fact the 3d10 Game Scripts You Can Write In PHP series that I wrote.  This project also needs no further codename.

The fourth project I mentioned was not a new project, and had come up a few months earlier (in point of fact, almost a year ago).  This project is ongoing, is game related, and a couple of you know about it but cannot talk about it.  This project is codenamed Simulated Jocular Anaconda.

Since that post, there arose a fifth project, not previously mentioned, that intersects Simulated Jocular Anaconda. This project is also game related, and is codenamed Insignificant Diversionary Anaconda.

These codenames will help to avoid future confusion.  Trust me.

Now, STATUS UPDATE:

Obnoxious Howler Monkey – This project has not yet left the cocktail-napkin stage. Parts have been acquired, and the theory explored, but no prototyping, assembly or proof-of-concept work has been undertaken.

Simulated Jocular Anaconda -Initial work that was done for this project was promising, but has had to be scrapped.  The project proceeds forward, but was placed on the back-burner for some time to allow work for other project.  Namely:

Insignificant Diversionary Anaconda -This project is currently under test, and is 90% functionally complete.  I genuinely hope to provide earth-shattering news for this project by the end of the summer.

I have a large number of other projects in various stages, but I will leave them off for now.  Soon I hope to create a master list of project codenames, which I can update as projects get touched.