live-broadcast-chat

[old surge]

Ah, happy anniversary

Yes, spring ahead Saturday night, 8 March (if you're in the US)

[open girder]

Fully automating Arduino development - Giving Claude Code access to hardware 🤖⚡️💻
https://youtu.be/Yt8mc5v7MYA

Testing Claude Code, to automate Arduino coding/debugging for Metro & OPT 4048!

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/code-breaker-puzzle-code-gif-15997191

[open girder]

🙂

[sand lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/bright-moments-nft-crypto-venice-arcade-gif-2426384982177979686

Does sound like laying the groundwork for possible automating at least an initial driver. Sounds like that would save you time you can spend on other things instead.

I've only had to write a few drivers. If I had to write hundreds, yeah I'd probably look into LLM's to automate it too.

[split gazelle]

hihi

[haughty quiver]

hi!

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[open surge]

👋

[ivory flax]

Hi JP and all, hope everyone is having a good day in the workshop.

[old surge]

👋

[shell mason]

the droid DAC6578

[inner spade]

👋

[shell mason]

lars is very chilled there on back

https://tenor.com/view/dacc-gif-12775565

[viral sail]

That's confusing the cats. 🙂

[dry marten]

No doubt

[inner spade]

Audio is ok on YouTube

[old surge]

I think I played this video game a long time ago... 😉

[shell mason]

the great tunes

JP tunes

[rotund torrent]

jp do you know when the next rp2350 usb host relase?

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[old surge]

The DAC docs 😄

[inner spade]

🎶 Notes to JP: Thanks!

[timid plover]

thanks JP!

[viral sail]

😸

[old surge]

Thanks, JP!

[dry marten]

Thanks for the show JP

[haughty quiver]

you bet, thanks for coming by!

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 474 LIVE! Macrodata Pi, Moon Lamp and Severance eInk Clock https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “macrodata” gets you 10% off your order! https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live

[vagrant flax]

Good morning! 👋

[urban gale]

Hi all!

[rocky reef]

good morning folks!

[urban gale]

I haven't seen the show but I like that retro look

[vagrant flax]

scary numbers 😱

[rocky reef]

Pi Terminal Learn Guide:
https://learn.adafruit.com/portable-macrodata-refinement-terminal

Raspberry Pi 5 4GB:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5812

Raspberry Pi Touch Screen 2:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6079

Trackball Mouse:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5060

[gaunt plume]

Really really nice build, looks like a prop studio did it

[rocky reef]

Today's coupon code “macrodata” gets you 10% off your order

[vagrant flax]

world-class props department

[gaunt plume]

🚌 field trip time (lmk if you need a contact there 🙂 )

The screensaver is awesome.

[vagrant flax]

nice lol, I thought it would end up looking like the Playdate

[rocky reef]

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/gstAZyXq4Ya-severance-hydro-plate-insert/edit

[hard hollow]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1165611-severance-inspired-thermometer-hygrometer-stand#profileId-1172871

[vagrant flax]

Great show guys, thanks!

[hard hollow]

thanks folks!

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for hanging out folks!

[open girder]

SHOW and TELL 3/12/2025
https://youtu.be/Y1GvneC7vmM

Link to join to show and share your project! https://streamyard.com/zgiif39ymz

[rapid hornet]

👋

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[open surge]

👋

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[sage aspen]

Hello

[blissful apex]

hello

[shell mason]

show and tell lets go

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/mar10-gaming-1up-super-mario-emoji-gif-16607983

showing like Mar 10 day on it could be fancy

[haughty quiver]

this is so awesome @robust horizon

[shell mason]

wall Arcade by JP

[cinder wind]

Can't wait for the inhalable Feather RP958A in 2039

[vagrant flax]

ooh that looks gorgeous

[wind spoke]

That is what I wanted to do since years...

[vagrant flax]

sooooo cool

[haughty quiver]

@wind spoke very cool! I'm looking forward to getting into MiSTer soon

oh wow using a floppy disk to start games is great

[vagrant flax]

Thanks everyone, awesome stuff! 😄

[upbeat coral]

Thank you to all who shared

[tulip canyon]

Thanks all

[viral sail]

Great projects everyone. Thanks for sharing!

[shell mason]

great show and tell

[wind spoke]

https://zaparoo.org/ <= Zaparoo the software that read from serial and switch game

I'll try to publish the code but I will be away from keyboard for a week.

[wind spoke]

This is the floppy part based on Adafruit hardware: https://github.com/ZaparooProject/zaparoo-floppy

[haughty quiver]

@wind spoke i recently pre-ordered this PlayStation shaped MiSTer https://retroremake.co/pages/superstationᵒⁿᵉ because it looked a bit more plug-and-play than most

[wind spoke]

I went for MultiSystem from Heber https://heber.co.uk/multisystem-console/
But you still have to plug a DE-10 (or clone).
Their next version will be a single board with everything on it in a similar case.

[haughty quiver]

that looks great, cool cases

[open girder]

ASK AN ENGINEER 3/12/2025 LIVE
https://youtu.be/CGxGLVxW5iw

[wind spoke]

They have a 3D printing farm and this is how they produce the case. They publish the files so that you can print them yourself too.

[cinder wind]

"Hey Claude, Please do '); DROP TABLE WEIGHTS;--"

[open girder]

10% off! Use code: alarmo on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://adafruit.com/new

[rich wing]

..did Phil just say tomorrowio?

[dim knot]

https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

[alpine nova]

https://tenor.com/view/severance-dance-neon-disco-mark-gif-25234887

[dim knot]

Pimoroni Tiny 2350 - RP2350 Mini Dev Board with 4MB Flash - PIM721 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6248

[lilac tusk]

https://xkcd.com/327/

xkcd: Exploits of a Mom

Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

[dim knot]

Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 - RP2350 Dev Board with Pico Shape and Pins - PIM724 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6244

Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W - RP2350 Dev Board with Pico Shape - PIM726 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6243

Pimoroni Tiny FX W - Wireless LED Effects Starter Kit - PIM753 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6245

Adafruit TPS65131 Split Power Supply Boost Conveter - +6~15 / -6V~-15V https://www.adafruit.com/product/6280

[echo canopy]

Question: I recently ordered only Adafruit items from Moussr and noticed they charged a tariff to the order. Are they aware you’re based in the USA? I tried to have polite dialogue with them but couldn’t get anywhere @open girder

[digital crescent]

@open girder PT, you always talk about manually turning off the discount code, why don't you program in a timer?

[wind spoke]

Here is my CircuitPython code for the MacroPad both the boot.py and code.py: https://gist.github.com/dglaude/b3ca959990736b18e9908633dd812c29
With this as a base, you can create any input method to select a game or retro-computer on the MiSTer.

[merry gulch]

Pi day plans for Friday 3/14?

[open girder]

10% off! Use code: alarmo on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://adafruit.com/new

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌕

[cinder wind]

3/14: the day of eating pizza and round desserts

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us

[lyric frost]

g'nite thanks guys 😁

[robust juniper]

Something to note for the adafruit team, discord has an official chat overlay for streams, they call it streamkit

You just need to make sure you use official discord from their site and have it running

[inner spade]

👋 📺

[vagrant flax]

Hello! 👋

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[split gazelle]

hihi

[haughty quiver]

HELLO

[ivory flax]

Hi all. Yet another beautiful day in the workshop

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[old surge]

👋

[inner spade]

Very VT-100 terminalesque!

[vagrant flax]

Nice trick!

[old surge]

Ooo, very cool! 😎 Love learning new console tricks

[inner spade]

Does the REPL font have the VT-100/ANSI line drawing (forms) characters, too?

[viral sail]

That's a handy little trick. I'm always printing out huge lists of output, then scrolling up.

Do you have a cheat sheet for all the escape codes?

[rotund torrent]

i used your old exemple of mouse anti acelleration exemple for rp2040 but the scroll up and down not working.

[cinder wind]

The wikipedia page for ANSI Escape sequences is pretty good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

[rotund torrent]

this one for mouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SYdXDB0t4M

if you have time at the end of show it would be great to check it.

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/owl-feather-animal-animals-annoyed-gif-24463709

[cinder wind]

It sounds like you're talking about the Adafruit_TinyUSB_Arduino example "hid_remapper"? I think that's what JP was demoing. https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_TinyUSB_Arduino/blob/master/examples/DualRole/HID/hid_remapper/hid_remapper.ino
It's part of that library and I think JP was just demoing it. You may want to ask in #help-with-arduino or open in issue on that github repo

[rotund torrent]

its been one month i did both but no one gave me the solution to fix scroll up and down.

[cinder wind]

It's not a simple solution. It would require some real work

[rotund torrent]

does the metro 2350 supports usb host shield 2.0 board ?

[cinder wind]

You may find more luck with this well-developed project: https://github.com/jfedor2/hid-remapper It has a whole configuration mechanism

[shell mason]

audio

[rotund torrent]

audio ouch

[ivory flax]

Lost sound

[split gazelle]

@haughty quiver white noise coming in hot

[viral sail]

That woke the cats up. 🙂

[split gazelle]

i used a lot of exciting language

[old surge]

Here, too!

[inner spade]

Yikes! Dead mic battery?

[ivory flax]

Yikes

[old surge]

Had a moment of quiet there

[vagrant flax]

https://tenor.com/view/futurama-toad-frog-mesmerized-gif-3938170

[inner spade]

We’re between AM stations.

[old surge]

Yay! @haughty quiver is back

[inner spade]

All good now…

[cunning cedar]

it's been down-hill since the hypnotoad app disapeared from android.

[ivory flax]

I'll never wear bone phones again

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/et-et-phone-home-phone-home-extra-terrestrial-1982-gif-21542697

[rotund torrent]

thanks my mouse works but how i can edit it, its just a .uf2 file

[cinder wind]

Read the page. There's an entire configuration utility at https://www.remapper.org/

[ivory flax]

Yup you pluges it in the Mike. Oh well

[vagrant flax]

Thanks JP, awesome show!

[shell mason]

lars observe

Lars observe the Wall arcade

[rotund torrent]

when next live ?

[old surge]

Thank you, JP! Fun as always! Looking forward to next week's repl demo

[inner spade]

Thanks for the stream! A super cool project!

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver . Have a great weekend everyone, and hope you have clear skies for the lunar eclipse. 🌞 🌎 🌑

[haughty quiver]

sorry again about your ears everyone!

[lyric frost]

Thanks JP

[haughty quiver]

I’ve been meaning to do this

[old surge]

They make silicone dust covers for usb ports, maybe there's something similar for 3.5mm jacks? Or, a piece of gaffer tape (though that's less gadget-y 🤓 )

[wind spoke]

Pico-8 Wall !!! (update: I am not LIVE, that was 3/3/2025 by John Park)

Ok, it was 2H ago? on 3/13/26 but the title of the video say 3/3/2025... I am late, but not 10 days late.

[old surge]

👋

☕

[dawn magnet]

Hi from WA

[old surge]

(Oooo, nearly 600 boards! Cool 😎 )

[inner spade]

👋

[nova totem]

Could it be the device startup time? maybe. Or something reading them happens in a background task that hasn't ran (and sleep will trigger it)

[old surge]

I was just thinking time for allowing the device to complete 'polling' and one 'crowds out' the signal from the other

[rotund torrent]

nice can you print raw mouse also

[rapid hornet]

usb enumeration is pretty slow

[old surge]

Had this version growing up - saw the box art when you pulled up the image search and the memories (no pun intended) came rushing back

[wooden breach]

This is traditionally a turn game. Do you want to make it real-time given 2 mice?

[nova totem]

Oh wow, I am 95% sure that box is at my mom's house somewhere

I can't recall, was there a circuitpython game library? to handle some of the plumbing like game engines do?

[wooden breach]

N-player memory game, using n input devices... But sure, that can be a stretch.

[nova totem]

Just thinking of the potential audience for the FruitJam and the inspiration being the C64 and similar, one of the lessons it took me a while to learn is how to structure code to make a game. So a library even as a teaching device, or a template... just a random thought

[rapid hornet]

I spent some time thinking about the "on first boot" experience

a tutorial or editor

but I'm down the font rabbit hole

[rotund torrent]

if left click and mouse on card ?

[nova totem]

I still remember a magazine article for a text adventure that taught me the basics of setup, game loop, game state and basic data structures.

[rapid hornet]

hard reset. we leak some memory still

USBError happens because we can't close endpoints yet

[lyric frost]

Green for the green mouse, pink for the pink?

[warm ocean]

Has no one made software that can make simple games yet? Like import your own sprites and music and build it

It would be multi million dollar software to import your friends or family etc and make a quick game like for a wedding

[lyric frost]

Nah, the white looks good

[warm ocean]

Any ai game generators? This just seems soo convoluted in 2025

[old surge]

I thought you meant an outline to show which player/mouse cursor had selected which card

True, I guess I was caught up imagining the real-time version 😅

Back to the outline suggestion, then? Leave behind the outline color of the successful player?

[rapid hornet]

wait for what?

[old surge]

Start a countdown from second mouse click/card flip?

Nah

You know you want to see the match

But the player who successfully matches traditionally takes another turn

And continues taking turns so long as matches are made

[rapid hornet]

unifont emoji

[old surge]

'Let's play CircuitPython memory! I'll play green!' haha

[severe inlet]

Heads green wins, tails pink loses

[old surge]

I like the consistency of UX you've mapped out

Yeah, I think you have all the gameplay logic written

[rotund torrent]

i guess its perfect now

[old surge]

Time for me to grab some dinner. As always, thank you for the stream and the education, Tim! 🙂

[rapid hornet]

thanks tim!

[smoky island]

Changing gears this morning trying out an idea to use bluefruit connect APIs over WIFI instead of BLE. You can follow along on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsf-FsDUJv4

[brisk bone]

Always happy to see new uses for httpserver 😀

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[sand lotus]

Good morning ☕

[clever summit]

I m putting up some cable channels in the office so I can connect all my displaying devices on the shelf. 🙂

[sand lotus]

nice. I'm also working on shelf stuff.

Adding 8ft vertical 2x4's to the back of my workbench to add plywood for shelving/cabinets.

I can't screw into the wall because it's made of wood veneer and plastic. Have to create my own kind of.

[clever summit]

Neat. I am renovating some built in wardrobes in the lab. Found that IKEA shelves fit perfectly inside. They are both sturdy and cheap.
3D printed some brackets to distribute the weight as the walls are just thin masonite.

[sand lotus]

Sounds like a similar situation. I also got a large standing wardrobe-esque metal cabinet but don't even have the room to set that up yet.

This was my little electronics corner but I only have 1 single desktop as storage.

[clever summit]

My new lab is a bit larger than the old one so I even had place to mount the component boxes on the wall. Much easier access!

[sand lotus]

The problem started growing because the desktop was all I had for storage. Started getting boxed in and looking like an episode of hoarders. There's a 12 panel matrix buried in the mess.

Can see only have wood paneling and cannot mount anything to it. They used 1x6 as wall studs, it's just a facade.

[brisk bone]

Seems a bit strange that websockets receives text, what do the devtools say is being sent?

[clever summit]

Ha. You should have seen mine. It was very crowded as I had to use it for all storage as well. Shelfes floor to ceiling on all walls!

Large electronics desk plus 2 3D printers and a small desktop CNC.

[sand lotus]

The price of lumber has come way down. It's very affordable to build up your own desk now.

I've been at this for weeks. Why I haven't been active here much. All my electronics stuff is sitting in boxes.

It's a 4 2x10 by 12 feet desk. Originally designed it for automotive repair work but I'm too old and fat for that anymore. It's a tank of a workbench. Now I'm just into electronics so it's overkill in terms of stability.

[clever summit]

I moved in 6 months ago. Still haven't hooked up everything. First things was one of the 3D printers, second was the soldering station. 🙂

[sand lotus]

2x10x12 are the best bang for the buck for a really long work bench without having to make cuts. Just screw on some legs and a cross brace and you're done.

[brisk bone]

I believe something like that would avoid calling .toString(), then you should receive bytes in python:

const bytes = new Uint8Array([33, 45, 255]);
ws.send(bytes);

[sand lotus]

Besides being able to screw on storage cabinets I want to be able to mount my 12 matrix panel project to the wall. Maybe with Fruit Jam be able to play some retro games on it. Unsure if 12 matrix panels will be compatible with Fruit Jam in terms of a display size?

[brisk bone]

The 200 should not be sent, it is an argument of debounce

[sand lotus]

I have the HDMI capture dongle, the same one from the Adafruit store.

I do have an unused Pi 5 and sounds like Jepler has made some progress with the way it refreshes.

[brisk bone]

On Chome it does pick very fast if you slide pick a color

and it was sending a message to websocket every time

[sand lotus]

Yes but I have 12 panels so the faster refresh rates will likely show more of an impact. Though I've never used matrix panels on a Pi. Last time I used a Pi was Pi3 for PiHole.

Extra bit is a space maybe?

oh that's cool.

what's an up button? like an up arrow?

[brisk bone]

Nice 👏

[inner spade]

Pretty cool.

[sand lotus]

nicely done. i see what you were trying to do now.

[clever summit]

Well, you don't really need debounce for a web page right? 🙂

[brisk bone]

Debounce is specifically for the color picker, as on Chrome it sends "change" event on every pixel you slide inside picker

[sand lotus]

this is for customizing led matrices?

[clever summit]

What, Chrome has a built in color picker?

[brisk bone]

For input[type="color"]

[clever summit]

Oh, did not know that.

[sand lotus]

i used it to change color of an LED candle. don't think i have a guide on that. but yeah i did have to hardcode the colors into code.py

[clever summit]

Thanks!

[brisk bone]

Will you be continuing it next week?

[sand lotus]

great episode, thank you.

[inner spade]

Thanks for the stream!

[sand lotus]

nice LED board too. @inner spade 😉

[smoky island]

I'm not sure what I'll work on next week yet.

[smoky island]

These LED boards are from OakDevTech, Skerr here on discord I believe.

[sand lotus]

see, i get the tree naming conventions both of them have mixed up sometimes. 😛

can't blame me for the mix up because i associate bluefruit more with cgrover because he has some great nrf52840 boards too.

it is awesome to have many great pcb developers here.

[inner spade]

Oaks not Cedars, though. 😄 🌲

[lilac tusk]

Yup, that’s me 😅

[paper peak]

?showtimes

[arctic abyss]

Desk of Ladyada - Sunday Evening
JP's Product Pick of the Week - 4pm ET Tuesdays
3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
John Park's Workshop - 4pm ET Thursdays
Deep Dive w/ Foamyguy - 5pm ET Fridays
FoamyGuy's CircuitPython Stream - 11am ET Saturdays

[merry oxide]

Hi great minds! Has anyone found circuitpython code for creating an ESP32 Access Point?

[inner spade]

👋

[open surge]

👋

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[haughty quiver]

hi there!

[cinder wind]

I am pleased to see that JP has gone all LOBOT in the video thumbnail

[ivory flax]

Good afternoon JP and on this blustery day.

[split gazelle]

hiiiiii

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[inner spade]

… and since the output is direct-coupled, zero-centered bipolar, it can be used as a CV DAC for Eurorack projects! https://adafruit-playground.com/u/CGrover/pages/eurorack-control-voltage-cv-signals-from-synthio

[old surge]

👋

[split gazelle]

double check your i2s wiring, easy to swap pins

[cinder wind]

@haughty quiver looks like your QTPy is also plugged in off-by-one, for the I2S pins at least, looks like A1,A2,A3 but your code is A0,A1,A2

oh okay yeah looks okay close up!

[viral sail]

[old surge]

The longer it takes, the more time to buy! 🤑

[inner spade]

Lars is smiling.

[open surge]

until he heard the static

[old surge]

(I bet Lars did it)

[cinder wind]

Live Soldering With John Park!

[inner spade]

Just as we rehearsed

[cinder wind]

Remember: there are two ends to grab on a soldering iron, both are exciting, but in different ways

[open surge]

Now we're groovin'

[lyric frost]

🎉

[inner spade]

Raise a finger…

[ivory flax]

So sorry, you sacrificed your board for the show

[old surge]

(This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System...)

[cinder wind]

BOOOP

[sand lotus]

Was he trying to hot swap something again?

[cinder wind]

https://github.com/todbot/circuitpython-synthio-tricks/blob/main/examples/tiny_lfo_song/code.py

[old surge]

Amazingly not I2C this time 😄

[bronze chasm]

I made it! At least for part of the show 😹

[old surge]

It died for a noble cause

[split gazelle]

i need to do some testing for the pi

[open surge]

Ladyada in the video said it works with the Pi and SBCs

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[open surge]

Thanks JP

[haughty quiver]

now I'm off to not fry more boards i hope!

[old surge]

Fortunately, you can get a replacement for half the price! Thanks, JP!

[bronze chasm]

Well, dang... I was so excited to get one of those on sale finally, but the shipping starts at $19.90. 😬

[waxen bough]

I figured for $.50 difference might as well go higher quality!

[bronze chasm]

Unfortunate result of living on the other side of the Atlantic

[waxen bough]

That's a shame. Lowest cost here is USPS, about $5. I'd need to buy a lot of product to justify $20 shipping! Unfortunately I can't order batteries shipped USPS, so they are highter.

Anyone have a suggestion for cheap, small, line-level speakers?

[unique cairn]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3885

[haughty quiver]

@waxen bough I used these in the demo today https://www.adafruit.com/product/1363

[cinder wind]

Do you have any Bluetooth speakers? Most have line-in. It's what I use. And since they have built-in batteries, no power cable. The specific one I use is this https://amzn.to/4bKDvIT

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 475 LIVE! Moon Phase Lamp, Severance Speaker and Save Icon https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “moonphase” gets you 10% off your order!

[vagrant flax]

Good morning 👋

[hard hollow]

👋

[rocky reef]

good morning folks!

Subscribe to Adafruit Newsletters - https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

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[rocky reef]

Feather ESP32 V2
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5400

Moon Lamp Guide:
https://learn.adafruit.com/moon-phase-guide/

NeoPixel Strip:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6016

[vagrant flax]

Invincible was great this season

Definitely not for kids 😂

meat tenderizer robot

[limpid pumice]

the missile launcher way over the head cracks me up. Bot would get tossed onto it's back every time haha

[ionic crag]

90% of using blender is... learning blender methods

[hard hollow]

https://www.sloyd.ai/

[vagrant flax]

oh the seam selection is awesome, I wonder if Prusa Slicer has that

[limpid pumice]

Hello!
I'm trying to provide the correct attributions in my product for the sounds used in the the "Lightsaber Prop-Maker RP2040" project bundle. I have the attributions for the code, but am struggling to find the source of the sounds. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Sorry to stray from topic, appreciate the help @hard hollow

[ionic crag]

to be fair... most OS's let you delete them... (some easier than others)

[vagrant flax]

these floppy disk prints would be cool for attaching little RFID tags to and making them little scannable tag things

I use the PolyMaker white too, I love it for diffusion. The star fragments look great with it

[hard hollow]

https://www.printables.com/model/1221697-macintosh-no-startup-disk-icon-tag

[rocky reef]

https://www.printables.com/model/1231510-adafruit-rp2040-lightsaber-upgrades

https://www.printables.com/model/1230550-neotrellis-case

https://www.printables.com/model/1225900-frontplate-remix-with-cat-ears

Today's coupon code “moonphase” gets you 10% off your order!

[vagrant flax]

Great show, thanks @hard hollow and @rocky reef 😄

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for hanging out folks!

[shell mason]

thee great printers unite

[viral sail]

Thanks @rocky reef & @hard hollow . See you all tonight.

[shell mason]

GTC 2025 showed nice robot

of course i join when it ends

[hard hollow]

thanks folks! cya tonight

[hard hollow]

OK I was able to track down the source of the original sound effects, they can be found here https://www.fx-sabers.com/forum/index.php?topic=41379.0

[limpid pumice]

Thank you!

[open girder]

Link to join to show and share your project! https://streamyard.com/ifw7n6gz8x & WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! SHOW AND TELL! https://youtu.be/v2NG7nlR2JU

[open surge]

👋

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[nova totem]

Evening all. Was supposed to be out but stuck at home sick this is a great alternative!

[tulip canyon]

👋

[severe inlet]

AppleTalk!

[nova totem]

Very cool. The whole mac brings back a lot of memories

[rapid hornet]

👋

[cinder wind]

it's bonkers to me that this little $1 microcontroller can run MacOS in EMULATION

[tulip canyon]

Hands
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you

[nova totem]

That's a great trivia category. Computer startup sounds and which OS they were

[open girder]

NAME that START UP SOUND

i can name that sound in 2 notes, er, versions, monte

[cinder wind]

oh can the emulator run Glider? that was a favorite as a kid https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/arcade/glider/index.html

[severe inlet]

It's the Year of the

[nova totem]

I forgot about Glider. That was a great game

[rotund torrent]

hi, any upcoming news on the Feather RP2350 with usb host?

[cinder wind]

FruitJam video synth incoming with integral kaledescope mode....

[tulip canyon]

Thanks all for sharing

[vagrant flax]

Thanks for showing everything off!

[upbeat coral]

Thank you to all who shared

[tulip canyon]

I have been testing some custom fonts on the Feather TFT-S3
MyriadPro-Bold-72-75.bdf

and also MyriadPro-Bold-24-25.bdf

[open girder]

WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! ASK AN ENGINEER! https://youtu.be/40RQE9mGCLE

[nova totem]

I love how the LED matrix wall looks

[vagrant flax]

It's soo good

[cinder wind]

"128x128?!? My phone's icons are higher res than that!" ahahah

[nova totem]

It's crazy how good my 64x64 matrix looks just playing gifs in my window

[dim knot]

https://learn.adafruit.com/

[nova totem]

The 3d print technique is Lithophane. There are websites out there to help create them from images

[cinder wind]

should make a run of those QTPy snap-fit brackets for the store 🙂

[nova totem]

wavetables on a piezo

[dim knot]

Cytron MOTION 2350 Pro - RP2350 Robotics Controller https://www.adafruit.com/product/6080

Adafruit ESP32-S2 Feather with w.FL Antenna - STEMMA QT / Qwiic https://www.adafruit.com/product/6282

Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit Sparkle Motion https://www.adafruit.com/product/6301

Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit Mini Sparkle Motion https://www.adafruit.com/product/6299

[nova totem]

@open girder Sorry if you answered this week I posted it late and I'll relisten if I missed it but:
If I am using a HUSB238 breakout to get 12V to light LEDs (the 480 per meter strip) and want to use PWM to dim the LEDs what would be my best option? Some type of MOSFET or is there a breakout board that would work?

[tulip canyon]

Mega Ma'am

[shy topaz]

No they don't.

[cinder wind]

First FruitJam addon should be a little haptic driver that makes floppy drive tic-tic-tic noises

[rich wing]

As an owner of a gray Honda Element, flying toasters is the ONE thing I wanted to see... the HyperCard was the 3rd programming platform I learned - behind Logo and Apple Basic. 😄

Can it play Shuffle Puck Cafe?

[gray obsidian]

Now, emulating the Ti92 would be useful 😛

[shy topaz]

Will it emulate SCSI?

[gray obsidian]

mass_storage has a lot of special case for boggus keys though, they each have their own fixups

you can use SCSI for storage, and also for WiFi, the newest BlueSCSI for example emulates an antique DaynaPort ethernet card

[rich wing]

SCSI scanners 😄

Rescue zip disks

[gray obsidian]

yeah, bulky things 🙂

Don't think BlueSCSI implements scanners yet

[open girder]

10% off! Use code: hypercase on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://adafruit.com/new

[gray obsidian]

BlueSCSI doesn't emulate click-of-death yet 😄

But you can configure multiple HD/ZIP/CD targets at once on the SD card

and wifi

[rich wing]

Hp scanjet

[gray obsidian]

but it uses a whole RP2040 for that

[cinder wind]

thanks Limor, thanks pt!

[gray obsidian]

thanks!

[tulip canyon]

Thank you Adafruit

[nova totem]

Thanks for the answer! Trying to set up my own LED lights for my bathroom cause why buy when you can build (for 3 times the cost and 10 times the time) 🙂

[timid plover]

thanks - great to see all the Fruit Jam progress

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us.

[gray obsidian]

"a few hours later"

[rich wing]

You'll remember it at 3am 😄

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌖

[vagrant flax]

Thanks for the show, goodnight everyone

[dim knot]

Night all!

[lyric frost]

👋

[rotund torrent]

Thank you gn

[thin tide]

Microtek was a very common scanner brand back in the early days.

[dawn magnet]

Hi JP from rainy WA

[vagrant flax]

Hello! 👋

[tulip canyon]

👋

[haughty quiver]

hi there!

[dawn magnet]

For Show and Tell how do users do the video?

[haughty quiver]

from sunny Socal

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[old surge]

👋

[inner spade]

Dry winds over here on the desert side of WA.🌬️

[ivory flax]

Hi JP. Hope your workshop goes better today.

[old surge]

Today on JP's Workshop: "Test Patterns" - how to tell if you've fried a board? 😉

[alpine nova]

hi

[cinder wind]

FRÜTJÅM

[old surge]

Sounds like a Scandinavian metal band

[cinder wind]

Really hard to design a board that's resilient to off-by-one errors on a breadboard. I've killed a few boards that way

[old surge]

The Dedication of JP: The Show Must Go On!

[ivory flax]

So your board did get fried. So sorry for that

[old surge]

Good lesson for us all

[vagrant flax]

I fried an itsy bitsy the exact same way once 😭

[cinder wind]

I don't think it's repairable

[ivory flax]

Ah no magic smoke

[cinder wind]

maybe maybe could replace the on-board vreg, if that's what blew

[old surge]

😂

[cinder wind]

ahah reminds me of this question on /r/AskElectronics today: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/1jfpzt7/how_can_i_stop_this_from_happening/

[old surge]

Circuit board dead-man switch? 🤣

[vagrant flax]

Love it. Time to make some terminal games

[old surge]

REPong

[dawn magnet]

What IDE are u using

[cinder wind]

This does depend on what font your terminal is using

oh Zed has a terminal plugin? neat

yep it's in there by default. fun

I normally have regular terminal windows open but this is nice too

hmm, looks like it does run its own Python, not the Python set by your shell

or something I dunno. so many Pythons on my computer

[tulip canyon]

I noticed circup downloads the bundle regardless if the library exists

Did you see recently SNES consoles are found to run faster over time?

[cinder wind]

of course JP gets a game console and finds a way to get test patterns out of it

that's a neat little monitor, this one I think? https://www.adafruit.com/product/1667

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/geometry-math-math-art-conformal-rainbow-gif-13600580

one not simply make test pattern from lars

[old surge]

Looked like an intro to a Minecraft James Bond movie at first...

[cinder wind]

"He says you FrameBuffer"

nope, can't hear the audio much

[ivory flax]

Lite but yes

[cinder wind]

yes! sounds good

[vagrant flax]

much better

[shell mason]

Lars the frameBuffer

FrameBuffer Lars49

[cinder wind]

MarioRave

[shell mason]

[vagrant flax]

Wild to me they spent so much effort on this game and there was no real way to even share your creations at the time

I need a FruitJam

so excited

[cinder wind]

me too

[vagrant flax]

Great show JP, thank you! Have a good weekend!

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/jackscope-gif-19049938

[dry marten]

Thanks for the show @haughty quiver

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP

[dawn magnet]

Great show

[inner spade]

Thanks!

[old surge]

Thank you, JP! Have a pleasant afternoon/evening all

[haughty quiver]

thanks bunches!

[ivory flax]

Great show thanks. Have a super weekend

[lyric sphinx]

fyi youtube still showing JP live.

[haughty quiver]

lol thanks, @lyric sphinx

[dawn magnet]

Hi Tim from rainy WA. What IDE do you use?

[open surge]

👋

[old surge]

👋

[old surge]

(He uses PyCharm)

[dawn magnet]

Thank you,

I use a RPi P500 with Thonny

Still no video like last week

[smoky island]

The link for this week's deep dive is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wb0ce3lHXo I had trouble setting it up again so there is a broken YT page that won't have the stream on it.

I'll remove it later.

[old surge]

https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython/pycharm-and-circuitpython

[nova totem]

too quiet now 🙂 at least for me

[old surge]

(Got your back, Tim 😉 Happy to help)

[dawn magnet]

The YT Live does not work, link ab ove works

[nova totem]

Convert mp4 to gif, play gif? 🙂

[bold roost]

Nah, too easy

[nova totem]

Black should be background that remains static.

The harder solution is cooler though

[bold roost]

Dang, that looks good already!

[old surge]

Very cool! Like the character (apple?) - very Mario-esque

[nova totem]

All I can see on YT is your screen right now, nothing else

[old surge]

Yes, wasn't sure if that was intentional. The REPL/animation, yeah

Am I understanding correctly that the 'overshoot' produces the visual bounce?

(Ah, asked and answered 😅 )

[nova totem]

All this on its own, is much more interesting as a tutorial and just in general, then playing a GIF. I think a lot of newer coders would love to learn this technique

[bold roost]

Is it not possible to "squash" (scale veritically) the sprites without needing a sprite sheet for that animation?

[nova totem]

What is the screen resolution?

If you have the time (or ping me if you have a question) I think knowing if the GIF runs / how fast would be interesting. I had some large ones running but Jeff had a hint to send it direct to the display (bypassing parts of displayio)

TileGrid is slow 😦 It is on my wish list to have sped up

[old surge]

(Alright, was using different terms, but referred to the same action. Reminds me of what they call (over)scroll bounce)

[nova totem]

The hard part (and has been looked at) is CP internally renders the frame, then sends it to the display. Using DMA it could be calculating the next frame while frame-1 draws.

If I recall

[old surge]

Grey-mlins

[vagrant flax]

I had to do a bunch of palette
stuff recently and I really liked Aseprite for it

[old surge]

(And it keeps you off of the Adobe subscription treadmill 🤑 )

[vagrant flax]

Yeah I think it's been in some bundles

[old surge]

(Those were the days - when you could buy and own software)

(I mean, Adobe is an industry standard for a good reason, but I won't support their 'rental software' business model)

[vagrant flax]

Biggest problem with Adobe is the really anti-consumer business practices tbh

[old surge]

A big difference is the availability of a near-full-featured community version of PyCharm, etc. I haven't looked at the pricing in a little while, but IIRC JetBrains had comparatively more for hobbyist-friendly offerings

It certainly more closely resembles jam when red... 😄

Goals for future refactoring, perhaps

Thank you much for the stream, Tim! Have a nice weekend

(Unfortunately work on Saturdays 😕 Miss the Sunday streams)

[dawn magnet]

good nite

[old surge]

(You did Sunday streams for a little bit as well - only to say, happy when I'm able to catch it live)

[smoky island]

I am getting started for this morning's stream. Playing with the new LVGL font support and working on a launcher menu for fruit jam. You can follow along on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9mHuTajbXg or twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

SizedGroup

I AM a system architect so naming stuff is what I do 😎

[inner spade]

Thanks!

[open girder]

Desk of Ladyada – Marchintosh on Fruit Jam 🍎💾

Ladyada tests final TLV320DAC3100 boards for Fruit Jam, revises the PCB, and explores Jepler’s pico-mac. Also designs a USB-C CC resistor fix board. For the next rev, she hunts an 8-ohm PCB-mount speaker under 0.8" for onboard beeps.

https://youtu.be/heGi3ctx4Kg

🏰⚡

[shell mason]

fruitajmming after dark

[open girder]

🍞 🪽

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/screensaver-afterdark-flying-toasters-gif-14725506

[wind spoke]

Q: If you drag and drop the floppy in the trash can, does it eject the micro SD?

[open girder]

no, the microSD is not understood by the mac OS

[shell mason]

if it was a toaster then might be the fancy if it does

[wind spoke]

RevA vs RevB: "Almost everything is the same."

[haughty quiver]

one very nice change is the extra space between HDMI port and USB-C port. Some bigger cables were getting in the way

[ivory flax]

Ready for your show JP. But I don't speak Russian. Did someone hack your sit LOL

[haughty quiver]

lol nyet

[tulip canyon]

In Soviet Russia, Product pick you!

[open surge]

👋

[split gazelle]

hihi

[haughty quiver]

Hello all y'all!

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[ivory flax]

Hi everyone and JP. What beautiful Spring day. Ah man I just bought this board last week... oh well.

[inner spade]

👋

[tulip kestrel]

Hi

[dawn magnet]

Can power be applied to USB and Barrel connecter at the same time?

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/travelling-cyberpunk-edgerunners-tour-moving-train-going-on-a-trip-gif-25909273

[tulip kestrel]

What is the psram and does it run better or more memory

[shell mason]

Metro RP2450 Rhythm Composer

[dawn magnet]

Where is the code posted for today's show?

[tulip kestrel]

Can you play audio from the SD card nadivly

[inner spade]

Thanks!

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP

[dawn magnet]

Great show

[haughty quiver]

thanks much all!

[runic drift]

Watching the show now... missed the discount but loving what this board can do..

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 476 LIVE! Severance Speaker, Round Display Case and Flexy Pangolin https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “bluespeaker” gets you 10% off your order!

[vagrant flax]

Good morning 👋

[rocky reef]

good morning folks

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[urban gale]

Hi all!

[rocky reef]

Subscribe to Adafruit Newsletters - https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

Adafruit Certificates: -
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3331

https://www.adafruit.com/free

[gaunt plume]

🌄

[rocky reef]

Speaker Learn Guide:
https://learn.adafruit.com/bluetooth-speaker/

Feather ESP32 V2:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5400

I2S 3W Amplifier:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3006

3W Speaker:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4445

New Parts! 3D Parts on GitHub - https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CAD_Parts

Adafruit Fritzing Library parts - https://github.com/adafruit/Fritzing-Library/tree/master/parts

[vagrant flax]

you do get what you pay for with those cheap boards though lol

[urban gale]

East coaster. No Fry's here 😦

Ooh we have a Micro Center

[vagrant flax]

lmao sounds like when I worked at Best Buy in my early 20s 😂

people had some clever ways of stealing stuff man

[hard hollow]

https://lumalabs.ai/genie?view=create

[urban gale]

got a dual-nozzle 4 years ago and never used it once

I make a lot of internal parts for my artwork that nobody will ever see

[hard hollow]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1090887-flexi-pangolin#profileId-1084404

[rocky reef]

Adafruit Fritzing Library parts - https://github.com/adafruit/Fritzing-Library/tree/master/parts

Today's coupon code “bluespeaker” gets you 10% off your order!

thanks so much for hanging out folks!

[vagrant flax]

Thanks for the show guys!

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us

[tulip canyon]

Never get to watch 3D hangouts live...
Just wondering if you all happened to see Corridor Crew 3D printed video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-6rXCtHb_U
Mo-cap to model 3d printed for stop motion video. Pretty neat and in-depth

[tulip canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/severance-natalie-the-board-gif-4611812830086501125

[robust horizon]

good evening you fine people!

[near tartan]

Hello @robust horizon 🙂

[open girder]

SHOW and TELL 3/26/2025 https://youtu.be/78OA2HKGOQ8 & Link to join to show and share your project! https://streamyard.com/94nt66rrsp

[haughty quiver]

hi!

[open surge]

👋

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[inner spade]

👋

[robust horizon]

machine lurking?

[tulip canyon]

Yeah OpenMV

I'm a backer of both N6 and Ae3

[robust horizon]

I was looking at the page earlier and it was neat that they highlighted ulab. ulab is cool.

[tulip canyon]

Happy M7 previous backer

[robust horizon]

(it lets you do numpy-like stuff in circuitpython & micropython)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openmv/openmv-n6-and-ae3-low-power-python-programmable-ai-cameras

[tulip canyon]

The fact it's a global shutter seems underplayed

[dim knot]

https://openmv.io/

[alpine nova]

no twitch stream?

[tulip canyon]

The IDE is also pretty awesome

The AE3 has QwIIC / Stemma but the N6 does not.

[cinder wind]

yay @robust horizon!

[tulip canyon]

Super excited for OpenMV new offerings

[near tartan]

@tulip canyon Was that you just presenting the AI Camera?

[tulip canyon]

Hope not :/

[cinder wind]

Loved Archon

[open surge]

ditto!

[near tartan]

Is the guy that did the Computer Vision Camera in the chat here?

[alpine nova]

❤️

[tulip canyon]

Thank you @robust horizon

[wind spoke]

❤️

[open surge]

thank you jepler!

[smoky island]

[inner spade]

❤️

[dire pond]

hearts!

[haughty quiver]

💖

[sand lotus]

❤️ You were, are, and always will be an inspiration @robust horizon

[robust horizon]

I think Adafruit may be a bit like the proverbial Hotel California. I'm checking out, but I'm not leaving 🤣

This community has been awesome and I'll be around especially here on the Discord

[nova scroll]

❤️

[tulip canyon]

siggraph '94

[alpine nova]

i totally remember bryce

[robust horizon]

and now .. g'night all!

[severe inlet]

It's not actually for sale, but Apple has a Lumon terminal on their product pages. https://www.apple.com/mac/lumon-terminal-pro/

[alpine nova]

https://tenor.com/view/mark-severance-gif-10989960004915789649

[cinder wind]

not for sale yet

[severe inlet]

You can build your own using LIz's guide. https://learn.adafruit.com/portable-macrodata-refinement-terminal

[sand lotus]

Flute is just a block instrument with reverb. 😁 love synth projects. Great stuff JP!

[alpine nova]

el wire without the noise

bent//broken virtual circuit bending festival
saturday mar 29 11am edt
twitch.tv/echolightwave_unspeakable
72 circuitbenders worldwide

[upbeat coral]

Thank you to all who shared

[tulip canyon]

Thanks all

[open girder]

ASK AN ENGINEER 3/26/2025 LIVE! https://youtu.be/g9bPuSoTO_o

10% off! Use code: openmv on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://adafruit.com/new

[dim knot]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openmv/openmv-n6-and-ae3-low-power-python-programmable-ai-cameras

[tulip canyon]

Again assurance with delivery is a big thing

AI on the edge is the future. AO is big but collection at the edge is huge

[tulip kestrel]

Question: i bout a metro RP2350 with no PSRAM. what is PSRAM and what make it different to the one that has PSRAM?

[cinder wind]

oh yeah the fav cheap little Lolin S2 Mini is up there! Newly interesting now that ESP32 can do audioio in CircuitPython with its DACs now!

[tulip canyon]

The arduino 4.5 hour stream format was hard to dive into

[dim knot]

https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

[upbeat coral]

A guy in Australia has taken this and used it to replace the TI-99/4A VDP and provide VGA out.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/367656-pico9918-a-tms9918a-drop-in-replacement-powered-by-a-pi-pico-rp2040/

[cinder wind]

PoE is so cool. I've been re-doing my home LAN to use PoE devices

[dim knot]

USB Wired Mouse - Two Buttons plus Wheel https://www.adafruit.com/product/2025

Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector https://www.adafruit.com/product/6281

Pimoroni Plasma 2350 W - Wireless RP2350 LED Driver - PIM729 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6246

Pimoroni Inky Frame 7.3" - Pico 2 W Aboard - PIM737 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6247

Adafruit ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT with w.FL Antenna https://www.adafruit.com/product/6303

Adafruit TLV320DAC3100 - I2S DAC with Headphone and Speaker Out https://www.adafruit.com/product/6309

[upper sandal]

oh hey, my childhood !

[upbeat coral]

Search for Hammer Header

[dim knot]

2.54mm / 0.1" Pitch Press-Fit Male Pin Header https://www.adafruit.com/product/5938

[tulip canyon]

Late Question; Which gas will we want to detect in the recent future?

[tulip kestrel]

Question: is the metro RP2350 work with WLED?

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us.

[tulip kestrel]

have a good night Adafruit

[tulip canyon]

Thank you @open girder Have a great week!

[upper sandal]

👋

[dim knot]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openmv/openmv-n6-and-ae3-low-power-python-programmable-ai-cameras

Night all!

[lilac tusk]

My WiFi APs are PoE, super nice!

[inner spade]

👋 🌲

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[open surge]

good afternoon

[split gazelle]

hiiiii

[ivory flax]

Hi all

[vagrant flax]

hello! 👋

[cinder wind]

OH ITS ON

[inner spade]

Looks like a mini game console. Very smooth design.

[cinder wind]

it's a weird shoe

[haughty quiver]

most things are, Tod, most things are

👞

[inner spade]

Not my grandfather’s Red Wing though.

[cinder wind]

wow Rhino deals with that million+ triangle mesh so much better than Fusion 360. Fusion would just explode when opening that mesh

yep can hear it. sounds good

[vagrant flax]

Niiiice this is so cool

[open surge]

The Fruit Jam is never going to stay in stock when it comes out I have a feeling

[vagrant flax]

Fact

[inner spade]

Other possible features: chord/ auto harmony, percussion, arpeggios.

[vagrant flax]

Thanks JP! Awesome stuff!

[ivory flax]

Fun show. Thanks JP

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver . Have a great weekend everyone.

[open surge]

thank you JP, good show

[inner spade]

Always cool stuff in the workshop. Thanks!

[haughty quiver]

thanks all!

here's the Supercade link I mentioned https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vanburnham/supercade-a-visual-history-of-the-videogame-age-1971-1984/description

[timid plover]

@haughty quiver - I don't see the 'live' recording from yesterdays workshop - did I miss it?

[haughty quiver]

https://www.youtube.com/live/e_RHnAFBvYI

[timid plover]

hi Scott!

[haughty quiver]

does it not show up there on YT main page @timid plover ?

[nova totem]

👋

[open surge]

hihi

[gritty falcon]

Hi Scott!

[brazen grove]

oink!

[nova totem]

I feel you so much, I've had to cancel trips like that before. Plus been fighting stomach stuff all winter I feel.

[gritty falcon]

What are the screen dimensions you're using?

[austere python]

Ok im going to discord im getting dono walled
Im bout to dump my messages from twitter lmfao:

- You should Check out RooCode ITS INSANELY GOOD FOR AN EXTENSION
- (You can use the free LLM's from OpenRouter with it)
- Windsurf is good but the limits is hard to use daily

[smoky island]

I tried using the keyboard emoji in a label ⌨️ but it does not render. I only have the latest release of bitmap font though, I don't know if your changes already fixed that maybe?

the one checked in to the repo unifont-16.0.02-ascii-emoji.bin

[austere python]

I hit the Windsurf limits so fast on the Pro plan like 2-3 weeks max I main cursor instead for daily usage now UI/UX I use Windsurf

[timid plover]

so what's the difference between the "printed" emojis and the ones in the status bar ?

[austere python]

Why not just click Control + Shift + V and click emoji button then type in the emoji you want

Ohh you're on mac?

OOOO

This reminds me of using the conversion of the key codes in JS for on click events...

It was a nightmare

Want to be amazed?

Use Gemini 2.5 Pro

https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat (Just use the AI studio since its free rate limit of 50/day 2/min req but its SOOO good)

Claude Code is soooo expensive

You would be amazed if you tried RooCode with the free OpenRouter API with 2.5 Pro its better than 3.7 in most uses

(I know most older coders are like I been doig it this way why change now)

But so did the Brick n mortar mom n pop shops before Amazon put them out of business

RooCode is SOOOO fast

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[austere python]

(Not affiliated with any of these companies either just a solo tech enthusiast and dev since 7)

You're being a engineer and supervisor

[timid plover]

so that code review / accept is integrated with cascade ? ( I thought you were accepting pull requests or something )

[austere python]

You know the logic, you know how it works, the syntax is the hard part after.

Like you maybe not as involved on that side but I also have many pi's and stuff also I use for AI machine vision projects but had to upgrade because it wasn't fast enough on CPU

[timid plover]

does cascade "learn" when you reject a diff - ( or is it seeing your whole edit buffer )

[austere python]

It just takes into context which Claude has a 200k context length and they also "Index your codebase" but it don't always help it often repeats logic across larger projects

Can I hook up a 3070 to your pi?

Lmfaoo

Thats all I need

Yee noooo

DONT

I have a 4090 you need like min A100 to get decent results and speed comparable

For machine vision though running on CPU is horrible I need dedicated GPU

(Embedded systems that is)

[timid plover]

desktop ?

[austere python]

o7 Credits

Thats the same thing RooCode does

RooCode is like Windsurf on steroids I feel

Best part is RooCode is JUST a extension

So you can use it on normal VSCode

[timid plover]

what do you bump into that troubles you with vscode ?

[austere python]

Ehh its kinda just a bit more polished thats why I didn't originally like Cursor

It felt foreign

[timid plover]

so it has read access to all the files on your file system ?

[austere python]

Yee

Cursor you can even add your own sources of docs to reference and download the docs to learn the newest and latest versions

Just for that tho

Now imagine I code for 55hrs a week

Since 3.5 first dropped been constantly learning and daily more and more better models are being released

3.5 GPT*

3.7 is def top 2-3 at minimum

(Thinking models seem to cause issues for me with coding it often just starts doing what it wants)

Reasoning/Thinking is great for complex code or planning out your structure

Simple changes though it will just start doing random stuff I didn't even think of...

Wanna try roo? 😏

Lmfao

[timid plover]

how much debugging support do the AI tools provide

[austere python]

INSANE amounts...

Bro Roo will iterate over all lint errors until its done

I made a fully automated filling machine using python

With remote SSH on a DellOptiplex and Raspberry Pi 4

Filling

idk if thats allowed or cared

but thats what I built

(Note its ALL machine vision alignment with a camera mounted to the head)

Pin perfect alignment

Yee nah this was a 2 year project 56,000$ machine... Lmao

Not all LLM lots of planning and headaches

Thats my next major refactor I need to do next is convert all my Py to C was looking into learning Rust or Go though also... But not sure C seems to be the best option

(Cursor also has that) but yeah they did a huge overhaul on their "Tab Completion" for the AI haters old school

Yee if its like a repeptitive change or simple edit its a waste of time to wait for the LLM to think

Older models it used to be constant just generate and fix the issues it caused I mainly use it for rough large refactors

(Also Ill try to find a video but like all AI stuff they have new releases basically daily so everything is a week old isn't relevant or just clickbait hype)

Is the Repo open source? If anything id send a screenshot to claude and a code snippet you changed and ask

Just to get a bit of insight like asking someone else for their opinion who knows all

[timid plover]

desktop ?

[austere python]

To troubleshoot this:

Verify your font is properly converted for CircuitPython (using tools like font_to_py.py)
Check your display initialization parameters (bit depth, color mode)
Try displaying basic text first before attempting emojis
Review your code for proper font loading and character encoding

Could you share the specific code you're using to load and display the emojis? That would help me provide more targeted assistance.```

Just from the screenshot anyways

I can see you're encountering a display issue with your CircuitPython project. What you're seeing is a common problem when working with bitmap fonts or emojis in CircuitPython. The pattern of repeating characters suggests there's likely an encoding or font loading issue.

I provided VERY little context screenshot and "Circuit py emoji font issue"

[timid plover]

you have 4 hour old code at https://github.com/tannewt/circuitpython/commits/lvfontio/

I thought @austere python might throw it at Roo ?

[austere python]

Yee

[timid plover]

isn't there a way to do that with openocd ( bootloader mode ? )

[austere python]

I am having issues cloning it for some reason

[timid plover]

( I made that mistake once (submodules 🙂 - then I found the directions 🙂

[austere python]

Got it now lemme see if I can wizard this

I just threw it at Roo letting it cook thru the codebase rn with Gemini 2.5 and its 1mill context window

We fixed her?

Also this is why I LOVE roo...

I need your answer to that

It offers 4 suggestions

What version is your CircuitPython 9.0?

[timid plover]

gray scale - as in anti aliasing ?

[austere python]

Thats how I started I was scared of the automation

Now I know how to drive it

I wish I had more background knowledge on this and pi not in use to test with as mine is currently running Klipper lmfao

Because its asking questions I cant answer

Or test

Bottom right click settings and enable Fast auto complete

Memories for me havent provided much value they often "Remember" project specifics then try to apply them to a different irrelevant file

or project fully

(The 6000 chars counts towards the context length)

[timid plover]

can it read your build instructions in the documentation ?
( it didn't even suggest adding a board - just "make -j.."

[austere python]

https://codeium.com/windsurf/directory

[shell mason]

deep wind surf

[austere python]

Deep Surf V3

[shell mason]

Deep dive V3

[austere python]

Thats what that directory is

[timid plover]

since we are getting near the end - I was going to ask what the new hdmi capture tool was

[austere python]

It just gives basic instructions to follow best practices and such

[rapid hornet]

https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=141-U1-CB20-LR

[austere python]

@rapid hornet https://x.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1905661054929211438

👩‍💻 Paige Bailey (@DynamicWebPaige) on X

❤️Friendly reminder that you can use Gemini 2.5 Pro and other Gemini models in your favorite IDEs:

@codeiumdev
@cursor_ai
@SourcegraphCody
@continuedev
@cline
@roo_code
@Ableton
@UnrealEngine
@unitygames
@GitHub Copilot
@GoogleColab
@AndroidStudio
@googlechrome DevTools
more!

X · Mar 28, 2025, 4:39 PM

[shell mason]

github have models marketplace for github copilot https://github.com/marketplace?type=models

[timid plover]

thank you Scott

[austere python]

Use roocode with Windsurf = MAX

AI just made 1month refactors become a 2 days refactor is the issue lmfao

o7

[smoky island]

I am getting started for this mornings stream, working on the Set card game in CircuitPython. You can follow along on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch and YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8WijLU3Jnw

[sand lotus]

Good morning. ☕️

Future Tim has sent a message. Read in private 😂

Fruit jam has been “coming soon” for like 2 months. I’ve been waiting to get one. However I don’t have a workbench or pc setup yet so wouldn’t matter anyway. I’m still at least a week from staining the desktop. 😣

If it’s in the store then soon would be less than a month, otherwise hold off on putting it in the store because it gets shuffled down the list of “new products” and I end up forgetting about it. If I can’t put it in my cart I end up forgetting to get one.

That’s just me though. I always check out new products first.

Yeah seems like they want some games available before it ships. I’m interested in making a game too like pong or something.

Will the ugame games work with it? I forget the game framework name.

Something simple to display on my 12 matrix array which I’m framing and hanging very soon.

A class? If you’re adding classes to code.py then time to think about writing a library.

6 seconds is oddly specific

[inner spade]

The Adafruit shop has a “list” feature that I use — for that reason. When a new product comes out that I’m certain I’ll need (read: most if not all), it goes into the list. Then when the budget allows, click on load list into cart. Almost too easy.

[sand lotus]

I always forget about lists. 🤦

Thank you. Will do.

[inner spade]

It’s really more of a dictionary. 😄

[sand lotus]

You can’t put “coming soon” items in a cart. That’s why lists are better for them.

I’m out of here for today. Workbench won’t build itself. Have a great weekend!

[inner spade]

Fun to watch the progress. Thanks for the stream!

[open girder]

Desk of Ladyada - Slow Sunday Pokes 🔧🎧📦
https://youtu.be/mrvS-7-kkfM

Testing a PCM5122 I2S DAC, adding LEDs to the 8x solenoid driver, and prototyping a "USB CC Fixer" to charge a tricky baby monitor. Also we're on the hunt for a stereo I2S amp with 5W+ output.

[sand lotus]

Will RAM doubler be available? 😁

[sand lotus]

There is always an elegance in simplicity.

[open girder]

[sand lotus]

I would get one and test it in my mail boombox. 45W yes plz. ❤️ Have a great weekend!

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[open surge]

👋

[split gazelle]

hihihihi

[ivory flax]

Good afternoon JP and all. Glorious day today.

[lyric frost]

Hi All

[tulip canyon]

Hope you all had a April foolless day

[echo canopy]

Heyyy 👋

[old surge]

👋

[shell mason]

make it sparkle

lars spot is cool

[ivory flax]

Rats I forgot to order the cases

[echo canopy]

The pins 32 and 33 level shifted to 5v , is that only for output ? Curious if it’s still 3v sensitive for just one of them being used as an input (I know it also has a JST )

QUESTION

@open girder

[tulip kestrel]

Will I have to soldier connectors to control an LED strip? Question

[ivory flax]

So right out the box it will work?

[lyric frost]

If you setup a separate 12v power circuit (ground connected) I think you could use this to drive the patio lights. Maybe???

[ivory flax]

Thanks

[tulip kestrel]

🥺 👍

[old surge]

Press-in/Hammer-in pins

Thanks, JP!

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[haughty quiver]

thank you all!

[open surge]

thanks JP

[old surge]

@haughty quiver Were you trying to have your title card today invoke the style of Star Wars novel covers?

[haughty quiver]

ahaha maybe subconciously

[old surge]

😄 Well, it works, intentional or not!

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 477 LIVE! Asteroid Tracker, Camera Slider and REPO Robot https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “springbreak” gets you 10% off your order! https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live

[vagrant flax]

Good morning! 👋

[viral sail]

Good morning.

[hard hollow]

hey folks!

[rocky reef]

good morning

[past nova]

Hey

[rocky reef]

Subscribe to Adafruit Newsletters - https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

https://www.adafruit.com/free

[vagrant flax]

Ugh it's an ad

I got that yesterday

cuz what discord really needed was more ways to annoy me

Reminds me of a Futurama episode 😂

[shell mason]

switch2 mode joycons

launch tracker calendar could be fancy

as isar aerospace first test flight launch explode after launch from norway spacesport

https://tenor.com/view/spectrum-starliner-isar-aerospace-can-be-delayed-spin-gif-8789421832442197416

nice angle connector

one not put neokey on top of the pile

[hard hollow]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNYGSDPX?ref=fed_asin_title

https://www.adafruit.com/product/6178

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5772

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5700

[gaunt plume]

looks really good

[shell mason]

slider what also balane slider itself too on tripod

so python way

now the skin texture also circuit

[gaunt plume]

honestly not bad for AI

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-chat-star-wars-box-droid-nvidia-blue-gif-4065786642429917093

[hard hollow]

https://www.meshy.ai/

https://tenor.com/view/repo-hop-on-repo-kittensneeze-blier-attack-gif-9337603373352789386

https://tenor.com/view/storybots-story-bots-hi-bye-robots-gif-5390129568417794465

https://tenor.com/view/bed-storybots-happy-bedtime-gif-11450021898945711662

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/repo-repo-game-game-what-did-you-just-say-gif-4289058049802181267

one game similar had players wearing hasmat suits

[hard hollow]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1192726-repo-robot-posable-and-disposable#profileId-1204842

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/switch-2-nintendo-switch-2-switch-2-reveal-nintendo-switch-two-gif-7549416051540108429

if you want to design things for new joygons it have metal on connector side

[rocky reef]

https://www.printables.com/model/1237591-spaceship-earth-nightlight

[vagrant flax]

Thanks for the show @rocky reef @hard hollow!

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for hanging out folks!

[viral sail]

Thanks @hard hollow & @rocky reef . See you all tonight.

[vagrant flax]

That was a great episode btw! Really enjoyed hearing y'all talk about your projects

[past nova]

great episode, thanks

enjoy your break

[hard hollow]

thank you! cya tonight

[tulip canyon]

Hello 👋

[vagrant flax]

Hello! 👋

[nova totem]

Evening everyone

[tulip canyon]

Tariffic evening to you all 😉

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[open girder]

SHOW and TELL 4/2/2025 https://youtu.be/Rjy6STlI6Tw & Link to join to show and share your project! https://streamyard.com/euc4bfuqge

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[open surge]

good evening

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[smoky island]

The interface is looking slick! and the syntio and wavs are awesome. Great job @haughty quiver

[haughty quiver]

thanks!

[severe inlet]

Is it cost prohibitive to have different colors of PCB boards? For Fruit Jam, you could have different 'flavors' like the early iMacs.

[haughty quiver]

@lyric nova that's so great!

[cinder wind]

I'm kinda always crackly

[vagrant flax]

no whammies!

[cinder wind]

2025 will the year that audio works on Linux! (I say with love, doing audio stuff on Linux since the 90s)

[haughty quiver]

audio works on Linux already... when it feels like it

[upbeat coral]

I've been having better luck with the latest Raspberry Pi and OS.

[haughty quiver]

that looks really cool @vagrant flax

[nova totem]

I really like how that looks, living in a place where the ISS flies basically overtop of me

[cinder wind]

The timelapse of @vagrant flax project is great! I saw it on bsky! https://bsky.app/profile/apendley.bsky.social/post/3llramzlqh22f

squid.jpg (@apendley.bsky.social)

New time lapse I took while I was sleeping, showcasing the New Science Medium font and the adding a decay to the ISS trail as it ages. I have one more idea to mitigate against the unrecognized characters that still slip in that I'm gonna hack on for a bit, then finally gonna be done lol.

▶ Play video

Bluesky · Apr 1, 2025, 4:01 PM

[upbeat coral]

Track the latest "Circum-Polar" flight

[cinder wind]

I've given up trying to get audio from my projects showing up in livestreams so now I just have a little powered speaker next to my microphone

yay reverb! thanks gamblor!

[open surge]

Tune in to The CircuitPython Show on Monday for a panel discussion with gamblor, todbot, cooper, and jepler to learn more about the new audio effects, too!

[vagrant flax]

Thanks everyone!

[viral sail]

Great projexts everyone. Thanks for sharing.

[nova totem]

I used virtual audio cable, and monitors within OBS

[open surge]

thanks for sharing everyone

[tulip canyon]

Thanks all

[nova totem]

My stretch goal is to have a complete keyboard/synth in CP

[cinder wind]

"chiclet" -- adafruit gum confirmed

[nova totem]

After LadyAda mentioned mario kart music to me during S&T that's now stuck in my head

[open girder]

ASK AN ENGINEER 4/2/2025 LIVE!
https://youtu.be/7h9UE3Yc0C0

10% off! Use code: chiclet on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://adafruit.com/new

[tulip canyon]

I enjoyed the interview. Kwabena has been on quite the media tour. Can't wait for the boards

[vagrant flax]

I think I accidentally yolo'd once

[sacred mortar]

👌

[cinder wind]

ooo trig functions in hardware!

[harsh pebble]

Whoohoo! #AskAnEngineer

Ooh! Does that have space for an Xbee?

Mmmm! Chiclets!

[dim knot]

Mini Chiclet Keyboard - USB Wired - Black https://www.adafruit.com/product/1736

USB Game Controller with SNES-like Layout https://www.adafruit.com/product/6285

[nova totem]

Growing up with the C64 / Apple I was super confused for other computers that the keyboard was only that

[slow spire]

Hi, all!

[dim knot]

Adafruit ANO Rotary Navigation Encoder Breakout - Pre-Soldered Encoder https://www.adafruit.com/product/6311

Adafruit ANO Rotary Navigation Encoder to I2C Stemma QT Adapter - Pre-Soldered Encoder https://www.adafruit.com/product/6310

Adafruit ESP32-S2 Reverse TFT Feather with wFL - STEMMA QT / Qwiic https://www.adafruit.com/product/6312

Assembled Adafruit FeatherWing OLED - 128x64 OLED Add-on - STEMMA QT / Qwiic https://www.adafruit.com/product/6313

Raspberry Pi Pico 2W with Header https://www.adafruit.com/product/6315

[echo canopy]

@open girder QUESTION

The SNES like controller , can you use it with the RP2040 USB host ?

[ivory kiln]

Question:
With everything going on, how difficult or good or bad of an idea do u think it would be to start a business that requires manufacturing a product that I'd need to manufacture custom circuit boards for that product? & is there any concerns you might suggest the new business to watch out for, and try & prevent or plan for?

[echo canopy]

Questions about what we want to see in an rp2350

How about one with a screen and an ANO Rotary Navigation Encoder kinda like a pyportal

[cinder wind]

rp2350 feather with built in I2S ADC/DAC (TLV320AIC3204?) with 3.5mm in & out!

[dire pond]

maybe a question for next time: any chance of the return of the adabox before tariffs ?

[echo canopy]

Has one other question—- with the Sparkle motion it has two pins level shifted up to 5v (output)

Can you make a generic ESP32 board with a few pins that can tolerate 5v ? I know there are voltage dividers

[upbeat coral]

Thanks for taking time for us.

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌒

[tulip canyon]

Thank you Adafruit

[vagrant flax]

thank you! goodnight!

[cinder wind]

gnite!

[slow spire]

Thanks, Adafruit!

[nova totem]

Night everyone

[inner spade]

👋

[open surge]

👋