general-chat

[delicate stream]

I want a new show with the camp of the original BSG

[verbal rapids]

Yeah, tbh I haven't finished all of Battlestar yet.

how campy was it? like Dr. Who levels of camp?

[delicate stream]

The original BSG is awesome, and what I saw of the new show is also awesome

Early Doctor Who

[verbal rapids]

ok, yeah

[delicate stream]

I love campy shows

[verbal rapids]

I can get behind that

[delicate stream]

I also love realistic shows

[verbal rapids]

I just finished Dark. I say that was a pretty realistic sci fi show.

[delicate stream]

Another BSG reboot might come in the next few years

[verbal rapids]

I wish they could go back in time and make more seasons of Firefly. I get why the fans back then were upset. I just got the same gut-punch feeling when 1899 was cancelled.

[delicate stream]

Yeah… Firefly was gone too soon

[verbal rapids]

I love the space cowboy motif.

[delicate stream]

Part of me wants them to get the original cast and like, CG deage them… maybe just to bridge to a time skip

[delicate stream]

Yes! Space + cowboys is great. I love The Mandalorian because it’s a spaghetti western with blasters

[verbal rapids]

and they need to ret-con what they did to Wash

in the movie

[delicate stream]

Yeah

[verbal rapids]

I get it. It was the last story they were going to be able to tell, so the stakes had to be high.

[delicate stream]

I NEED TO THINK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE I DO NOT WANT TO CRY AT WORK

[verbal rapids]

quick

happy cats

sunshine and rainbows

[delicate stream]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/959159051772645497/1039595279806115890/1667777997983840-1.gif

[verbal rapids]

omg, KMK already has what I was working on. I was making an arpeggio keyboard where a given sequence of buttons would output a key. No need to waste any more of my effort, I guess. http://kmkfw.io/docs/combos

[delicate stream]

Oop

[verbal rapids]

honestly, i'm kind of happy it's out there. I made it to try to type with just twelve keys and not having to use layers. My thing works, but it's really basic

[tardy badger]

Here ya go @delicate stream

White chocolate creameux filled strawberry cupcakes

With fresh strawberries on top

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/grabby-hands-give-me-i-want-you-me-want-me-want-food-gif-24520158

[tardy badger]

My wife is going to loooove them 🥰

It’s her birthday

[delicate stream]

Happy Keith day to her!

… autocorrect, what even was that

Happy birthday to her XD

[iron badge]

Happy Keith Day is now my new phrase

Will there ever be a bash.org-a-like for Discord?

I once did a bday cake for my daughter that said "Hippy Barfday" and she only noticed after blowing the candle out and got ready to cut it. My talents are wasted 🤣

[delicate stream]

Lmao

[umbral phoenix]

Hmm I wonder if that's for PSRAM on the unpopulated spot on the Metro M7. It already has 4MB of QSPI XIP Flash. https://www.adafruit.com/product/4950

[past mica]

hihi

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-there-hi-there-greetings-gif-9442662

[tardy badger]

https://tenor.com/view/general-kenobi-turn-around-star-wars-gif-15335963

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/omg-me-ewan-mc-gegor-smile-gif-13381765

[rapid geode]

send to meeeee

[spice moss]

https://tenor.com/view/grevious-crawl-scuttle-star-wars-gif-16176515

[dusty citrus]

I don't know how could I do this, basically I want to take from a website, all it's formula content with a brief description/title of the formula, to know what's about, and export it in a excel, or any usefull file, if I do scrap it off with selenium I should indicate everything point by point, which it does not work well, because the website content is not something prefixed, so I'd be better off doing it by hand

wolfram alpha is not viable because it is paywalled

[delicate stream]

If Wolfram Alpha can do what you want, but the paywall is the problem… just gotta clone Wolfram Alpha

[late fulcrum]

For scraping web pages, I generally use BeautifulSoup, but it's harder if the contents aren't tagged. If the formulæ are Java, you can reverse compile the class files (or just run them locally as-is). If they're ECMAscript, they're going to be moderately easy to parse, depending on how obfuscated they are. If you're looking for typeset formulæ (LaTeX, eqn, etc.) those are pretty easy to recognize and harvest.

[verbal rapids]

I know almost nothing about downloading pages. Earlier in life it was easy to just view a page's source. Now I know Curl is a good app for downloading pages. Does BeatifulSoup add more on top of that?

[wooden schooner]

Curl downloads the page. If the page is an XML file, then beautifulsoup is a library for programmatically manipulating XML objects and can be used to extract information from the downloaded page

But as madbodger said, there is no particular guarantee that the XML document will be structured in a way that puts the information of interest in an easily findable place

[verbal rapids]

Thank you for the explanation

[rapid geode]

O_o

[fierce prawn]

O_o

[blissful roost]

🧐

[fierce prawn]

Mechanical keyboard users out there
Would you prefer razer green?

[fiery glen]

Hi all, I want to drive some neopixels from a pi hat, with low latency. Any suggestions?

[gusty torrent]

Failed in buying my whole BOM at one shop by 2 things as boring as an LM317 and some 3.3mH inductors

So back to Akihabara tomorrow to look elsewhere

[iron badge]

All my recent keyboards builds have been Gateron Yellow Pros or Oetumu Silent Whites, always with Gateron stabs

[dusty citrus]

Yuk, how can I dispose of this safely? It doesn't look good, but for so on it did not explode or take flame

[gusty torrent]

Local electronics stores usually accept lipos for disposal, but not damaged cells. You might have to open the wallet to dispose of it legally.

[gusty torrent]

Today's BOM shopping trip loot but a few items short.

[gusty torrent]

Lifehack for bending through-hole components to 200 mil pitch:

And 300 mil:

[grizzled raptor]

no. Razer switches are regarded as the lowest quality cherrymx clones.

[delicate stream]

I'm not picky about switches, but Razer is like bottom of my list

Kailh is my favorite of the clones

Particularly Jade... mmm

[late fulcrum]

I usually end up with Gateron switches, which seem good-enough, since I've shifted to keyboards with individually replaceable switches. Previously, I would aim for top-quality switches but I still would tend to wear out one key and then be stuck with an unusable keyboard.

[delicate stream]

Gaterons are pretty good too

[delicate stream]

lo mien for breakfast

[late fulcrum]

Veggie vindaloo for breakfast here

[delicate stream]

vindaloo?

[late fulcrum]

Spicy Indian sauce. https://shoppingwithdave.com/tasty-bite-indian-vindaloo-review/ I think "aloo" refers to the Hindi word for "potato".

[delicate stream]

ahh

[late fulcrum]

I used to buy these at the Indian grocery when I was out that way, but they've started showing up in local grocery stores, which is convenient

[delicate stream]

I need to try Indian food

[gusty torrent]

I live in what is basically Tokyo's "little bombay"

1/3 of tenants in my building are Indian.

[delicate stream]

Lots of Indian food options around? I'm excited because there's been a recent influx of Asian immigrants in my area, and more Asian restaurants are popping up

[rapid geode]

i refuse to go to indian restaurants cause they laughed at me for finding butter chicken way too hot.

😛

[delicate stream]

I am afraid to try Indian food and die from spice... I nearly died at a Korean BBQ because one of my friends told me off for asking what everything was [trying to avoid spice, apparently she thought I was asking because of my peanut allergy, but I'd already confirmed with staff I was safe] and I tried something that I hoped to be sweet... but it was one of the spiciest things to have ever passed my lips and I couldn't breath XD

[gusty torrent]

You are correct. Aloo Matar is potato and peas for instance.

Going for some Korean on monday. Newish place locally - makes best yangnyeom chicken I ever had.

[delicate stream]

Asian food is some of my favorite food

[crystal ore]

It may not be universal, but I was pleasantly surprised by a Nepalese restaurant. It was Indian-style cuisine, but generally milder spices.

[late fulcrum]

Indian dishes are all over the map. Vindaloo is one of the hotter ones, I wouldn't suggest starting with that. But a nice saag or palak (similar, but saag is more greens, and palak is more specifically spinach), or daal (mildly spiced lentils or chickpeas), is healthful and flavorful. Then there are the spicier, but not intensely so masalas, tikkas, and kormas.

[delicate stream]

Hmm, I’ll have to see if there are any near me…

[gusty torrent]

I've had some insanely hot Nepali curries

[delicate stream]

Mmm, spinach…

[late fulcrum]

A couple of my favourite spinach dishes are chicken (murgh) saag, and palak paneer (Indian farmer cheese). There are daals with spinach too, which have a nice rich flavor.

[gusty torrent]

paneer is insanely easy to make your own.

[rapid geode]

brrrr

[late fulcrum]

I used to avoid palak paneer, as spinach is high in oxalates, and paneer has calcium, so I figured that since I'm prone to calcium oxalate kidney stones, it was a bad idea. But the Kidney Foundation did some research and discovered that if calcium containing and oxalate containing foods are eaten together, they combine in the gut and never make it to the bloodstream or kidneys, so I can safely enjoy it!

[rapid geode]

this is one fo the problems with foods being labelled bad or good. they are usually considered only on their own, and not how they combine with everything else you eat

for example. lobsters good. sweaters bad. but lobsters wearing sweaters YUM

[steady dove]

Now I want a pet lobster.

[rapid geode]

haha

i want a pet that can do drywall

[steady dove]

That’s what kids are for!

[rapid geode]

ha

hahaha

you cant get a kid to wash dishes, let alone lift drywall

[late fulcrum]

Hanging drywall or spackling it?

[rapid geode]

they are good at drawing on it after its finished

[delicate stream]

I did drywall when I was 12, but yeah, no way I would have done dishes

[steady dove]

Yeah. Trying to mine to clean right now. It’s not working well.

[delicate stream]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[late fulcrum]

Due to childhood issues, I have a distinct loathing for "old food", so I really don't like doing dishes, or even loading the dishwasher. But I'll hang drywall all day.

[steady dove]

Lol. I think it’s too late for that.

[rapid geode]

kids reset buttons are on the side of their head. you have to press real hard.

😛

[steady dove]

Still not too late to question my life choices though. 🙂

[rapid geode]

haha

my dad paid me to do garden work and i stilll wouldnt

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/cops-police-sirens-catching-crminals-what-you-gonna-do-gif-22472645

[late fulcrum]

So we divvy up chores, so we don't have to do the ones we dislike the most. So my sweetie loads the dishwasher, and I put everything away. Sweetie runs the vacuum, I scrub the toilet. And whenever something like this happens, I get to deal with it.

[rapid geode]

my brother claimed to be alergic to dish soap

[delicate stream]

This is why God invented rubber gloves

[late fulcrum]

I thought rubber gloves were invented to create a reason for glove molds, which are great for displaying jewelry.

[delicate stream]

Multi-purpose creation

[rapid geode]

ha. there was extra resin from a project and i poured it into a glove... and then it kicked and the glove melted

[late fulcrum]

I'm unfamiliar with this usage of the word "kicked", but I'm guessing from context that it's a reference to an accelerating exothermic reaction

[rapid geode]

polymerisation which releases heat

often a LOT of heat in thick sections

could use some today in the house haha

[delicate stream]

I’m thinking about going for a walk

[spice moss]

walk is cool

[delicate stream]

18F out… maybe I won’t sweat this time

[gusty torrent]

I generally prefer thai curries to indian most of the time.

[late fulcrum]

I'm going to go out and meet a friend for the Fire & Ice festival (good weather for an ice festival today)

I do enjoy a good Panang curry

[delicate stream]

I want to try a curry that’s about as spicy as Taco Bell mild sauce

[late fulcrum]

Panang varies with the chef's mood, but you can have it mild (I've been known to use spicy peanut sauce as salad dressing). But you might also enjoy a yellow curry, those are flavorful and can be made mild as well.

[gusty torrent]

I usually ask for my curries to be made kitchen-staff-level spicy

[late fulcrum]

Green curries are generally hotter, and red curries even more so. If you end up at an Ethiopian restaurant, you might prefer the milder "alecha" dishes to the hotter "wot" or "awaze" ones.

Yeah, I like to ask the chef to prepare it "as you would for your own grandmother". That tends to be an excellent and very spicy flavor.

[delicate stream]

One of the reasons I’ve never had Thai food is my peanut allergy… basically everything has peanuts or peanut sauce

[gusty torrent]

thai green curry should be peanut-safe

[delicate stream]

I’d have to try making it at home

Can’t go near Thai restaurants

[late fulcrum]

One local Thai reference offers "mild", "American hot", and "Thai hot". Not listed on the menu, but available if you ask for it is "Laos hot", which is the kitchen-staff-level spicy. I only ordered that once, when I had a cold I couldn't shake. I could see the kitchen staff watching and laughing at me as I ate it, beet red, tears streaming from my eyes, sweating like a pig. But when I left the restaurant, that cold was GONE.

[gusty torrent]

Just because of cross-contamination?

[late fulcrum]

Oh yeah, if you have a peanut allergy, you do not want panang or massamun curry.

[delicate stream]

Mhmm… a whiff can send me into an hour-long coughing fit and 🤮

[late fulcrum]

Bleah, like tobacco smoke does for me

[delicate stream]

Noted

[gusty torrent]

My oldest has both peanut and egg allergies but not extreme ones.

[delicate stream]

Tobacco smoke also sends me into coughing fits. Similar, but peanuts it’s far more intense…

[late fulcrum]

Most of my family has a peanut allergy (likely due to our incompetent family doctor), but luckily for me, I didn't get that allergy.

[delicate stream]

Lucky it’s not extreme. I have a very mild allergy to lemons and limes — makes my mouth itch and tingle if consumed, itchy on skin

I wish my peanut allergy were like that

[gusty torrent]

A homemade thai green curry is pretty easy - fry up curry paste, toss some chicken in, add water, eggplant, let simmer for 20 minutes, add a little lemongrass and coriander and basically done.

a couple drops of fish sauce can up the spiciness level

(don't ask me why that combination does so though)

[delicate stream]

Lol. Not sure where to get curry paste… there aren’t any Indian markets around here, and I don’t recall seeing an Indian section at any supermarkets

[late fulcrum]

This doctor believed penicillin was some sort of cure-all, so we'd get penicillin injections frequently. Penicillin injections in those days consisted of penicillin powder mixed with peanut oil. This has the dual effects of making the injections extremely painful (leading to my fear of needles that persists to this day), and tends to lead to peanut allergies (in most of my family).

Look for the "international aisle", many grocery stores have them.

[delicate stream]

They do have international aisles, but generally it’s Mexican and Asian stuff

I’ll have to check again…

[late fulcrum]

There will often be a few curry sauces mixed in, and UK stuff like "salad cream".

[gusty torrent]

I love the look of black PCBs. This DAC board gonna be super sexy.

[tardy badger]

Peanut butter shots, so much fun

Name derived for penicillin shots before they realized they could just keep freezing vials of it and inject it while it was cold

[late fulcrum]

To paraphrase Douglas Adams, this is a strange usage of the word "fun" that I wasn't previously aware of!

[tardy badger]

The name stuck though, we got the “peanut butter” shot in basic training and it felt like someone squeezed a tube of peanut butter into our right buttocks

[tardy badger]

My local Walmart has a bunch of Indian food products and spices because Utah has a fairly sizable Indian population

Which is surprising because people just assume it’s all Mormons out here 🙂

There’s a fairly large Asian/south Asian market in SLC that I want to go to

[delicate stream]

The selections definitely seem to reflect the area. Lots of Asian and Mexican folks here, lots of Asian and Mexican selections. In a kinda far area with a large Russian/Ukrainian population, there’s a lot of their respective foods in markets as well as dedicated Russian and Ukrainian markets (we have many Asian supermarkets here)

[tardy badger]

Yeah, that always seems to be the case

The Southeast US mostly has Mexican foods and scant Asian selections except in certain cities

[delicate stream]

Definitely makes sense to have your selection reflect the market

[dusty citrus]

about this battery, can I store it like under salt or stucco? that's the only powder like thing that I can think of that's not flamable, there's also water, but for what I m aware, litium can have bad reactions with water

[dusty citrus]

I do envy you, here markets don't follow such logics

[whole jacinth]

i wouldn't recommend salt. it's corrosive and hygroscopic (absorbs water from the atmosphere), and you don't want the lithium to get wet

[dusty citrus]

and stucco is hygroscopic too... hm dunno how can I keep it in place without worrying about it for an ignition or something while travelling with it?

[whole jacinth]

does your town/city have a household hazardous waste site?

[dusty citrus]

yes but it's distant, and they do not come to get stuff, so I should get there

[whole jacinth]

is the battery likely to have any charge?

[dusty citrus]

I don't think so, it's like 5/7 years that's been on the shelfes

[delicate stream]

Probably why it didn't explode/catch fire

[whole jacinth]

yeah if it's discharged, it'll be safer to store/transport than if it's fully charged

[dense mirage]

👋 does anybody have suggestions for how I could isolate a serial port

https://github.com/pepaslabs/6N137-TTL-Serial-Optoisolator

This seems like it would do the trick but OP says it's untested - Here's the schematic https://github.com/pepaslabs/6N137-TTL-Serial-Optoisolator/blob/master/releases/v1/6N137-TTL-Serial-Optoisolator schematic.pdf

Does this seem decent ?

[final plume]

Is there something like this that has green and red? https://www.adafruit.com/product/4778

[rain cradle]

the 3 color einks i've seen (not that ive seen a lot of them, tho) are black + white + {yellow, red}

if you are not working on a battery and don't care about holding the image there without power, you could use a TFT display, which are also cheaper
there are also 7-color eInks, named ACEP or something like that, but i think they are not (yet) supported on CP

[old beacon]

it is getting harder.. I am now learning comparison statement, math variables, comapring logics.

input block, caluclation block , output block, are all blocks modular?

like for example can I, input block + outputblock without the calculation block and or can i inputblock, cal block, out block, cal block, input block?

im beginging to think codes are modular blocks

are inside modular blocks*

[rain cradle]

i have no idea what you mean by "block", perhaps those are functions being called sequentially to input/compute/output? if so, those are of course modular, you can use/not use them as needed or wanted

a good piece of code is usually made of several small blocks, which are then used by some main code

[lusty fossil]

7 color are here ish

[rain cradle]

ish :p

thats why i added the "(yet)"

[shut orbit]

Hello, Does anyone know whether there a channel for Raspberry Pi help?

[rain cradle]

#help-with-linux-sbcs is the place

[shut orbit]

Thank you!

[frigid tiger]

Why is GPS disabled for high velocity objects? Is GPS really that important for ballistic missiles? Isn't dead reckoning + computer vision sufficient for a ballistic missile?

[tardy badger]

The answer to your question is likely classified

[ruby ingot]

Hello

[tardy badger]

But just some obvious things, you want your missile to be untraceable as possible. So I could imagine you wanting to reduce its electromagnetic signal as much as possible before hitting target

I don’t know the specifics of reasoning, nor do I want to. But those are just some layman’s observations

[frigid tiger]

Thanks

[verbal rapids]

The reason is GPS is good enough to make a pretty precise missile even if it isn't all that technologically advanced in other ways.

[grizzled raptor]

<s>what, do you think this is the War Thunder forums? Do you think we leak classified documents over here:</s>

[tardy badger]

It is honestly hilarious that’s it’s war thunder and not one of the more realistic war sim games

[frigid tiger]

Lol true 😂

[rapid geode]

leaks classified documents

[delicate stream]

is a classified document

[rapid geode]

youre classified as weird

😛

[delicate stream]

Indeed

Imagine being normal

[late fulcrum]

Occasionally, people will point out that I've said something odd, with an observation like "you know, a normal person wouldn't say something like that." No, I do not know that. I have no understanding of what a "normal" person might or might not do or say!

[delicate stream]

lol

[crystal ore]

Heh, a "normal people" predictive model is a good mental tool to cultivate. Like understanding what a car might or might not do when you are a nearby pedestrian, it's a self-defense skill. 😅

[delicate stream]

"normal people" are the average, which isn't actually a kind of person you'll likely ever find

[gusty torrent]

Done with all the axial components on the DAC but still missing a few bits before I can continue.

[late fulcrum]

I guess the "average person" would be half male and half female

[lusty fossil]

And have their atoms spread across the globe

[grizzled raptor]

that got philosophical real quick, lol

[dusty citrus]

When they said 'You use big words' to me I didn't have the presence of mind to remark that 'well .. so does the rest of my family' (so for us it was normal).

[delicate stream]

Intersex person

Rare persons indeed...

[rapid geode]

making things to fit the average person is a sure way for it to fit noone

[dusty citrus]

I've had to bend over to use any plumbing fixture my entire adult life. ;)
Except showers -- have to duck under those. ;)

[rapid geode]

tmi

[dusty citrus]

no it's not.

[delicate stream]

sinks

[rapid geode]

hehe

my grandmother was 4 foot 9. she needed a ladder for everything

hehe

[dusty citrus]

I still do that for small people in the grocery store. They ask right away. ;)

[rapid geode]

she was also about 4 ft around

[delicate stream]

I'm 6'1" and whack my head a lot

[dusty citrus]

;) yup .. back seat of a VW .. legs at 60 degrees just to fit. Maybe 70. ;)

[rapid geode]

vw was fine (ish), i forget the name of the car, but someone i know had one where you would be leaning over in the back.

and it wasnt a sports car where the seats arent intended to be used

my family has big height discrepencies. my cousing (girl) is 6'3, my other cousin is 4'11 ish

i have a friend that is 5'4 and her twin is 6'5

no idea how that happens

haha

[delicate stream]

Someone really liked their Wheaties

[rapid geode]

something. i think my grandmother was malnourished, but its hard to know. was like 100 years ago. her sister was 4'8

[gusty torrent]

My GF is 4'11

[delicate stream]

Compact

[tardy badger]

Just watched Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

I now have a new top two Marvel movies

[umbral phoenix]

ducking is a way of life for those of us >6'

[gusty torrent]

Got the last of the components I needed, had to do with a different type of 3.3 mH inductor, but it still should barely fit.

[gusty torrent]

Was thinking about watching it tonight

[blissful roost]

Absolutely fantastic film.

[gusty torrent]

Thankfully the substitute inductors physically fit.

[late fulcrum]

Through hole, how refreshing

[gusty torrent]

And complete

Everything below the lower row of pins on the pico is analog domain

PDM signal out of pico PIO into low pass filter and amp.

[late fulcrum]

Clipper/limiter too?

What are the little 3-pin headers at the end of the Pico for?

[gusty torrent]

Debug

schematic: https://interface.cqpub.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/pico_diydac_v2.0a_sch_20230106.pdf

[late fulcrum]

Thanks, I had looked for the schematic, but am slowed by the fact that I'm basically illiterate in Japanese. I had guessed the 'HC04 was being used as a pulse reshaper/reconstructor, and yes, the schematic makes that clear.

When I looked at it today, I looked at the inductors and thought "wow, those are big tantalums", then remembered your comment about finding substitute inductors.

[gusty torrent]

Its a much more refined designed over their v1.0:

The original BOM called for vertically mounted axials

So I was worried about finding something that would physically fit

[late fulcrum]

I'm not really a fan of those. You're right, the first design is basically straight through, more of a proof of concept.

[gusty torrent]

It also suffered from the lack of isolation between the digital and analog domains.

[tardy badger]

Easily one of my top two favorite marvel movies

[delicate stream]

It was so good, despite the fact they had to rush changes with the loss of Chadwick…

Both Black Panther movies are some of the best of the MCU

[tardy badger]

It’s very rare that the sequel is better than the original, but they did so good with Wakanda forever

It was such a beautiful tribute

The original black Panther is like my 4th favorite marvel movie

[delicate stream]

I can only imagine what they originally planned

[tardy badger]

Same

I teared up a little when they went through Shuri’s memories of T’Challa

Gone too soon

But yeah, Wakanda Forever was a thoroughly emotional movie and I love it

[delicate stream]

[delicate stream]

I wonder why some Adafruit packages are addressed from Adafruit Industries, but some are addressed from Limor...

[tardy badger]

Same shipping type?

[delicate stream]

I can't remember, maybe that's the difference

[tardy badger]

I think when I’ve ordered UPS it has a different sender listed than USPS

[astral pasture]

Hi everyone! I am making a science fair project that involves heating a metal bar and measuring the temperature. I know adafruit has thermal sensors but are there any contact thermometers? Thanks!

[tardy badger]

A lot of people use kapton tape and tape the thermistor

Kapton can handle high temperatures

[astral pasture]

So would I just use the standard sensor with kapton tape?

[tardy badger]

Assuming the temperature sensor can handle the heat you’re expecting to generate

Yeah

[astral pasture]

Thank you!

[delicate stream]

I got Sssssscorpio

[fierce prawn]

I now have two online shopping platform options which I have no idea to choose
First one I cannot pay from e-wallet I need to reload using my e-wallet into their own platform wallet but the items I want is cheap there

The second one I can directly pay with e-wallet but the items I want is more expensive

Can someone help me choose

[delicate stream]

Personally I'd rather do extra steps for cheaper stuff than pay more for less steps

[fierce prawn]

But for the wallet I need to do ekyc (electronic know your customer)
I already did it once for e-wallet and my identity card (in Malaysia we call it like that) is at my mom's place

So I guess high price is for me?

[delicate stream]

Are you not able to reload the wallet? I mean, if you can't, you can't

[fierce prawn]

You need to enable it first via scanning your face and your identity card

For the second option is directly connected to my e-wallet

[delicate stream]

If you can do the first option... I would do it, but that's up to you

[fierce prawn]

Why all happens to me
First I can't put a Neopixel onto a four pin RGB hole
Now the price is high

Malaysia stores are like that I think

[fierce prawn]

Just got a rm15 and rm1 discount voucher
I bought a seeed studio rp2040 and 50pcs of keyboard RGB
Keyboard RGB = rm27.61 (after discount rm18.50)
seeed studio rp204p = rm30.66 (after discord rm20.77)
The discount on them are rm15 and rm1
Then shipping is rm9.80 but I have a rm4.90 shipping voucher for one of the items so rm4.90 for shipping only
And then I have 83 coins in my account so minus rm0.83
So total rm45.34

Worth it?

Its about 10usd

[delicate stream]

Sounds like a good deal

[fierce prawn]

Not after a confusing amount of vouchers lol

[delicate stream]

Final cost is all that matters, lol

[fierce prawn]

Actually do adafruit offers shipping vouchers
I feel safer on adafruit but I can't due to high shipping fees

[delicate stream]

International shipping can really suck sometimes

[fierce prawn]

True

[delicate stream]

My personal policy is if I'm looking at one thing in multiple places, always go for the lowest end cost

[rapid geode]

unless you need it fast

[delicate stream]

Yeah, exceptions for deadlines

[fierce prawn]

Or have a Asian mom that hates ordering from multiple sites

[rapid geode]

has

i have the reverse. my mom will go to 6 grocery stores cause one is 4 cents cheaper than the other

forgetting that travelling costs $10

ha

[fierce prawn]

It's the same behavior as your mom offline
But online it's different

Weird right?

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/its-illogical-makes-no-sense-dumb-stupid-jon-taffer-gif-14708199

[fierce prawn]

True
That's why I can't understand her

[tardy badger]

LEDs go brrrr

[delicate stream]

Blink blonk

[tardy badger]

Blinky is always the most satisfying test

[delicate stream]

Hehe

[tardy badger]

I feel good, I just ordered 5 panels of 5 of the FPGA boards

production will probably start innnn april

[fierce prawn]

What is that yellow cable

[tardy badger]

USB cable

[fierce prawn]

Wait so there's two USB cable in the pic

[tardy badger]

Yes, but only one is connected the board

[fierce prawn]

Why this channel is highlighted but no message

[delicate stream]

Probably a spammer or troll who got blocked or something

[rapid geode]

or the censorbot ate the post

[tardy badger]

Or some combination of the two

[tardy badger]

3D rendering is fun

oof, that's small.. let me try again

let's see if this is bigger

I love it

so good

datasheet so far. first draft is always the hardest

[rapid geode]

O_o

[tardy badger]

what

i'm doing it in word because I don't want to relearn LaTeX

unless you're talking about the contents of.

in that case, it is what it s xD

I'm out of practice on technical writing 😛

[rapid geode]

no, im just curious about a feather fpga

is that a real thing?>

[tardy badger]

It is

[rapid geode]

oooh

[tardy badger]

I’ve been working on this for a while but the chip shortage has made it very hard to finalize the design and test

Since mid 2021

[tidal flare]

I got the email and am Big Hype ™️

Been wanting to play around with FPGAs for a while

[tardy badger]

😄

I thought that was you, I put your email in wrong the first time and it came back yelling at me lol

I am looking forward to getting all the parts and everything together 🙂

[tardy badger]

I'm looking forward to actually getting these out to people. just waiting on those FTDI chips. the downside of wanting a board that is usable with both Lattice tools and open source ones... urgh..

It'll be great, I'm sure. I've had a ton of fun with the prototypes so far

[late fulcrum]

I've had no luck with vendor FPGA tools, so I've joined the open source only crowd

[tardy badger]

IceCube2 has been pretty decent. though when I tried to open in yesterday it wasn't actually opening so idk what that's about.

downside is it's DOS only

[late fulcrum]

Yeah, I went MICROS~1 free many years ago and never looked back

[tardy badger]

understandable

Yosys recent had support in IceStorm for the ICE5LP4K which means that it can be developed on with OS tools in that way for generating bitstream

[delicate stream]

Microsloth

[late fulcrum]

I think the last DOS tool I used in that arena was PALASM, which gives some idea of how long ago that was (back in the 1900s)

[tardy badger]

lol

the late 1900s

[late fulcrum]

Happily, if Yosys supports it, then it's available in Fomu, apio, and IceStudio too 🙂

[tardy badger]

yeah, I haven't figured out getting IceStudio to load it but I imagine a lot of people are doing command line

and then the FT232H means you can load the SPI FLASH with the Adafruit ft232h flasher tool

It's the interesting thing with these Lattice FPGA is you either write a temporary bitstream to the FPGA directly, or program SPI flash and it loads indefinitely.

some lattice chips have built in flash though which is cool

[dusty citrus]

Dumbo question
With a esp or any other similar MCU, can I scan around for open wifis and then if they are open use them?

[tardy badger]

alrighty, so to replace my current income with boards I would need to sell 7000 FPGA boards lol..

that's making 25 a day, 280 days a year xD

team break!

[lusty fossil]

Intern time

[frigid tiger]

time to start a YouTube

[tardy badger]

time to find a rich uncle

the good news is, if I sold 7000 boards I could definitely buy a pick n place machine and assembly line to automate things

"automate"

I want to use that term loosely because it still needs supervison

so the steps in order are:

1. find a rich uncle
2. manufacture 7000 FPGA boards
3. sell 7000 FPGA boards
4. ???
5. PROFIT

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/late-night-seth-seth-meyers-boom-easy-gif-9198701

[tardy badger]

exactly, now who has a rich uncle xD

[delicate stream]

I have a debt free aunt

[tardy badger]

shouldn't be too bad, before I shut Oak Dev down last year due to the parts shortage I made ~$5500

I wasn't pricing things as well as I could have so I spent ~$6200

pro-tip: don't try to do things cheaper because bigger places can

basically the way I priced my FPGA boards is to cover about $15 of the labor cost of designing, manufacturing, testing, and packaging. On a good day, a panel will take me ~45 minutes to build and another hour to test, rework if necessary, and package.

each panel has 5 boards so $60 a panel, breaking down to close to $30/hr ($30/hr manufacturing, $30/hr testing) if I'm attempting to pay myself a decent wage.

this assumes everything goes perfectly which it rarely does

so it is probably closer to $20/hr

of course I can optimize this cost by building multiple panels up in a row instead of build, test, build, test, etc...

[night crescent]

WE ARE LIVE! Desk of Ladyada - iMX Metro Prepares to Launch! https://youtu.be/nc66tH8aMTM

[frigid tiger]

Once you really get going you should manufacture your own PCBs, and then get an injection molding setup and once your pay off those tools get a CNC to make your own molds, soon you'll be able to work towards building your own silicon fab

[tardy badger]

hahaha yeah

i'd love to have my own open source semiconductor fab

[dusty citrus]

I heard that Russia is hungry for chips.........

[tardy badger]

i've heard, but any us based chip fab regardless of open source is going to be heavily export controlled

[delicate stream]

Hope they have lots of potatoes

[dusty citrus]

Nah you just risk permajail

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/jail-right-to-jail-right-away-parks-and-recreation-parks-and-rec-gif-16177531

[tardy badger]

Hopefully if there's anyone in this discord from Turkiye, they are safe

massive 7.8 quake hit 😦

Near Nurdagi

[tardy badger]

6.7 aftershock

Geez…

[rapid geode]

Is 7000 a lot?

eep, earhtquake?

[tardy badger]

Depends on the board. 7000 of the 3.3V buck modules I make? No. 7000 FPGA, yes. That’s like.. so many parts 😵

Just over 60 components on the FPGA

So 420,000 components placed

Round up to 430,000 just to be safe

[late fulcrum]

Heh, there is a Potato Semiconductor, they make GHz speed TTL chips, but I think they're US based.

[tardy badger]

I would need to hand place 1,170 parts a day on average and.. ow my hand cramps thinking of that

[rapid geode]

hah

automation

ive seen plenty of surplus pick and place machine

i have no idea if they are useful

[tardy badger]

I’d just take $30k of the $230k after labor and parts and stuff buy a brand new line that pastes, places, and bakes with a conveyor

[rapid geode]

ah

but youd need to sell them first 🙂

[tardy badger]

Exactly

I’ve sold 3 preorders

So I’m.. 0.04% of the way there

[rapid geode]

hehe

[tardy badger]

Progress!

[rapid geode]

my income tax return said i was getitng $9000... and then i realised i entered the numbers wrong 😦

[tardy badger]

Im sure my wife would love losing one side of the garage to an electronics assembly line

[rapid geode]

booo

[tardy badger]

Whoops

I am slated to get.. $4200 after turbo tax takes their cut

[rapid geode]

thats not bad

[tardy badger]

Yay for having tax credits, I mean children

[rapid geode]

hahaha

[tardy badger]

I’d owe money more than likely if I didn’t have kids

I have a friend with one kid who makes 2/3 of what my family brings home and is owing taxes so it gives me a clear picture of where I’d be

[rapid geode]

the accountant is good at taking precisely the correct amount off each pay so that its usually $0

[tardy badger]

Oh good

American taxes suck, the government knows what you owe, you usually don’t and you have to kind of guess through tax filing software what you do or straight to jail

Anyway, back to the fpga stuff, I’ll be happy to sell 10-100 this year

100 would be $1500 towards my goal of eventually paying myself

Though I’ll likely recycle everything

I have to make additional ecosystem stuff to make the fpga more usable for a broad range of people

First accessory will be a feather wing with 5 buttons and two 7 segment displays.

Maybe a traffic light feather wing too

[rapid geode]

make a cnc control featherwing 🙂

[tardy badger]

Can you do CNC control with small fpga?

Well, is it practical is what I should ask. Compared to say using a microcontroller

[rapid geode]

you can do it from an atmega

soo, maybe?

[tardy badger]

If the components can fit on a feather wing I’ll give it a try

[rapid geode]

theres 2 main things with a cnc control. one is interpreting the g code and turning it into motion. the second is driving the motor (usually with pulses at 200+khz)

and then of course you need a UI

[tardy badger]

Ah yeah, you can pulse pins at over 30MHz

[rapid geode]

should not that this is whats in all 3d printers

printers are just cnc machines

[tardy badger]

You might be able to put a soft 8 bit CPU on it and load a C program to drive things

[rapid geode]

the original atmega ones were too limited

[tardy badger]

Maybe a very limited 16 bit micro if all your doing is processing g-code and PWM’ing pins

[rapid geode]

My cnc card has a...... trion fpga

but it uses a PC as the host. the only thing it does is pulse

(and other real time IO)

the g code interpreting is done on the pc

they have a version that works with the pi 4

[tardy badger]

Ah neat

[rapid geode]

my other cnc control is arm 9 based, with an fpga, but i have never looked inside

im not sure whats in a fancy siemens control

my very old cnc machine had an intel 8088

running some form of unix

on 96k of ram

hehehe

[tardy badger]

Back when cnc was simple

[rapid geode]

well no.

that machine was way more advanced than the one i have now

it had a camera to detect broken tools

probing

100s of IO for safety

gear shifting for the psindle

glass linear scales

and it was fast too

i was sotra shocked how little things have changed since then

fancy user interfaces, and much higher processing speeds for smoother 3d motion, and memory to hold big programs. that sabout all we get with new machines the old one doesnt have

(this old machine was 1987)

[tardy badger]

Ah okay

I’ve never worked with CNC other than a PCB mill I used when I was first learning PCB design

It was a lot of fun to use

[rapid geode]

they are all basically the same

in principle

[tardy badger]

I figured as much

I’ve wanted to make a motor control board, maybe a pick n place control board

But I need to focus on my current plans to get fpga out the door

By may because part shortage and I’m not keen on blowing the budget on LCSC and paying 4x the cost of a chip

[tardy badger]

Geez, central Türkiye is not getting spared… 7.8 quake, 6.7, 7.5, and 6.0 aftershocks

[tardy badger]

Hoping anyone here who is there is safe

[tardy badger]

Same thoughts this morning I see

West Seneca, NY woke up to a 3.8 quake

[tardy badger]

I’m remembering that to sell FPGA to overseas customers I will need an export control license

Good ole export controls regulation

[whole jacinth]

i don't miss doing export regulation stuff as part of my job

[frigid tiger]

export controls r so dumb, can you avoid them by setting up shop overseas

[tardy badger]

Export controls have their place and are valuable. But they are very tedious and complicated

[tardy badger]

My job doesn’t directly deal with it, but if we do anything like submit to company wide ideas call, our individual proposals have to be sanitized if it relates to any internal activity that is subject to export regulations

Lots of fun

[whole jacinth]

working on open-source cryptography before the regulations were relaxed was kind of exciting. especially with international collaborators

[tardy badger]

Sounds like it

[rapid geode]

I didnt feel nothing. im 70km away from the falls.

[tardy badger]

Lol

[delicate stream]

The apparently sudden amount of large earthquakes had me feeling ahhhh

[tardy badger]

Every time there’s what seems like a lot, the USGS shows historical data to show that it isn’t all that uncommon

[delicate stream]

Data good

[jaunty zephyr]

Are Banana Pi boards legitimate alternatives for Raspberry Pi? Context: The black thing on the camera adapter of My Raspberry Pi Zero 2W broke off and for some reason when I power it on via the 5V pin it shuts down after a few seconds.

[stray wind]

@tardy badger So I was beginning to think my plant had already bloomed, in which case, it is unlikely to do so again. So I kept putting off setting up the timelapse. Welp..... it's starting to bloom. Now I have to scramble to get the timelapse set up. 😂

[delicate stream]

Oop

[stray wind]

Right?

[delicate stream]

At least you didn’t like, go on vacation and come home to find you’d missed it entirely, lol

[stray wind]

Valid point.

I am finally going on vacation later this month. Might keep the timelapse going on the rest of them while I'm gone for that reason. Thanks though! I hadn't considered that, lol.

[delicate stream]

Hehe. Forever time lapse now!

[stray wind]

As long as I can figure out how to save the pictures to something other than the Pi, I can run it as long as I want, I'm sure.

Though I think the DoF on this camera with this lens is super small. So having it pointed at a sizeable group of things would mean that only a few would be in focus. I'll find out eventually!

[delicate stream]

Could get a desktop external HDD and save to that

[stray wind]

Hmm, good point. I feel like something running rsync and removing them locally could also work. But I do have an unused SSD sitting around.

[delicate stream]

SSD go Nyoom! So many options

[slim shard]

network storage is often where I go

[delicate stream]

To the server!

[slim shard]

I have one pi forwarding 140 gigs/day of video

[delicate stream]

Por que?

[rain cradle]

spanish, huh

[delicate stream]

Is that Spanish? I thought it was Portuguese

[rain cradle]

maybe both, but "por qué" is "why" in spanish

"because" is "porque" 🤣

[delicate stream]

Lol

[rain cradle]

definitely not friendly for people learning the language

[delicate stream]

Languages hard

[umbral phoenix]

that at least 13 Mbps constant upload, nice to have that kind of bandwidth

I can't even consider any kind of volume cloud storage due to bandwidth and other wan constraints

[rain cradle]

PS: i changed the ñ on my nickname by a n on this server just so it is easy to write if someone does it instead of using discord's auto-complete

[tardy badger]

Did you get it setup in time??

[stray wind]

No, has to wait until tonight. It's begun opening up and you can see the tiny flowers starting, but it's not far into the process. Hoping I can at least catch most of the process.

[tardy badger]

Fingers crossed 🤞

[sharp nexus]

Forgot to tell you, moving forward with tDCS device, what do you think? 🙂

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/lost-in-space-danger-robot-gif-11726580

[sharp nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/tumor-organoids-tissue-for-research-animal-liver-cells-gif-17481012

Sorry, thought that was a gif! 😄

We're making cynical trials at the moment 🙂

[delicate stream]

It is, apparently an ad, lol

[sharp nexus]

logically but ill give you one for free once it is out with the best energy and love you could figure! 🙂

[delicate stream]

I am a bad candidate for this technology

[sharp nexus]

Don't worry, trust me! 🙂

Have you heard about magnetic stimulation? Much safer

[delicate stream]

I'm highly sensitive to electrical and magnetic fields, so no go for me DX

[sharp nexus]

I get that, you're a naturally stimulated individual! 🙂

https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=126288&content=songs

[shadow siren]

Got this interesting kit from Aliexpress for about $25CAD
rp2040 breakout plus display, sound and other stuff.

[ebon dew]

That’s a good deal. Interesting it breaks out the USB 5V to header pins?

[shadow siren]

yes I did not spot that

[delicate stream]

Link?

[shadow siren]

for this kit?

[delicate stream]

yiss

[shadow siren]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004740731799.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.5.21ef1802LdkG4P

oh it is touch screen also

[delicate stream]

Niiiiice

[shadow siren]

they have the pin diagram on the store page so it tells what pins are connected to the pi for the screen to work

oh nice a wiki page
https://wiki.52pi.com/index.php?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000023.2.70464848sTYzzr&title=EP-0164

the screen uses the ili9341 chip

theres cp lib code for it

[delicate stream]

Nice

[shadow siren]

and a learn guide page on adafruit

https://docs.circuitpython.org/projects/ili9341/en/latest/index.html

sorry dyno

bad bot

save me from dyno bot

[delicate stream]

lol

Dyno loves to bite in the general chats

[shadow siren]

yep

but a google seach will get you the learn guide link

It looks like the display uses a spi interface to work it

[delicate stream]

Guessing it comes fully assembled?

[wooden schooner]

Oh wow, is there a place I can read about this?

[shadow siren]

that it does need to put the standoffs on it if you want it raised from the desk

[wooden schooner]

Oh is it just that you have metal in you from surgery

[delicate stream]

I'm sure there are studies somewhere about it, but it's not a super common thing

[shadow siren]

I found the nuts suppled were incorrect, like imperial nuts but metric threads on the standoffs, I replace them with sone nylon standoffs

[delicate stream]

Darn, can't just throw on custom headers, lol

[wooden schooner]

Yeah wow, I find that very interesting

[delicate stream]

Thankfully I'm not the most sensitive -- some people have to move to the middle of nowhere to avoid any EM because being around power lines and stuff hurts them

[wooden schooner]

Oh wow that's rough

[delicate stream]

yeah

[wooden schooner]

Do you know what part of the body or whatever is affected by the EM?

[delicate stream]

Brain/nervous system

[wooden schooner]

Ah should have thought of that lol

[late fulcrum]

RIP this special edition white soldermask Arduino Duemilanove

[stray wind]

@delicate stream I think this will work? 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🤞🏻

[delicate stream]

Ohh, pretty!

[tardy badger]

I think so! 🙂

it looks good so far

[stray wind]

It's pinker than that IRL, but this took hours to get to. So I'm kinda at the point where either I post-process all of them (I have no idea how to batch process), or deal with it.

Thanks!

[delicate stream]

I think you can use a utility to apply a color filter as a batch

[stray wind]

Messing with the aperture more would get it pinker, but the aperture ring is part of the focus rings, so you can't change aperture without messing up the focus. There's a lock on the aperture ring, so at least that stays once set.

And focusing this thing.... oof.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's options. I'll dig into it afterwards unless I'm simply happy with how it turns out as-is.

[delicate stream]

Personally I like slightly punched up colors

[stray wind]

This is with a slight hue adjustment, and a saturation increase.

Little overboard from the actual thing, but still.

[fiery quarry]

Bit of elbow grease will clean that right up eh 🤣

[late fulcrum]

I may try powering it up, but I'm guessing that USB-serial chip is fried

[tardy badger]

what part died on it?

[fiery quarry]

ICSP header would be more interesting

[tardy badger]

almost looks like the caps next to it is what went but hard to say with all the soot

[dusk raft]

If something came with a 128x64 0.96in oled and wanted a larger display would I run into any major issues?

[delicate stream]

If it's the same control chip and same resolution, should be able to just swap them

[dusk raft]

Cool I'll look around

[delicate stream]

Did someone have a Scorpio logic analyzer going yet?

[tardy badger]

"not I" said the fly

mostly because I don't have a scorpio

lol

[delicate stream]

lol

[tardy badger]

jinx

you owe me a scorpio

xD

[delicate stream]

FRICK

I ONLY HAVE 2

[dusk raft]

Xbox Scorpio?

[tardy badger]

I remember jinx growing up.. but in the show Bluey, they had where if you said jinx someone could say something and you had 10 seconds to catch them or you wouldn't be able to talk ever again

I forget what the word was.. but anyway.

[delicate stream]

lol

[tardy badger]

probably should finish watching my lectures for school

[delicate stream]

Pshhh, responsibility...

[umbral phoenix]

check the YT and notes for today's CircuitPython meeting, tannewt seems to be working on something

[delicate stream]

Where's the notes? I know he mentioned it as a project, wasn't sure if he'd started anything or it was just idea stage

[umbral phoenix]

check the pinned messages in the #circuitpython-dev channel, you may have to go find the github repo for the past meetings

[delicate stream]

Dankie

[umbral phoenix]

Silly good

[delicate stream]

Guessing since the notes are mostly blank they haven't been completed yet?

[umbral phoenix]

that's next week. try: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-circuitpython-weekly-meeting

you can get the YT timestamp from the notes doc

[delicate stream]

oh XD I need to learn to read

[umbral phoenix]

40:22

I am just an AI, with pointers to various sources of documentation 😉

I have no real knowledge

[delicate stream]

[frigid tiger]

What if you made a mechanical display using pixels made of physical pigments

[gusty torrent]

It sounds great!

Zero hum or buzz from PC interference.

[delicate stream]

Now if you want to do a revision, you can shrink it by putting an RP2040 right on the board :0

[gusty torrent]

I'd also go as much surface-mount as possible

Don't think that Op Amp is available in SMT version tho

And of course would make it USB-C instead

I think the main things that would have to remain through-hole would be the DC-DC converter and the Op Amp

And possibly the 3.5mm jack

[blissful roost]

I believe the technical term is "borked"..

[gusty torrent]

That looks very swole

[blissful roost]

Rather.

[gusty torrent]

I wish I could find my box of nylon standoffs

Its gone missing

[blissful roost]

I'm sure there's an Arch Dev around somewhere, with some spare nylons...

[delicate stream]

Yiss, dis borked

[late fulcrum]

Those exist, they're known as "flip dot displays" https://damow.net/assets/images/2018/06/flipdot-arrived.jpg

[delicate stream]

Best displays

[tardy badger]

Oh I love flip dot displays

Mesmerizing

I kind of wish Adafruit carried some

[frigid tiger]

ty for the information, this is a revelation

[delicate stream]

I need to make one

[delicate stream]

I wonder if you could connect the outputs of joule thieves in series for higher voltage…

… I wonder if a joule thief could power a teeny tiny Tesla coil

[tardy badger]

https://tenor.com/view/mkbhd-mini-tesla-mkbhd-tesla-pc-mkbhd-mini-tesla-tesla-pc-gif-17953900

[delicate stream]

Lmao

[tardy badger]

Not the same Tesla but same idea

[delicate stream]

Sorta XD

[tardy badger]

Imagine powering that little car with joule thieves

😂

[delicate stream]

THE POWAH

That would be so cool

A joule thief and AA fit into an 18650 casing; then run that in an 18S6P config for a tiny 36v motor

[tardy badger]

Hahahaha

[delicate stream]

New life goal

What if you charged a Tesla with only joule thieves

[tardy badger]

“Send me your dead batteries, I need to charge my Tesla”

[delicate stream]

Exactly XD

Need to get a Tesla for this

I wonder if MKBHD would do a collab

[tardy badger]

What would be even cooler is Mark Rober doing a collab

[delicate stream]

I have heard that name but don’t know who that is

[tardy badger]

😮

[delicate stream]

I’m guessing he’s sortof a big deal

[tardy badger]

https://youtu.be/xoxhDk-hwuo

[delicate stream]

Ohhhhhh

That guy

[tardy badger]

Yeah

[delicate stream]

That’s all I know him as, glitter bomb package guy XD

[tardy badger]

Lol

He does all sorts of cool stuff

[delicate stream]

I should watch his videos

[tardy badger]

Like world record elephant toothpaste

[delicate stream]

What XD

[tardy badger]

They made a humongous earlmyer flask and did the elephant toothpaste experiment

https://youtu.be/e09xig209cQ

[delicate stream]

Lmao

That’s my kind of crazy

[tardy badger]

He’s insanely awesome

I aspire to this level of engineering

For now smöl electronics

[delicate stream]

Soon, we take over the world

Imagine if Adafruit became a country

[tardy badger]

I kind of want to make a mini server rack with PCBs with a little front panel option for like OLEDs or TFTs, Raspberry Pi, or other SBCs

I’ve done the 3D Printed stuff which is fun and fine, but I feel like PCB would be more rigid/stable

[delicate stream]

Do it!

[grizzled raptor]

i think the squirrel olympics series have been pretty good as well. But anything from Mark Rober is pretty awesome.

[delicate stream]

Squirrel Olympics? XD

[grizzled raptor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg5wznn3IBE

its part 3 of 3. the first 2 are just the squirrel maze. He was tired of t he squirrels stealing the bird food. The squirrels outsmarted him. He decided to make it a challenge for the squirrels.

well, just 2 different squirrel mazes. and the final one thats the olympics

[delicate stream]

Lol

[tardy badger]

Ah yeah, those were good ones for sure

[dusty citrus]

Sam Harris had a recent podcast with a guest who mentioned animal intelligence explicitly (in conjunction with long-term societal goals for animal welfare).
Martha Naussbaum iirc.

Sam kept trying to get her to admit the difference between tragedy X and Y where one is 'greater' than the other. She really wasn't having any of it. It was fun.

#309 - Vulnerability, Politics and ..
A Conversation with Martha C. Nussbaum

[tardy badger]

I was just thinking today about how it’s be a long time since we had a Collin’s Lab video which leads me to wondering what happened to Collin 🤔

Wow, something is wrong with the YouTube posted date.. it’s saying the Collins Lab videos were posted 5-8 years ago

Maybe there was ones posted that long ago 🤔

[delicate stream]

Has he done anything recently? I thought they were all 5+ years old

[tardy badger]

He had some videos from a year ago called “Collin’s Lab Notes”

[delicate stream]

I thought those were just edited shorts of previous content

[tardy badger]

But they stopped happening all of a sudden

They were new content I thought

Or that’s the impression the Collin gave last year

[delicate stream]

Hmm

[tardy badger]

I wonder if Kattni or any of the other Adafolks know why they stopped

[delicate stream]

Question for Ask an Engineer?

[tardy badger]

Maybe

Perhaps the answer to it is not one we’re ready for

[delicate stream]

I’d assume Limor would know at the very least. But she may not be able to say

[tardy badger]

I’d hate to think it was something catastrophic

[delicate stream]

Yeah, I hope he’s ok no matter what

[tardy badger]

Same

I enjoyed his content

[delicate stream]

Imagine if we got Mommy Mondays where LadyAda does hacker content for babies and kids

[tardy badger]

Ohh interesting idea

“Teach your baby to hack the pentagon in 6 weeks”

😬

[delicate stream]

Mommy MOSFET teaches her electronic children about the world they inhabit. This must, obviously, be puppets.

[tardy badger]

Mommy MOSFET watches her baby electrons become their own electronics components

555s, mosfets, voltage regulators, and more!

[delicate stream]

They learn about friendship and what they can do with each other’s help, as a community!

[tardy badger]

In the process learning the basics of how semiconductors are made, how they get into our products/projects, and how they work together like you mentioned

Call the overarching series: “Mommy MOSFET: Electrons to Electronics”

[delicate stream]

Hehehe

[tardy badger]

Or something like that

Them: “read the docs!”
Me staring at the planks of wood on the docks: “I’m not seeing any words to read..”

This and other bad jokes brought to you by Skerr

[delicate stream]

XD

I vote you to be a writer for this show

[tardy badger]

lol, a story teller I am not 💀

[delicate stream]

Someone comes up with the stories, you come up with bad jokes XD

[tardy badger]

I thought that was Wirehead’s job

He is a Master Punner after all

[delicate stream]

Lol

[tardy badger]

Unless he pun’ts the opportunity

Could you imagine Adafruit paying someone just to write jokes

[fair summit]

Collin is fine. Check his linkedin

[delicate stream]

Fine is good, I like fine

[tardy badger]

Indeeders

[deft mason]

Where can i sign-up for the weekly emails for things like 3d printing, wearables, etc? I used to get those emails but they've stopped for some reason (or maybe there haven't been any recently?).

[tardy badger]

Adafruit daily?

https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

[deft mason]

Yes, thank you!

[wanton thistle]

Mommy Mondays 🤔 😊 🤭

Im putting myself in jail for this one. No comment. lol.

[delicate stream]

Does someone need to get bonked

[tardy badger]

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-mega-bonk-bonk-dog-bonkers-bonk-anime-gif-24565990

Lol

[signal pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/cheems-bonk-doge-celestev69-gif-24399197

[tardy badger]

I think what I dislike the most about only chat is when they show someone typing and then it stops, starts again, stops, starts again, etc.. because it takes forever to type in mobile. It’s just so anxiety inducing sometimes lol..

[honest jolt]

When you ask a question and (multiple) people start to type but never respond 🫠

[tardy badger]

Oh yeah, I probably do that often

I’ll start typing thinking I know the answer, then a bunch of people I know who actually probably know the answer start typing and then I’ll just stop typing and delete what I started typing

[delicate stream]

Especially when someone sends a "we need to talk" message without saying why, and you're waiting and they blink in and out...

[dusty citrus]

I know someone who says they tap on the decimal point key and then backspace just to be a noodg. ;)

[tardy badger]

Every time Kattni puts me in a thread 😂

[delicate stream]

I THOUGHT I WAS IN TROUBLE

"Oh God what did I doooo AM I GETTING BANNED"

[tardy badger]

I can’t help it, bad relationships have ruined me for even thinking of something positive

[umbral phoenix]

I enjoy dropping chat no-nos to the youngers to inspire cringe and irony... like full punctuation and stuff like "call me" or ending a message with an ellipsis 😄

[tardy badger]

She occasionally is like “hey thanks for handing this the right way”

[umbral phoenix]

i do this all the time

[tardy badger]

But my anxiety is always like “you crossed a line”

[delicate stream]

Sometimes I type out a lengthy answer, realize I'm not sure, erase it, and assume someone who knows better will reply XD

[dusty citrus]

When I'm doing a lot of keyboard work before pressing the ENTER key (here in Discord) I'll bother to move the main window off the bottom of the screen, enough to totally hide the 'so and so is typing..' message(s).

If I went on too long (taking too many minutes to compose the message) I'll also bother to copy it, cut it and paste it into a text editor, then catch up (by reading the channel) before I post it. ;)

[spice moss]

https://tenor.com/view/ldr-sensor-jeem2-electronics-electronic-gif-23572879

[honest jolt]

Sometimes I miss the shift key while I press the enter key, so I accidentally post a half-composed message so I just pull up NP++ and start typing away. Or if I need to edit some code, it's easier to do it a dedicated text editor.

[wanton thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/jail-right-to-jail-right-away-parks-and-recreation-parks-and-rec-gif-16177531

You undercook Fish. Jail

[ebon dew]

I'm on a tablet and the reply is going to take too long I don't even bother. Keyboards are far more efficient.

[wanton thistle]

Overcook fish, Jail.

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/panic-anime-shookt-shocked-gif-10583115

[wanton thistle]

Charge too much. Jail

We have the best fish because of jail.

Not enough Resistance? Jail.

Too much Resistance. Also Jail.

[ebon dew]

Yeah if Kattni shows up and it says she's actively typing I'm like oh no what did I do.

[wanton thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/eric-andre-let-me-out-gif-18252480

[ebon dew]

Then she posts about plants and I'm like whew 😅

[wanton thistle]

Maybe shes poison ivy irl.

[ebon dew]

doubtful

[delicate stream]

Poison Ivy before the crazy and the evil

[steady dove]

@late fulcrum I picked up "50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)" today. lol. Thanks for the tip 😉

[rapid geode]

1: eat ghost peppers

err, maybe not

[delicate stream]

I would die

[tardy badger]

How do you know you’re not already dead?

That’s honestly one of the most confounding questions ever for me. How do we know what alive is and that we’re not already dead reliving an infinite moment

[ebon dew]

Well you can stare at a clock and have it be accurate instead of memory fragments.

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-scream-scary-memes-gif-19596874

I nearly made a joke but I don’t want to get in trouble

[tardy badger]

Except if you stare at a clock right before it ticks the next second, that initial observed second is longer than the follow on. Such a weird phenomenon

It’s this weird observation paradox. You know the seconds are ticking, but when you initially observe it, the first tick is slightly slower. Some time dilation stuff

[delicate stream]

Sounds like your temporal flux compensator is failing

[tardy badger]

Probably

Anyway, despite our best knowledge, we have no true way of knowing if we are actually living the moment or living some well constructed near death reality

But then makes you wonder.. does your dying conscious eventually also reach the same point infinitely? Lol

[delicate stream]

Yup existential crisis is good for bed time

[ebon dew]

https://tenor.com/view/morfeo-matrix-the-matrix-real-the-construct-gif-21089246

[tardy badger]

Deja vu is an interesting thing

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/chika-anime-cute-screams-gif-15192149

[tardy badger]

I like to think it’s two nearly parallel realities merging and your brain trying to make sense of the in-continuity

[delicate stream]

Or you had a memory of the future that you’re actually living

Usually it’s that one

[tardy badger]

Something that I read that made me think was that near parallel realities wouldnt necessarily move at the same rate in time which would explain why you felt like you already experienced it

Incredibly mind boggling

[delicate stream]

Everything ever already happened, nothing has ever happened; everything ever is going to happen, nothing is ever going to happen

The future is over and the past is yet to come

[tardy badger]

Infinite realities where you might or might not exist

One thing I appreciate about Neil DeBuck Weasel is that he isn’t afraid to be out there saying, the science doesn’t tell us no on the multiverse

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/parody/images/f/f6/Neil_deBuck_Weasel_in_Ice_Age_Collision_Course.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200413170343

Lol

Most underrated part of Ice Age Collision Course

[delicate stream]

There’s a list of things science hasn’t told us yet — is there or is there not a multiverse? Does God exist? Is that squeeking I hear a mouse or my imagination?

[delicate stream]

There’s another Ice Age???

Ok, I really need sleep… nini

[tardy badger]

Lol night

[rapid geode]

arent there like 6 or 7 ice age movies now?

they need top stop haha

[tardy badger]

Yea, but Blue Sky Studios was shut down by Disney so we shouldn’t have to worry

[rapid geode]

keep dreaming

[tardy badger]

We are getting a Aardman Studios Star Wars show

Some are hoping for claymation

I’m anticipating them making Wallace and Gromit Star Wars canon

[rapid geode]

"While promoting The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, the Disney+ PR page revealed that another Ice Age film is in development"

gromit vs vader\

hehe

[tardy badger]

In other news I’m testing how well my refrigerator cools things down

My wife didn’t turn the crockpot off or pull the insert out to cool some before going to bed so now we will see if I wake up to a frosted over fridge in the morning

Had to save the ham for left overs

I made sure to put some towels and hot pads down so I didn’t shatter the glass. Or I hope it doesn’t anyway

Guess we’ll see what my wife finds when she’s up with that baby tonight

[fierce prawn]

Should I buy a holy panda switch

[static flare]

1? If you have a use for one and think it would be good, then go for it. If you need more, then buy more than one

[solar kindle]

Nah. It's just your brain trying to fill a plot hole with a clumsy retcon. 🤣

[tardy badger]

The good news is I doubt technology will be good enough to know for sure

So we can have nice fantasies

[solar kindle]

BTW, I once wrote a story about someone who gradually drifts between timelines. Initially inconvenient (e.g. misplacing keys, showing up at the wrong restaurant for a lunch date) but eventually spins out of control as the timeline changes become more pronounced.

I do a lot of stories about alternate timelines. 🤷

[tardy badger]

Oh neat

I actually had a book idea about someone trying to save their universe after they realized that a parallel yet slightly out of sync universe was on a collision course. Ultimately realizing there was no stopping it, just going from place to place as they collided trying to stop the chaos that ensued.

[solar kindle]

Sounds like a great idea. Do you plan on writing it at some point?

[tardy badger]

Maybe, I might have my wife ghost write it since I’m not an great writer in that regard

[solar kindle]

I recommend skimming through "Save the Cat! Writes a Novel". It helped me a lot with plotting and pacing when I wrote "A Matter of Scale". https://www.jessicabrody.com/books/non-fiction/save-cat-writes-novel/about/

[tardy badger]

I’ll add it to the pile

I’m famously good at over stacking my plate lol

[delicate stream]

Hey, stop stealing my life! I’ve drifted from a timeline where my uncle was a huge Doctor Who fan to one where he doesn’t know anything about it at all and other smol differences

[solar kindle]

That's kind of where the idea came from. I'm always misplacing things that I know I put somewhere, but they turn up in a completely different location. The first line of "Adrift" is:

Hannah reached for her keys on the kitchen table, and grabbed thin air. “Dammit! They were right here a second ago!”

I've been there so many times.

[tardy badger]

My life, all the time

Going to grab for tweezers I JUST PUT DOWN… lol

[delicate stream]

oops, now I’m in the timeline where bananas don’t exist

And then the SCP foundation is after you

[delicate stream]

Multiply by 100x to include projects and movies yet to be started

[solar kindle]

I don't have one of those, but I do have one where the protagonist is stuck between a relatively ordinary timeline and one where she has a sister and magic exists. In both worlds, her family thinks she's delusional. So, that's fun.

[delicate stream]

Lol

[static flare]

I can't wait to get new Dexcom G6 transmitters, I want to pull one apart

[tardy badger]

In other news, I submitted my FPGA feather to CrowdSupply

[static flare]

I love pulling things apart tbh. It's why my mum knew I'd be really into electronics and engineering and such

[delicate stream]

Hehehehe

[static flare]

I was banned from being near screwdrivers until I was 15

Cause when I was 6 I took apart a DVD player

[delicate stream]

Oof… I feel old, DVD players didn’t exist when I was 6

[tardy badger]

Same lol

VHS anyone?

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-old-sophie-howl-scared-gif-12316451

[tardy badger]

Lol

[thick wind]

I never tried to take apart a VHS…

[umbral phoenix]

Laserdiscs though, those were great for a short time

[thick wind]

Wait, I did disassemble that one cassette that one time.

[tardy badger]

Same, I just used them to watch the Little Rascals 25th anniversary tape so many times it stopped working

[delicate stream]

Laserdisc is one of my favorite formats

[thick wind]

Oh, they came out in 1996 huh

[tardy badger]

Fifth grade science teacher has bill nye on laserdisc

[thick wind]

Earlier than I remember

[delicate stream]

My parents had to keep 2 copies of Star Trek IV on hand so me and my brother could watch it again back to back, and they’d rewind one while we watched the other… we wore out 3 copies, lol

[umbral phoenix]

my laserdisc player broke about the time they were going out, and I managed to sell all of them, except kept the Star Wars boxed set and a couple of others

[thick wind]

I thought everything before 2000 was VCD…

[tardy badger]

It’s also mind boggling that the little rascals actors are all in their 60s now

[umbral phoenix]

little rascals... from the 1930s??

[tardy badger]

No, it was redone in like the early 70s

[delicate stream]

Wait, it was?

[umbral phoenix]

huh did not know that

[tardy badger]

I had the 25th anniversary vhs

[umbral phoenix]

there was a 1994 movie

[tardy badger]

Wait

There’s so many variations

They even did one on 2014 🤔

[umbral phoenix]

and an '80s cartoon

[static flare]

Oh we had a VHS player until I was about 9

[delicate stream]

And the 1953 movie

[static flare]

I think mum still has heaps of VHS tapes in the garage

[umbral phoenix]

I still have all my cassettes, VHS, etc

and working players

[delicate stream]

What if Hollywood decided to just not have any movies come out at all for a particular year, and no written records were made about this by anyone, just to have a collective prank pulled on the future

[umbral phoenix]

in an alternate timeline where greed is abolished

[delicate stream]

In that timeline everyone can make Hollywood grade movies at home and death is a long lost nightmare

[solar kindle]

VHS didn't even exist when I was 6.

[tardy badger]

Lol

You can’t help the timeline you were born in

[static flare]

My mum still has a bunch of cassettes too that I'm probably going to get eventually

[urban arrow]

Just wanted to say that my 2 favorite words used to be "Let's eat". Well, now, after getting into CircuitPython (after years of Arduino), and lots of new LadyAda stuff, after I spend laborious time soldering and hooking up the wiring to various boards and things, then the CP programming (w/ plenty help from Learn guides), run the program, and then my 2 favorite words (which I normally shout): "IT'S WORKING". Thanks for listening.

[azure grove]

Hi! I'm new here! My name is Kate and I'm a huge Circuit Playground fan... (Also I'm looking for some ideas what to do with my meowbit :3)

[tardy badger]

Welcome! I’m not familiar with the meowbit but it sounds like a neat board. We’re all looking forward to whatever you do with it and of course here to help however we can 🙂

[azure grove]

That's my meowbit! It's something like py badge, but in form of a cat😸 it even has cat ears and whiskers!

The whiskers aren't very visible...

[tardy badger]

Oh wow! Incredible:)

There’s a weekly show and tell wednesdays (today) at 7:30pm eastern time

You should definitely try to jump on and share

A link is shared in #live-broadcast-chat right before the show starts. There’s lots of cat lovers in this community so I’m sure a lot of people will love it 🙂

[azure grove]

I'm from Czech Republic (UTC+1)... What time is it in UTC?

[tardy badger]

Eastern time is UTC-5

So early morning in Czech Republic 😅

[azure grove]

That's 1:30 in the night! No way I could get up...

[tardy badger]

It’s okay, we have a #show-and-tell channel as well 🙂

[azure grove]

oh! you have a cubesat channel too? I've always wanted my own cubesat... I tried to do one using microbit as the main board, but it wasn't enough... I mean, I built a programmed Altair in 3 days, and it could send some information, but only for a short distance, and i also had to turn it on by hand... I want to remake Altair completely so it would act more like actual cubesat, and would like some advice...

(I never tried other platforms other than microbit, but want to try working with arduino)

[tardy badger]

The great news is there’s lots of help to be found here for Arduino

[ebon dew]

From microbit to cubesat. Ambitious. If you hang out here long enough you'll learn enough to tackle almost any electronic project.

[delicate stream]

Pretty much all the things!

[rapid geode]

i want a satelite. to spy on the aliens.

[delicate stream]

Oi, don’t spy on me!

[winter perch]

Hey team! I was lucky/unlucky to get an RPi3. The trouble is, I would love to have the RPi4 for the upcoming build. And now my RPi4 order got canceled. Is the "1 per customer" limit have some sort of date attached to it? One per week, per month or is it lifetime limit?

[delicate stream]

I would expect a time limit of some sort, but not sure what that time might be — I’d email support, they should know the answer to that question

[winter perch]

let me try

[tardy badger]

This is the reason I’m holding off on getting a Pi because I really want a compute module 4

[static flare]

the regular one or the blade?

[tardy badger]

Just the regular module

I’ve been wanting to make my own carrier board for fun

[static flare]

That's fair!

[tardy badger]

Maybe I have to buy a blade just to get the module 🤔

[delicate stream]

Wait, blade? Did they make a SO-DIMM compute module 4?

[tardy badger]

No, there’s a server blade thing made to use the CM4, I think some of them ship with a CM4

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/uptimelab/compute-blade

[delicate stream]

Ohhhh, that’s cool

[static flare]

Yep! The CM4S

[delicate stream]

WAIT BOTH EXIST

[static flare]

oh, no, i meant the CM4S

they introduced it last year for commercial customers iirc

[delicate stream]

Actually I guess e SO-DIMM is less optimal unless you’re swapping an existing compute module project

[static flare]

I guess the big pull is that they have a lot of the chips for the 4S compared to the 3

Since it uses the same connector in the same layout as the CM3, it's not got a lot of the breakout features of the CM4

Like optional Wifi/Bluetooth, multiple HDMI ports, PCIe, etc

[delicate stream]

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking — so for existing CM3 products you can get a boost, but you really want the mezzanine version for the new one with new projects

[static flare]

it just kinda extends the life of companies that are built on the CM3, giving the upgrade in processor with the familiar form factor that doesn't mean respinning