general-chat

[bronze cosmos]

Yeah I'd probably print a lot of display things like Pokemon models, especially if I end up getting a multicolor printer

Occasional useful thing as I need it, probably a few fidget toys and such occasionally

I guess, it's not that there's nothing I want to print, it's that there's nothing useful/functional

[quaint flint]

Not everything needs to be useful or functional, before I got mine i had zero 3d modelling experience but after getting it i learned how to use fusion360 to design things and that ended up being a lot of fun (so much so that I realised its something i would have liked to pursue at university)

[bronze cosmos]

Oh nice!
Learning 3d modeling is somewhere on my todo list

[quaint flint]

im terrible at like... modelling things artistically but i have had a bunch of fun doing things for projects

they feel like different skillsets haha

[bronze cosmos]

Yeahhhh

[sturdy dawn]

I did this right one time lol. Just tried it again and I got my raspberry stuck in a boot loop

I forgot to do the second part

Took out the SD card and mounted it on the desktop to try and fix the config.txt file but now it's missing

So now I'm waiting for a fresh install of rpi OS

Believe The blacklist was the only thing I had to do last time

I'm not sure if it was the initramfs or not blacklisting that caused it but I will persevere

You really want the hardware pulses to get a clean image

Installed one repo where the library used for the controller didn't allow pwm'ing the driver. So it was cool but it was still kind of glitchy

[proven galleon]

I have a friend who has been doing 3d printing for a couple of years and 90% of the stuff he prints is artistic stuff -- pretty things. I keep needing one but more to print enclosures and stands. I keep needing to find ways to mount my microcontrollers and their sensors and an nice custom enclosure would work great. I don't know if you've watched some of John Park's videos, he has printed up cases for a few of his recent projects like a game controller and a bluetooth pushbutton. Pretty cool stuff. Also of course there is the 3d Hangouts here at Adafruit with even more functional (and artistic) prints by Pedro and Noe on Wednesdays.

[quaint flint]

Im entirely self taught and whipped up this case

for a portable pc

SO yeah a 3d printer is a great thing to have if you are interested in making enclosures and stuff for your own projects!

[iron latch]

this is the keyboard i am working on atm. waiting on my pcbs to come in the mail. 3d printed the case

[bronze cosmos]

My mom has a similar mass produced keyboard, drives me insane to type on because the ctrl key is in an awful spot

[iron latch]

what is that? the case looks cool. but it reminds me of a dvd player

[iron latch]

should use this and make one that fitshttps://ryanis.cool/cosmos/

[quaint flint]

Haha, so its a pi 3b+, a screen and a keyboard in a custom case to make a handheld computer/cyberdeck thing. Theres a slot where you power it by slotting in a USB power bank as the battery

[bronze cosmos]

Oh interesting

[iron latch]

Oh thats cool. Save It for Parts on YouTube made a cyberdeck for satellite comunications

[bronze cosmos]

the other issue is I taught myself to type so I don't use every finger for the correct key every time so I just get totally screwed when typing on one

[quaint flint]

This was just a fun little project i did, its not super useful

[iron latch]

i am currently typing at 10 wpm because im trying to force myself away from the 2+thumb typing method

[bronze cosmos]

2+thumb?

[iron latch]

2 fingers and a thumb on each hand

[bronze cosmos]

Ahhh

[quaint flint]

oh i type terribly

I use two fingers and my thumb for the space bar 😄

i type 70-80wpm

[iron latch]

thats about wherre I am with te 2+t method 😄

[quaint flint]

Honestly i have never necessarily felt the need to attempt tp improve, this has always been fast enough for me but hey maybe ill add it to the list

[bronze cosmos]

that's impressive for two fingers lmao

i'm ~120 with my self-taught typing

I know that there's definitely things I do wrong, like typing y with my left hand or just changing what finger i type some letters with depending on what i typed before

[iron latch]

thats pretty good

[iron latch]

pairing to my smart phone with BLE and repeatedly KeyboardLayoutUS().write()'g yielded alarming results lol

[jovial kernel]

Its so hot

[quaint flint]

thats very cool

[jovial kernel]

First of its kind so happy with it

3 weeks of reverse engineering

[quaint flint]

I have a soft spot for these little terminal/organiser devices

id be fascinated to hear what you managed

[static flare]

that's so cool! can you use the keyboard?

[fluid notch]

help me please

i cant download

my ethernet is good

@idle lion u can add me?

i cant text u PM

[idle lion]

No PM. If you need help please use a public channel. That way if someone else has same problem they can find discussion.

[fluid notch]

ok

i can text here?

i download on this site https://circuitpython.org/board/raspberry_pi_pico/

but not download

[iron latch]

8 minutes to download the file?

you are looking for mirror?

[idle lion]

I am able to download it successfully from the pico download page right now. So our hosting platform is working fine I think. It could be something in your network that is blocking the file?

[fluid notch]

YE YE

GOOD

THANKS

I DOWNLOAD

[tribal brook]

What are the dead basic components everyone should have & what are the ranges for them?

[iron latch]

for what purpose would you need the components?

most of my stuff just built up over years of projects. i would always have extra parts (hotdogs count vs hot dog buns count)

you would build inventory for what you already have and maintain.

[quaint flint]

it does vary on what you expect to be doing yeah

[jovial kernel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/s/9cdAv9IIG1

[static flare]

nice

[tribal brook]

Mainly a list of what should be on hand that is useful for just about anything. Things like 1k resistors & schottky diodes & the like. For the most part I do collect from old projects. Just would like an idea of what should always be on the bench

[iron latch]

I think most inventories will be purpose driven else you just go down a suppliers list and get one or two of each item.

Looking at a post like this you can see the recommendations change from person to person because what they are actually trying to do dictates what they recommend.
https://share.google/QNKsKbm3dycKnRsMr

You need to have a purpose other than just the act of "having" to get a solid idea of what you need.

My first projects started out by ordering things and then once I get into them I find I need to order more things. It's the nature of it unless you have a solid plan for a targeted project.

You won't always have what you need on hand but over time and with specific planning you will accumulate what you need in general

[orchid cove]

Getting some wire (22 gauge), a power source (lots of options, from battery holder to usb to bench supply) and a basic assortment of resistors, electrolytic capacitors, ceramic capacitors, random LEDs, and transistors lets you breadboard a lot of fun circuits. Add a couple of transformers you can make yourself and you can build even more. These are useful for building circuits, but if you're using microcontrollers and boards with an easy connector system, you might not use any of them

[tribal brook]

This is roughly what I was looking for. Range suggestions?

[orchid cove]

I'd just search for resistor and capacitor kits etc on your online store of preference. You can often get away with powers of 10 for resistors from~10Ω to 1MΩ-100MΩ but an E3 set (or E6 or E12) are convenient. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_series_of_preferred_numbers

[fair summit]

there are component kits with a LOT of components on Amazon, etc. I don't know about the quality but they're probably fine.

[neat lynx]

Does anyone know if the github student feature is broken? when klicking on the link i get prompted to create an adafruit account, and then i assumed im supposted to link my adafruit account to github, but that button returns 404

[fair summit]

Please write to [e-mail], and give them the exact links and where the links gave from.

[neat lynx]

will do!

[sturdy dawn]

The five address pin panels weren't so great for the Pico arcade, got some flicker. Still makes a decent sign though

Cyberpunk cantina

[sturdy dawn]

Oh lol stupid me. Ada added support for the triple output driver

[iron latch]

Well. I managed to make my circuitpy boot in safemode and disable auto-reload by accident lol

[iron latch]

The latency between my two boards over BLE is 58ms I wonder if i can make that better

[mellow solstice]

I am a beginner and I’m trying to fix my bad soldering anybody have any useful pointers? Like if my solder goes through the board 🥲🥲🥲

I think I goofed.

[quaint flint]

Practice mostly! If you post pics some people might be able to give pointers

[sturdy dawn]

You touching the board with the iron?

Only touch the circuit prongs I'm not sure the technical name

I wanna try that heat gun soldering, looks so satisfying

[mellow solstice]

Yea see I had previously soldered it and it was absolutely horrible. So I’m redoing what I messed up and I think some of the solder went through the board but this is also my very first time (well technically second) doing anything like this so thankfully it’s a cheap mistake idk what the proper chat would be to put pics in

I don’t mind showing cause constructive criticism is actually what I need rn honestly

[sturdy dawn]

It's like playing Operation. Really dating myself

[mellow solstice]

😂 I like that perspective!

[lapis anchor]

When you say solder went through the board, do you mean the through holes where the pins go? That's relatively normal 😄

It's all about just getting used to a workflow - I usually run my iron around 330c for most soldering, apply a little solder to the tip just to help heat transfer, then while the tip is on the pad - apply a bit more solder. As soon as the solder is melted - I pull it off, I try not to linger too much or overfill the solder pad/hole. Just enough to get the connection and you're goooood 👌

Keeping your tip cleaned and putting some solder on it before you put it back in the holder to help avoid oxidation works well for me.

[mellow solstice]

AHHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!!

[sturdy dawn]

Yes, a bunch of residual solder always been one of my issues

Stuff just wants to stick to the iron and itself

[lapis anchor]

Adafruit has a good video from the OG Collin (only about 5 min)
https://youtu.be/QKbJxytERvg

[quaint flint]

its honestly all practice, i was pretty terrible until recently when i practiced a bunch more and now i can do fairly nice joins, at least on easier components

[sturdy dawn]

Being near a window or fan Hood. Or at least wear a mask or something.

Some solder contains lead even if it doesn't, it still puts off a bunch of soot in the air

[terse lava]

That would be due to not properly getting the heat into the things you are trying to solder. Most cold solder joints happen because people either heat the pad only or the pin only and so the solder doesn't flow onto the other "cold" part you are trying to joint. Your iron tip should be touching both the pad and the pin at the same time.

[sturdy dawn]

Pin is what you're soldering to and pad is like the wire you're soldering to it right?

[terse lava]

The vaporization temperature of lead is much much higher than typical soldering temps. So the fumes are all flux. There is no lead in the fumes. That said, the flux fumes can still be a respiratory issue for people and a fan to help draw the fumes away from you is a good idea. I have found using a 12V or 24V computer fan run off 5V usb will spin just enough to give a gentle flow and draw fumes away without a loud high speed fan spinning next to you drawing too much air.

[sturdy dawn]

Yeah I get irritated easily with especially electronic odors

[terse lava]

What ever two things you are trying to join together with solder, both should be heated at the same time with your iron for the solder to flow ("wet") both.

[sturdy dawn]

Right, I'm just trying to get the terminology right

I did a bunch of soldering with making homemade vape boxes but those are huge gauge wires so it's a lot different than this

[terse lava]

Yeah, I was originally referring to when people put pin headers into a developement board. The iron tip should go down into the "corner" touching the pad of the board and the pin to get them soldered. Otherwise you see things like solder sticking to only the pin or sticking to the pad but kind of forming around the pin without actually "wetting" onto the pin. These joints can often look "ok" to people not really familiar with soldering, but on a close up level one or the other is not connected well or intermittently.

[terse lava]

With big gauge wires or heavy terminal, this is where a variable temp iron comes in handy where you can turn up the heat. Or you might need to switch out to a different thicker tip than you would normally use with pin headers or components. And for a lot of heavy wires, an old fashioned soldering "gun" might be a good investment.

[sturdy dawn]

Think I was also getting a lot of smoke because I was using rosin core

Spool of it from like 1998 from radio shack 😆

[mellow solstice]

Did I do it chat? 🥹

[terse lava]

Probably the most "activated" rosin to boot so probably really good at soldering but for long term a board or other soldered connection with it probably should be cleaned as leaving the activated rosin can lead to issues over time like corrosion.

[terse lava]

If that is the way you meant for the display to show, then nice job. Soldering can be a bit intimmidating at first, but it is like sewing, get a few under your belt and it becomes much easier.

[mellow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-rue-bennett-zendaya-euphoria-thanks-gif-24902453

[terse lava]

Just don't take that through TSA at the airport! 😉

[lapis anchor]

[lapis anchor]

Hey it's just a clock!

[mellow solstice]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 10/4!!

[lapis anchor]

[iron latch]

Always use flux for applying AND removing solder
https://www.reddit.com/r/soldering/comments/1aq4pw1/i_dont_understand_how_flux_works/

And see if you can get a syringe applicator for your flux if you dont have one.

[mellow solstice]

Thank you so much!!!!! 🩷🩷

[sturdy dawn]

It's almost as if the universe prepared me for all these things. Watched a tutorial on how to edit vector graphics in blender back when I was chasing the stream dream

I was okay at speed runs but oats is the goat

Couple hours to refamiliarize and get comfortable

[wet bolt]

Hello, there!

As a software engineer, is there anyting that I can help you?

I am looking for a project now, but not really....
I am specialized in Unity game development, website development.
If you want, I can help you get back up to speed with Blender and vector editing

[sturdy dawn]

I'm hacking at it like a caveman 😆 but that's my process to remember it well

Just weird stuff. Maybe it's limitations of blender but like when you add a mesh it's automatically 2 m wide which is a difficult size to scale down with what I'm working with

Starting point at 1 m. It would be a little more accurate I think. The voxels aren't exactly 1 mm like I want them to be

Ahhhh just figured it out. Remesh before resize

[wet bolt]

Good

[sturdy dawn]

I'm pretty quick but I should brush up. On a day off would be better though

[wet bolt]

You could try setting your scene units to metric and adjusting the grid scale so new meshes default to 1m or 1mm instead of 2 m

[sturdy dawn]

I thought remeshing at 1 mm would kill the processor but it was pretty instant

[wet bolt]

That makes sense.

[sturdy dawn]

9th gen i5 shouldn't have any problems with this

[wet bolt]

That's awesome

Your PC is good. Makes the voxel workflow way smoother

[sturdy dawn]

Yeah that's still like $100 processor

I have a box of old like core 2 duos and stuff

[wet bolt]

Core 2 Duo box?

That's some serious nostalgia!

[sturdy dawn]

Yeah just old chips I threw into a box

Yes!

First laptop was a core to Duo

First actual PC build was like a Pentium 4 with hyper threading

[wet bolt]

Ah, classsic! Core 2 Duo brings back memories - those laptops really lasted forever

[sturdy dawn]

Yeah they don't make vaios anymore. I was such a name brand idiot

Sony was never like a spectacular company for their PCS but they were never bad

They had the Trinitron monitors which are like gold now

[wet bolt]

Yeah, vaios are basically history now.
Sony PCs are solid but not flashy

[sturdy dawn]

I worked at Best Buy and they filled me in. That was when Asus was up and coming and everybody at Best Buy was suggesting them

[wet bolt]

I think trinitron monitors are totally collector's gold now

[sturdy dawn]

I snagged this gem from a recycling center

24" think they wanted 150 bucks which was still half of what you can get them on eBay for

[wet bolt]

Really?

$150 for a 24'' Trinitron?

[sturdy dawn]

Yeah this was like 5 years ago before the hype really blew up

[wet bolt]

Ah, perfect timing then!

[wet bolt]

Currently, I'm looking for any project that I can help with my capacity

[sturdy dawn]

Phone died last night. Didn't mean to bail

You would think as a nerd I would have this installed on a computer

I didn't realize that when you come up with your own print design, you can actually copyright it and reserve a place to sell it

Remember people saying that way back when they came out but totally forgot

But I should repeat what I've heard here before, technology shouldn't just be a money-making scheme. It should actually be for the good of society

Inflation for the sake of inflation just leaves us all broke 😆

[dusky beacon]

uhm what is aeg tv18 2k7 i have one idk what it issssssssss

[upper lodge]

I hope it's okay for me to post this here. I think something may be wrong with the Adafruit ads on Facebook:

Each of those links takes me to a description of the image:

https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/105356

https://learn.adafruit.com/assets/69432

[fair summit]

thank you, I'll pass this on.

[dawn lily]

Hey everyone! 👋
I’m looking to learn about the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB. Does anyone here have experience with it or can point me to some good learning resources? 🙏

[fair summit]

Answered in #help-with-circuitpython . Please don't cross post without deleting your old post, because someone may answer in one place without knowing you posted in another.

[clever carbon]

may i ask recommandations about a resume?

[fair summit]

you mean to review your resume? Sounds alright. You might want ot anonymize it. Self-promotion is discouraged unless it's well-related to the topics in this server.

[clever carbon]

yes thanks, I don't like it either having my personal infos shared all over the internet either... although there are some curse word like rocketreach who steal and resell your info through fake job advertising

I try to always put everything in one single page... nobody will ever read a stranger's biography long multiple pages, I think

Or I personally would not

leaved out the school part, as I sort of failed at school due skipping classes a lot, often changing schools and mobbing
can't get out to say at the end, that I just got an art degree (many will think that you can't do anything, as if everything you learn is just at school) as my partents really wanted for me to get a piece of paper

fired from my "current" job, cause as much I do have the skills, I look authistic, and I'm not fit to deal with people, cit.
Or like there are some untold rules that I seem to not respect, like not drinking from the fish's tank, not that I did, but it's just an example
But if they do not tell me, how am I supposed to fix myself? sorry for the half rant here

[clever carbon]

i wonder why nobody ever gives me feedbacks lately 😓

[fair summit]

Suggestions: fix spelling errors. Remove offhand remarks and rewrite slang. "Generalistic" is not a common word. Maybe don't emphasize malicious projects unless you're applying for a security job.

If you think you're neurodivergent, consider help from supportive organizations. In US, https://aane.org and similar. In other countries, I don't know. You don't have to work on this by yourself.

[clever carbon]

thanks, honstly I was just mass spamming my resume around, trying to avoid work agencies (they are a waste of time)
Honestly idk, that's the impression that I always give off to people, either authistic/weird/missfit
Personally I think it's due to long term isolation, but idk

[kindred isle]

Well, this server (or at least this channel and the general tech one) are kinda slow anyway.

[sturdy dawn]

Well now. That was a 13 hour day and I was supposed to mow the lawn but now I can move around Blender pretty well

My goal for the day was to finish one model and I completed it so tomorrow will be chores

Actually not even done

[quaint flint]

never really got the hang of blender

but most of the things i need to model are much easier in something like fusion360

[tribal brook]

Curious: why do we use 3v3?

[quaint flint]

Like why do we say it as 3v3 or why do we use 3.3v

[fair summit]

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/28053/what-does-3v3-or-1v8-mean

[clever carbon]

if you need precison definitely.
I find rhino to be bettwe, their license check thingy, is really garbage

[fair summit]

It uses fewer characters and avoids questions of , vs . for a decimal point

[sturdy dawn]

Is that free? I was just using free stuff for now since I'm not like professional level with it

[quaint flint]

For hobby use you can use it free, but it has some limitations

[sturdy dawn]

It reminds me of designing maps in far cry so it's really therapeutic to be honest. Except for when you accidentally change the voxel size to 0004 and it crashes the whole project that you didn't save

.0004**

I had a whole cutout design for an adafruit board

I know my mistakes now though. I was remeshing with block mode which has a limitation of .99 scale

[quaint flint]

There are some other programs that have a similar workflow to fusion360 if i remember rightly, but its a workflow im really into for making enclosures and whatnot

[sturdy dawn]

So every time you remesh it screws up the geometry

Couldn't for the life of me get a flat plane to be an actual meshed thing so I imported an SVG I made with gimp

Same method I followed from how to make a spinning logo that glows

[tribal brook]

The first one

[quaint flint]

danh allready answered, it prevents confusion. Depending where you live 3.3 could be written as 3,3, using 3v3 both describes the voltage and ensures no one gets confused

[steep bone]

Dot might be too small and get lost

[terse lava]

Although it is also a hold over from printing and copying where schematics may begin to lose the decimal points in something copied, scanned, or faxed a time or three. So 3.3 begins to look like 33. But 3V3 and for that matter things like 4K7 for a 4.7 k resistor if the page has been photo copies to many times that you can no longer read the V or the K, then you likely can't make out the values at all, let alone all those fine lines interconnecting everything.

[quaint flint]

Very interesting, ty

[hidden raft]

the documentation for .gyro is wrong here. it says the return value is degrees per second, but it's actually radians per second: https://docs.circuitpython.org/projects/mpu6050/en/latest/api.html#adafruit_mpu6050.GyroRange

same in the learning article, it's referred to as deg/s when it should be rad/s everywhere https://learn.adafruit.com/mpu6050-6-dof-accelerometer-and-gyro/python-and-circuitpython

[fair summit]

Thanks - we intend to always return radians for all gyro sensors, and convert as needed. Originally the library returned degrees/sec, but that was changed here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_MPU6050/pull/17. However, the documentation was not changed.

If you have a github account we would welcome an issue: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_MPU6050/issues otherwise I can add one.

[hidden raft]

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_MPU6050/issues/43

[fair summit]

Thanks!

[ancient rivet]

learn page updated. @hidden raft this is also a good chance for a first pull request if you're interested. the docs are generated from the source code in that repo. just need to change this line:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_MPU6050/blob/928d747a826fc8d8c4237ed1b40b53cf723cf1ee/adafruit_mpu6050.py#L291

[viral smelt]

Hi, has there been any update on when Ask An Engineer is coming back?

[steep lava]

is there anyone looking for a dev?

[hot temple]

Hi, I don't know if there's a better channel for it, but I just wrote a simple mechanism for auto connect to one of multiple wifis, so if anyone wants to use it, here it is: https://github.com/matemaciek/circuitpython_auto_wifi

[sturdy dawn]

Acid rain? 😆😆

I also made Err. Igniknokt needs 64x64 panel

To make the pair I need a bigger pitch 64x64 but it would make a cool rear window light as long as the cops don't pull me over for it

[kindred isle]

I never got pulled over for it, but my car failed inspection one year because "you can't have stickers in your back window because they're an obstruction."
Ok, but what about all those vehicles that you can't see out the back window at all due to any number of things? How are those ok?

Also, since we're showing off LED wall clocks, my in progress project.

Things to note, the 7 segment digits are abstracted to allow different sizes, and if there are gaps between the segments. So both the big and small digits are the same function. The seconds are red to indicate a pending time update from the internet. It schedules a time update on boot up, as well as every day at 2AM. The update itself doesn't happen until 10 seconds after the minute, just because that was the first idea that came to mind to avoid missing the update after DST changeovers. If an update fails, it simply waits another minute to try again. Temperature and humidity are actually local sensors. Eventually I'll have bluetooth connected sensors outside for the current outside conditions.

[terse lava]

Just don't put that on any Boston overpasses or bridges.

[sturdy dawn]

That whole thing was funny but then the Boston Marathon thing happened and then it wasn't so funny anymore

[trail vault]

any timeline on when tcs3448 breakout board will be available for purchase?

[iron latch]

@stuck moth in regards to https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_BLE/issues/222#issuecomment-4479844709
where you talking about something like this?

I dont know how to use nrf connect. I think I need a dongle?

[stuck moth]

I was thinking nrfconnect on a phone

it can show you all advertisements around you

it's been a while since I've done it on a computer

[iron latch]

ohhh let me get that app then lol

i was overthinking it as usual

[fair summit]

it gives more info on android than ios. Also use it landscape instead of portrait to see more

I use it on an old android tablet

[stuck moth]

ios should still give you the raw advertisement bytes iirc

[iron latch]

ok I got the same packet info as I did from wireshark capture should i attach this?

[stuck moth]

is your service uuid listed there? it's been ages since I've done BLE so you have fresh context

[iron latch]

Im new to BLE. but i know the BD_ADDR is the address of the device. here are the service uuids i believe

[stuck moth]

that's once you connect, not the advertisement

[clever carbon]

hm lately I get a lot of those random songs with really low view count
wich I don't quite mind, but are they all ai generated or the kind?

[sturdy dawn]

I made this whole thing without the snapping function and now that I've learned it I wanna trash the whole thing and start over 😆

Just a caveman out here lol. It was the B key.

Basically a remix but I'm going from scratch so I can call it my own

[tepid badge]

Hello sorry for bother but I am new graduated engineer and I am trying to use the IMU BNO085 in my project I ahve some quasion if some one can help I will be thankful

I am trying to calibrate the BNO085 using python and the code I found on githup "https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_BNO08x/blob/main/examples/bno08x_calibration.py"
the problem is even when I calibrate the device and save it using bno.save_calibration() function when I restart the device it seam that the calibration result go and start from 0 do I do something wrong ?

[iron latch]

Do you need to have some code to load/check the stored calibration data at the begining of the loop?

[tepid badge]

no I don't need to have but I am checking to see if the calibration has been saved correct

[iron latch]

How are you checking that the calibration saves?

[tepid badge]

I run in separate code and check the calibration statues

[hasty quarry]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1078529685253804032/1507197776549642350/IMG_3485.jpg?ex=6a1106d0&is=6a0fb550&hm=7ed0de311aa03f4d5b508c626578707c21a73bc8fc930947a3e8f42253d97018&

Probably the neatest breadboarding I've done yet. Good start

[lapis anchor]

I got hooked on these jumper pins a vendor was selling on eBay for a while, they're just header pins bent to size but (they stopped selling them last I checked )

[iron latch]

grids are addictive lol

[sturdy dawn]

I just put in another whole work day of blender

Bambu throws some warning about orientation but then you just move it over 2mm on the plate and the slice is OK

Starting with scaling my SVG to exactly 10x the final total size and then Just moving the decimal over for my measurements

[dusky beacon]

so uhm i have a question is it normal to use a soldering iron at 11

[solar kindle]

Well, I was using one at that age, but I'm not sure anyone should use me as a benchmark for what's normal. 😄

[quaint flint]

I think i used one in school at that age?

[fair summit]

i built a multimeter as a kit around that age, and then built a shortwave radio kit a little after that. "typical", no, "normal", yes, everyone has their hobbies.

58 years ago

[iron latch]

11pm or 11am? 😄

It is normal to use it safely at anytime in your life. To use it unsafely is abnormal.

[kindred isle]

Oh see, I thought they were turning it up to 11.
"But these go to 11."

[terse lava]

https://tenor.com/view/these-go-to-eleven-nigel-tufnel-this-is-spinal-tap-these-go-higher-than-ten-these-go-beyond-the-limit-gif-14815064966019984807

[kindred isle]

Precisely.

[clever carbon]

I like to do, not so ethical things, but I don't really put them in the market,
which I'd like to show off, but people do really get defensive/mad about it
as with rogue devices hidden in docking stations, or female/female rj45 (pretty usefull for vpns)
or scam plotting schemes or whatever, everything not ethical but I don't actually deliver, just plot ploy, or do it in small scale as proof of work.

There were forums like breached forums or whatever, can't recall, they go down pretty easily
But it's all garbage. there was one that was actually great, but lost my credentials long ago, cgpersia or something alike
it was mostly for crac king programs, but we were helping each other out at the time

Btw... the so called gaphene os, which is boosted for security and whatever, has actually isr @ l, roots.
Their famous malware for android, may actually be a wrapper of the latter, hidden through adb commands,
As you can archive the same thing through termux, which can call android APIs

[pseudo rapids]

Hi

[lapis anchor]

<@&327289013561982976>

[fair summit]

Thanks!

[wise pollen]

hi everyone i am new to everything

[iron latch]

@quaint flint My mother-in law asked if i could fix her laptop case. so i looked at it over facetime and yelled: "You put that thing outside in the middle of the yard right now!" her battery had swollen up to the diameter of a golfball and was warping her laptop case

[quaint flint]

Oooof

We love a spicy pillow

From a distance

My gf calls them magic batteries, because you look away from then and they magically turn into a fire

[iron latch]

So..I get the left keyboard together and theres not enough room for the battery. (For my comfort.) So now I have to load the bas STL into blender and make it larger and reprint it

[dusky beacon]

11 years old actually i used it for the first time at 8 years old now im 11 but i rarely use it but now i have copper tape and wanna make a 7 segment display w copper tape THEN AN AMPLIFIERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 5w

[iron latch]

Nice! Ampli🔥

[iron latch]

I added a pocket thats 8mm deep (hastily) so hopefully I can fit my batteries with out fear.

[quaint flint]

Yeah dont see why not, whats your mounting solution for the battery?

[iron latch]

two sided gorilla tape 😄

I put the side with the battery label on the tape so that the label adhesion will fail before the battery sheath when removing the battery

it will be sitting near the post on the right

[quaint flint]

yeah that should work fine lol

[iron latch]

looking at the height difference between the original and current...i may reduce that a bit if test fitting shows me i have room 🙂

[quaint flint]

yeah any increased height will probably effect ergonomics so that might be wise

[tawdry wagon]

An XoXBoX TB303 popped up on a used gear site. I had no idea these were ever made haha!

[tall berry]

Hello guys can someone help me, im learning electronics and I've been over thinking should i just make things what i wanna make then know what i need to learn how to make it and understand it then just make projects and learn how to do it then time by time i can fill gaps or i need to do more things to learn, and do you guys know where i can learn theory because i really don't know what to learn, like i know I don't know everything and it's making me over think thanks in advance

[quaint flint]

So im gonna say it depends on how best you learn, some people do better doing the research first, some have more fun jumping into the project first and working out everything as they go along

It also depends what KIND of electronics you are interested in! DO you want to do analog circuits, digital? rely heavily on microcontrollers? Why not think of some of the things you would LIKE to do and then people could definately suggest a path for you

[tall berry]

I really like making a game console i have made one before using esp32 c3 mini and would like to make more in the future, im also interested in making a radio I really wanna try making one, and i like making music player like using df player and even wanting to use a microcontroller for my music player, overall i just like making playing around with modules and microcontrollers

[sick apex]

the AI detection software used for assignments marked my python work as AI

because, and i stfg it has "consistent indentation"

because my python code runs so it must be AI

😭

[kindred isle]

It... It's Python. It's REQUIRED to have consistent indentation.
Heck, even if it were C++ that'd be a meaningless indicator as any proper IDE has a "fix indentation" option.

Tell your teacher that the software is clearly useless.

Or challenge them to write a functioning Python script that has inconsistent indenting.

[iron latch]

Personally, I learn best by standing on the shoulders of giants. I follow DiY projects until i get familiar enough to start seeing how things are supposed to go. from there i can branch out or make my own things.

[golden forum]

Is there anyone who has built an 8 bit pc or something similar to this

[sinful stratus]

i bought the pan tilt zoom camera kit from adafruit and it works, but the servo jiggles a lot when it gets to the end of its travel and sometimes it gets stuck vibrating. i think maybe my camera is just too heavy. any tips? maybe i need a stronger micro servo? or is there somewhere i can add springs or something to dampen it? im less of a mechanical engineer lol

[iron latch]

I tried a few pints and ended up only needing to add 6mm more depth to the bottom half. Here's the battery situation. ~0.75 mm head room than originally above the battery.

[quaint flint]

Looks like it will fit nicely

[iron latch]

I call it the Cygnus 6x4 Moar Rüme edition lol

[hollow flint]

Although not actually comprised of 8-bit hardware, Fruit Jam OS on the Adafruit Fruit Jam is quite similar in practice.

[hollow flint]

Or is it closer to the 16-bit vintage computing era? 🤔

[umbral vault]

Do you need a developer?

[kindred isle]

Not really. Mostly just posing because it was an interesting series of events. I'm just going to make a point of restarting Discord once in a while.

[dusty citrus]

This is my home.

[stuck moth]

😃

[abstract violet]

• \o/ *

[dusty citrus]

ahaha
EDIT:
RUMPELSTILTSKIN

[abstract violet]

prosecco bears for everyonnne

https://www.squishcandies.com/en_ca/products/1108-Prosecco-Bears

[faint glacier]

Excellent!~

[dusty citrus]

Fascinating what you chose to inaugurate your offtopicness, with.

laughs

[vast condor]

Ohhh this is a good channel to add

[abstract violet]

I read that in a Mr. Burns accent @faint glacier

[faint glacier]

And now the first portion of my Utopia Descending character's cover-up laden backstory begins. fb.me/B34TR

[indigo jetty]

Discord Android has an infuriating "feature" where if you rotate your screen while you have a message typed in the text box it will clear it out

I didn't feel I had anywhere here to share it before

[abstract violet]

haha! @indigo jetty have you reported it?

[dusty citrus]

Like just about everything Android, they don't expand the text entry box appropriately. They give you three tiny lines which are difficult to edit (at all).

The expanding text entry for the (Linux) desktop client, by contrast, is pretty good stuff.

HEY. The people icon (to the left of search, top right corner) makes the channel's member list go away!

Control + and Control - work as expected (they're fairly universal keymappings now).

[abstract violet]

good shortcuts

[dusty citrus]

Two-fingers on the trackpad, up and down to scroll.

[abstract violet]

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

"That means that ~29% of the US population alone can barely handle digital tasks that require anything more than familiarity—like email software or a web browser—or for which there is any type of navigation or commands required to access information within a digital product. 14% of the US population can't do much outside of one specific task using a single interface.
There's a clear need not merely for improved computer literacy, but for product designers who can meet the needs of those who fall below the median levels of computer ability.
If you work in digital technology: how are you keeping these lower levels of computer literacy in mind? Are you surprised by these findings or do they resonate with your thinking?"

[dusty citrus]

A slngle forward slash, in the text entry box (bottom) brings up a list of things.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

haha.

that was /shrug

[abstract violet]

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[dusty citrus]

This reminds me of fix.no on port 23

[stuck moth]

┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[abstract violet]

https://giphy.com/gifs/beyonce-lemonade-baseball-bat-l3V0doGbp2EDaLHJC

[stuck moth]

it begins

[dusty citrus]

oh no moving pictures please. NONE.

[abstract violet]

it moves youuu

@faint glacier found a project that may be of interest to yah: https://imgur.com/a/dscH6

[dusty citrus]

I'm going to have to find a way to suppress all those Adafruit.com animations. When the neopixel uberguide page is in the web browser, it pretty much makes my laptop useless for anything else.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 42
model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3964676    2988008     976668     471996     183532    1096292
-/+ buffers/cache:    1708184    2256492

[indigo jetty]

Existing issue apparently

[faint glacier]

@abstract violet Interesting concept to be sure. Might be something I could look into adapting.

[indigo jetty]

Lacking motivation to do an hour of soldering right now

I'll never get that matrix finished if I don't keep at it though!

[abstract violet]

@indigo jetty would volunteer, but not sure how my soldering skills are in comparison :laugh:

[indigo jetty]

I don't think you've seen mine either!

One suggestion I did was to have is blue tac

I'm not sure if that's what it's called in Canada /Us

I think it is

[stuck moth]

I think it is the same @indigo jetty

[abstract violet]

what are you building again? an LED panel?

[indigo jetty]

Dance floor for toys

Not really 😂

Not really 😂

[abstract violet]

have seen: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:371742

3d printed LED jigs

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1342515

[indigo jetty]

Mine is using neopixel strips

[abstract violet]

are you making a video 😃

[indigo jetty]

Yes!

I have about 10-12 hours of unedited footage so far 😐

[abstract violet]

https://giphy.com/gifs/T5nb5qCJ9pQqY

[indigo jetty]

I love hwigunus videos

I envy his style too

Where he can make several videos on a single project but make them interesting

(the person from the first thingiverse link)

[abstract violet]

funny!

the video titles.. lol

@indigo jetty watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhFYTClgwU

very informative xD

[indigo jetty]

Mighty blu tac trick

I'm sure I watched that one @abstract violet but I don't remember it off the top of my head

I love his enthusiasm in his voice

[indigo jetty]

Half way with the soldering

[dusty citrus]

This #channel is a hit!

[abstract violet]

@indigo jetty looking good! what are you using to control the lights?

[indigo jetty]

Esp8266

Although I'm not doing anything WiFi-y at the moment

Just running a modified version of strip test that comes with the adafruit neopixel library

[abstract violet]

cool! the strip test is fun to watch 😄

[indigo jetty]

Ya!

I'll start doing some WiFi stuff with it soon, a friend of mine offered to help with the website to control it

[abstract violet]

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15985940/wearable-electronic-skin-nanomesh-health-monitoring

[indigo jetty]

I'd be able to do it myself, but he's better at front end than me so he'd do it a lot better and faster than me

That sentence was terrible

[abstract violet]

sounds like a plan! im a web designer/developer unicorn btw-- feel free to throw any questions my way if you encounter em

[indigo jetty]

But you get what I mean 😂

Cool! Yeah thanks

[abstract violet]

husband is a developer too, so whatever i cant do i bug him about 😂

[indigo jetty]

Nice!

I was taking to a girl at the wedding I was at on Friday, and we were talking about hobbies

So I started to try explain mine

We had already talked about college and jobs and she was a biomedical scientist

Most developers I talk to haven't even heard of arduinos so I was trying to explain what it was I was interested in

I was pretty relieved when she was like "is that like arduinos?"

[abstract violet]

haha neutrinos?

is that a vitamin?

hehe

[indigo jetty]

Cause I felt like I was doing a terrible job explaining

No she knew exactly what it was, she had watched some videos about them before and was curious about them

[abstract violet]

hahah, yeah i actually dont recall how i even found out about arduinos

[indigo jetty]

I can remember exactly

I was looking at the raspberry pi sub reddit about a post of someone looking for a zero

[abstract violet]

would be interesting to see how she'd apply what she does in biomedical in a project

ooh back when they were on the magpi magazines?

[indigo jetty]

And someone posted up that while they were waiting for a zero they figured what they needed was actually an esp8266

And I thought they seemed pretty cool for a few dollars so I said I'd give it a try

Rest is unmemorable history

[abstract violet]

Hahha its all a dream!

[indigo jetty]

I think she was generally just a curious person, I'm not sure she had plans for it

She was saying her boyfriend had a starter kit but hadn't started it yet

[abstract violet]

ah the starter kit was fun! just short

[bold turtle]

... and that reminds me I have an ESP32 I need to get to poking at with a sharp stick.....

[abstract violet]

careful, @bold turtle - make sure it's ESD safe lels

[indigo jetty]

My life with esp32 got off to a bad start

I tried my telegram library on it and it's very unstable

I'm not sure exactly what's wrong but it crashes very often

I'm sure it's me

[dusty citrus]

https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.112749945.6816/ap,550x550,12x16,1,transparent,t.u2.png

[abstract violet]

have you tried turning it on and off again @indigo jetty

[indigo jetty]

It does that it's self

Every two minutes 😂

[bold turtle]

oh ouch

[indigo jetty]

Tbh I don't think it even lasts two minutes

[abstract violet]

is it dead? have you tried setting up from ground up?

[indigo jetty]

I can't remember

What I did

I had a echo bot on it telegram

So if you messaged the bot the esp would echo it back

This works perfectly on the esp8266

But the esp32 would work sometimes and crash more times

I assume I ran blink or something simple first

I need to dig into when I get a chance

Which will probably be never 😂

[bold turtle]

here ya go, @indigo jetty http://3dmailresults.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/RoundTuit.png

[abstract violet]

aw, you should keep at it 😄 and report back findings

[indigo jetty]

I had to look that up

[abstract violet]

go where no man has gone b4

[indigo jetty]

I had no idea what a tuit was!

What I would need to do is not go to work or something

My maker time is very limited

Between work and commute and then either looking after my daughter or cooking I don't really get to start anything til 9

[bold turtle]

HAHHA

[indigo jetty]

And that's even if
a) I'm in the mood to work on something
b) I don't do something with my fiance

[abstract violet]

@indigo jetty just gotta extend the hours in the day xD

[indigo jetty]

My current active todo list is as follows:

A) Led Marrix (plus video and instructable, maybe learn guide)
B) redo map project for learn guide
C) make a learn guide for Telegram
D) release some video soon so I don't start losing subs

[dusty citrus]

I need a 27 1/2 hour day; I'm not tired enough to fall instantly asleep until I'm well into the 2nd day.

[indigo jetty]

@abstract violet I am extending it apparently by staying up talking to you guys!

I just finished watching game of thrones

[abstract violet]

😂 🙃

[dusty citrus]

It's more cost-effective, though, to stop using electricity after sunset than to .. slow the rotation of the Earth.

[indigo jetty]

I could just do with a clone

[dusty citrus]

Without electric light, I think my sleep cycle would quickly normalize.

[indigo jetty]

Or to win the lottery

[dusty citrus]

You couldn't be sure your clone wasn't having most of the fun.

[indigo jetty]

True

Maybe my todo list would at least get shorter

[dusty citrus]

I'd rather clone somebody else (checks room topic: good) .. because then, if I got it wrong .. it'll be (both of) their problem, not so much mine.

[indigo jetty]

OK @bold turtle, I'm an idiot

A round to it

A round tuit

I'm not a smart man

[dusty citrus]

cue music: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o09L-hkrzhw

[bold turtle]

Hey, you're smart enough to get a bot running on an ESP8266

[indigo jetty]

Right I'm going to go to bed, have a good evening /night

[bold turtle]

... and yer cute, which I'm sure fiancee appreciates

Nini

[dusty citrus]

Goodnght Brian

[bold turtle]

Also, admitting you're occasionally an idiot is the first step in NOT being a complete idiot

[abstract violet]

@indigo jetty nighty!

[viral spruce]

@bold turtle http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories/keyboards-and-mice/keyboards/KEYBOARD-US-English/p/0B47189

[bold turtle]

oh, dang

.... I am actually considering spending more than $50 on a keyboard now...

My wallet hates you, @viral spruce 😉

[viral spruce]

dont do it, but that's what I was thinking about when you mentioned that.

[bold turtle]

AAHHH Sparky Icon!!!!!

[viral spruce]

👌

[bold turtle]

I know for a while, back when dionsaurs roamed the internet, they actually had a stand-alone trackpoint thingy

[viral spruce]

you can...make one 😃

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3246

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2765

• USB-hid with circuitpython

[bold turtle]

That... is a possible decent substitute...

[polar wraith]

I am envious of PhilT's - @night crescent - camera fu. 😃

[indigo jetty]

6/10

[stuck moth]

good job @indigo jetty !

[abstract violet]

yay @indigo jetty \o/

[indigo jetty]

This is a war of attrition more than making

Thanks guys, I really do need to get a new soldering iron though, next pay cheque I might treat myself 😋

[abstract violet]

which one are you looking at? Ive been considering the TS100 i keep seeing..

[indigo jetty]

Ya I was saying to Scott last week that's what I was thinking too

I feel like I've been guerilla marketed with it

[abstract violet]

haha right? have you seen the custom firmware? https://github.com/Ralim/ts100

makes it even better

[indigo jetty]

Maybe at the end of the video I make for this I could say "any companies want to send me one, my moral and integrity can be bought for the low low price of a ts100"

That sounds awesome

I would feel very weird getting anything that way

[abstract violet]

I like that its designed to be portable, have very limited space for things and could put it inside one of my marker/pens cases x)

[indigo jetty]

Ya

[abstract violet]

I dont have one personally but looking to get one eventually

adds neopixels all over

[indigo jetty]

The whole byoPSU is kinda odd

[abstract violet]

although could prolly add a tip light or something

Yeah, but it gives you the flexibility to have as much or as little power as you want.. the higher=faster heat up times..

[indigo jetty]

True

Like u have a few old laptop supplies around, but would the average person?

Where would you buy it @abstract violet ,China ?or are there any more local sellers

[abstract violet]

I dont know which power supply would be the best fit but some youtubers have some good suggestions...
Would prolly get it off Amazon.ca ($90 CAD with 2day prime), but can also get them for $80 CAD in ebay.. just would take longer.

[indigo jetty]

Yeah £60 on Amazon UK for me

China is 50-60$

But technically would be liable for tax

[abstract violet]

how much is tax?

[indigo jetty]

23%

Plus €7 processing fee

And shipping would be a lot faster off Amazon

Obvious choice I think

[abstract violet]

Convenient to have a faster way of getting replacements in case of DoA etc too

[indigo jetty]

Ya

[indigo jetty]

Made a bid on an old weller adjustable station in ebay, would be an interesting get

[abstract violet]

Ooh! How much time left?

[indigo jetty]

2 days

http://ebay.co.uk/itm/122604669701

Not the prettiest, also no display

But I'm sure it's still good

[abstract violet]

😲 yeah! I hope it turns out!

[weary trench]

Hey everyone! Who here is a fan of Particle (photon, electron, etc)?

[stuck moth]

hi @weary trench ! welcome to the chat. I haven't used them

[indigo jetty]

My instructable prize came today 😀

[stuck moth]

what is it @indigo jetty ?

[indigo jetty]

Wow I'm a terrible camera person

[abstract violet]

oh cool! 😄

"Alexa take a photo"

hehe

[indigo jetty]

It's an echo dot and a raspberry pi servo kit

[stuck moth]

awesome! I jus tpicked up an echo dot too

[indigo jetty]

Pretty sure there is a library for micro python for emulating a wemo plug

So custom devices connected to your dot

[stuck moth]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[indigo jetty]

I had my Christmas lights controlled by it last year

[abstract violet]

cool, those devices are not available at all in Canada

[indigo jetty]

not in Ireland either

But I'm a rebel and already had two 😂

[abstract violet]

one in every room!

[indigo jetty]

We have mail forwarding services that we can use

That are in Northern Ireland (which is in the UK) that then deliver to Republic of Ireland

So it's really handy for this kind of scenario

Like even that iron on ebay is £40 delivery to Ireland or £15 to the uk

And the mail forwarding is about £3.50

We use ours for spotify, tune in radio and timers

Nothing else

[abstract violet]

we do something similar, US/CA border here is close

[indigo jetty]

https://twitter.com/make/status/887708680694759425

Make: (@make)

TODAY! Join us for #Make:Live project build - #Arduino Traffic Predictor - 4pmPT https://t.co/QKHrKRoxgR @digikey

Twitter

I'm pretty excited about this, I designed the circuit and wrote the code for this 😃

By design the circuit i mean I told them to get a esp8266 feather and some neopixels and a level shifter 😛

[vast condor]

@weary trench I am a fan. I've made a couple projects using a Photon.

[faint glacier]

So set up a bit of an ARG for my fellow Utopia Descending PCs and pulled the trigger on it yesterday afternoon. I thought it sucked because the hook was extremely vague, but they said they had fun with it and some of them actually figured it out after I poked a few more hints to one or two of them. I actually roped a few of them into it. Got some good feedback and can't wait to plan out the next puzzles. 😄

[polar wraith]

I sure hope Microsoft's corporate network has enough bandwidth for me to join Show'n'Tell tonight. 😃

[stuck moth]

I'd hope it does @polar wraith

[polar wraith]

I dunno, Scott. 280 and change up and 790 and change down. I guess that's good enough. 😃

[stuck moth]

yeah, probably

[indigo jetty]

280 up

mine is about 330kb up ..

The comment section on the Make live stream is ... interesting

They could definitly do with a moderator or two

[abstract violet]

@polar wraith jellyyy!

@indigo jetty ooh! is it facebook only? where are you watching

[indigo jetty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvtBAbSF6fM

its also on youtube

Its kinda slow

pacing wise

[stuck moth]

we're ten minutes away from show and tell

[abstract violet]

ooh! are you gonna be on tanne 😄

[stuck moth]

yup yup

getting miced up now

I'll just be sitting in the chatrooms though 😛

[indigo jetty]

I would think Show and Tell will be more exciting (but dont tell Make I said that)

[abstract violet]

oh i thought you said "minced"

hehe @indigo jetty , can always have two tabs open.. one eye/ear per stream

[indigo jetty]

haha

I usuall watch the show and tell in the mornig in work

[abstract violet]

dual core multitasking

[dusty citrus]

I'm up for a good (.. checks topic ..) mincing.

[indigo jetty]

They arent switching camera...

they are talking about focusing the camera that is looking at the board

[dusty citrus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85pk33AIkE&feature=youtu.be

[indigo jetty]

but they havent switched camera

Have fun on Stream guys!

[dusty citrus]

Not sure that's the correct location to begin viewing if you're NOT a guest on the show.

[indigo jetty]

yeah it looks like it is

[stuck moth]

thanks @indigo jetty

[dusty citrus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85pk33AIkE

[stuck moth]

should be live

[dusty citrus]

It is.

[indigo jetty]

One more row down, 3 to go

[abstract violet]

Is there a pattern @indigo jetty or is it random atm

[indigo jetty]

it is red, green, blue repeat

but the fact it snakes makes that a little off putting

like going from left to right
0-9
19-10
20-29
30-39 etc

[abstract violet]

@viral spruce ahh! gotcha!

[indigo jetty]

Oh that's blurry

Bit better

[vast condor]

Last couple birthdays I've bought myself Adafruit stuff... You know what I'm buying this year? Ceiling fans.

Lol my life is essentially over.

[viral spruce]

@vast condor there's no reason you can't combine the two 😛

[vast condor]

@viral spruce I could a Z-wave enabled ceiling fan and add it to my home automation project. lol

[viral spruce]

🤔

sounds like a plan!

[vast condor]

I have a Z-wave bridge that uses a Raspberry Pi with a Z-wave GPIO Z-wave card to control everything.

https://razberry.z-wave.me/

[viral spruce]

@vast condor the nexia one?

oh!

[vast condor]

Yeah, pretty legit

Yeah to your "Oh!"not the Nexia comment. haha

[viral spruce]

I recently got an aliexpress electric starter for my jeep, it's pretty cool and has a good range.

but I want to turn the AC to different units/temps/fan speeds BEFORE I get in, I usually leave it off in the morning before I go on the train, then it gets hot during the day....may be a small project

[vast condor]

Yeah I'm not sure how you could accomplish that without some gaudy servos over the top of the nobs. I men I'm sure you could make it more discreet by getting real fancy and messing with the wiring... but if you mess up or try to sell the vehicle..

[viral spruce]

Yeah, I'm going to probably do a plate that sits on top of them with some servos. Power it with solar. I haven't gone too deep into the circuitry of the car yet, but I want to.

may look into the CAN bus

[bold turtle]

Depending on which jeep it is, the dash panel on those things is generally not logic-heavy, just a board with switch connectors

[lost condor]

Make a thermostat?

Though, depending on the age of the vehicle, all the knobs and switches may be physically actuating baffles and such

But if they're just electronic "under the hood" a neat project might be to make it a thermostat interface.

[viral spruce]

they are definitely not, thankfully. it's a new-ish one. has electronics

[lost condor]

PID for your car atmosphere. 😄

[viral spruce]

😄

[lost condor]

But seriously, that's a "better" UI than the normal one, generally.

[viral spruce]

yes, one could totally do that. I wonder if more fancy cars implement that type of control.

[lost condor]

Mine does

And it's not exactly fancy

But, were I to do remote start, it's nice because I know it would cool down to the correct temperature on its own.

[viral spruce]

that would be a great feature

[bold turtle]

Darnit, now I wanna know if you could shim into the existing wiring....

... @viral spruce which Jeep do you have?

you has fed my curiosity mogwai after it's relative midnight....

[viral spruce]

2005 wrangler, got it used a few weeks ago, it's my first car

[bold turtle]

Aww, Congrats!

[viral spruce]

thanks!

I like the DIY sprit among jeep owners, although some of the mods I see are a bit too much

[bold turtle]

@viral spruce 3-dial model?

[viral spruce]

YEP!

[bold turtle]

Huh... they're using pneumatics for the redirector

[viral spruce]

Really?

[bold turtle]

Sure as hell looks like it

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/l8kAAOSwT5xZS65V/s-l1600.jpg

that's the pigtail off the selector switch

There's also standard spade connectors on the back of the switch, but that really looks like a pneumatic tubeset

Fan control is straight up electrical

[viral spruce]

you know what that means...

[bold turtle]

Not sure on the temp selector.

@viral spruce Reverse Engineering Tiemz?

Well, worse to worse, if you broke the controller, you can get em off ebay for 150ish?

just be sure to get the one that knows how to deal with AC, and not the heater-only module

[viral spruce]

cheap parts are great

[bold turtle]

So, the question in my mind is.. "make it stealth, or make it UBER HACKY GEEEKERY on display for all to see"

Because that'd be reasonably-easy to print adapters for servos to grab either the knobs or the shafts themselves, and then remap that to buttonable control.

Dangit.. now I'm plotting, and it's ALL YER FAULT @viral spruce

[viral spruce]

I regret nothing

It's a really cool system to retrofit

[indigo jetty]

@viral spruce there are some Can bus devices on AliExpress, there is even a WiFi one

I was thinking about getting one for a project but I never did

It was suggested to me (aka I was told) that had to stop buying stuff for projects til I finished some 😂

I was thinking of making an alarm clock that checked your commute time and also checked if you had enough gas for the journey and adjusted the alarm clock automatically

I'd imagine the key needs to be in the car for the can bus to work though

(I was going to push the gas level to the alarm clock when I drove in)

[indigo jetty]

I've been given permission to a make video this weekend, kind of not sure what to make it on

Needs to be short!

I was thinking maybe controlling led lights with a mosfet and a esp8266

[river raft]

What is make?

[stuck moth]

@river raft its a magazine with a blog and such too

[river raft]

Kk

[stuck moth]

ladyada from adafruit was on a recent issue

[river raft]

I'ma go mess around with raspbian 😀

[stuck moth]

http://makezine.com/2017/06/13/open-source-ideals-engineering-genius-helm-adafruit-maker-revolution-manufacturing/

[river raft]

Cool

[stuck moth]

yup 😃 have fun with raspbian

[river raft]

Thanks!

I use a Chromebook for roms and downloading and I use a 7 year old Dell XPS for things like flashing raspbian to a SD card.

This setup works well but the problem is is that it takes long to download a 4. Gig file

[stuck moth]

are you using wifi or are you plugged into network?

[river raft]

I am using wifi

When I booted up raspbian for the first time I got this error

I need some help

I did not use noobs

Would that have been smarter

[indigo jetty]

Still top bidder on that weller solder station, just over a day left

[abstract violet]

Yaa! 😄

[indigo jetty]

I don't want to get too excited

It's too cheap, so it should be bid on more

[abstract violet]

It's been a while since i've bid on ebay, but yeah sometimes some people hawk specifically on items that are just about to end

and it goes up

[indigo jetty]

I have no idea if it's good, but there seems to be a Arduino boot camp course on udemy for free today

https://comidoc.com/arduino-bootcamp-learning-projects/

[abstract violet]

cool! thanks for the share 😄

[indigo jetty]

Np

[stuck moth]

@river raft whats it say? I can't read it

[river raft]

Can expand filesystem try raspi config
Tye re gui to get the gui

I think

Im cooking so I can't check

[indigo jetty]

Any mains in OW @abstract violet ?

I played a lot up to a couple of months ago

[abstract violet]

D.VA / Junkrat @indigo jetty

I play casually though, have played competitive but playing solo is tough on competitive.

[indigo jetty]

Reinhardt for me

I compd a bit

Mainly with a couple of friends

I got diamond last season

Haven't played since I bought playerunkowns battleground

[abstract violet]

have not heard of that, and oooH 😄

highest rank i have was gold 😃 last season was silver :p

it totally depends on when you play during the day and who you get to play with

[indigo jetty]

Yeah it can be toxic

[abstract violet]

do you play heroes too?

[indigo jetty]

No, I played a small bit of dota a few years ago

Wasn't a huge fan

I also don't have a huge amount of time!

Battlegrounds is great though!

[stuck moth]

@indigo jetty I'll probably try battlegrounds after I'm back from nyc

[river raft]

hey i notice you where talking about overwatch

thats what im playing on my pc not chromebook lol

[indigo jetty]

Give it a couple of games @stuck moth the first couple can be a bit odd

Especially if you die early

I would recommend going to not a city first 😂

[stuck moth]

yeah, I did watch a tips video on it

[indigo jetty]

I think I mentioned it, but I think it's an absolute case study in how adding simple mechanics can elevate a game where similar ones already existed

Like with only map it should be boring by now, but every game feels different due to your starting position, where the circle closes in, the different stuff you loot etc

[stuck moth]

yeah totally

[indigo jetty]

I spent about 40 mins looking for my silver wire on my desk

And on the floor

And I found it attached to the probes I out away after I took a picture of them last night

I may have been a little passive aggressive to my fiance about it too 😐

As she was in at my desk so I was blaming her!

Got outbid on that iron but I increased it

[abstract violet]

haha aw @indigo jetty - need to attach a GPS thing on that!

[stuck moth]

pretty!

[indigo jetty]

Two rows to go

Nothing compared to the 16 x 16 from last night's show and tell though!

[stuck moth]

so close!

[indigo jetty]

Yeah I'll be happy when I'm finished that part

I still need to fit the circuit into the frame

And fit a power jack

I might steal @lost condor idea of the rotary encoder for switching between modes

[lost condor]

Oh yeah

Did you want the code I use?

[indigo jetty]

Is there much involved in handling the rotary encoder? I assumed it wouldn't be hard

[lost condor]

Oh, I meant for making the pretty blinkenlights. But no, theres not much involved.

[indigo jetty]

I'll probably only have one

Oh yeah I'll take that when it's ready 😂

No rush though

[lost condor]

OK, hang on

[indigo jetty]

👍

[lost condor]

@indigo jetty What's your github?

Or hey, you know, I'll just make it public

[indigo jetty]

Witnessmenow is

https://github.com/witnessmenow

[lost condor]

https://github.com/jaswope/rgb-sousaphone

[indigo jetty]

Just as a BTW, I really recommend checking out bit bucket for your private stuff

I think some of what they do is nicer than githuv

And free private repositorys is pretty sweet

[lost condor]

I've used both, I prefer github for reasons. 😄

[indigo jetty]

Thanks!

[lost condor]

Doesn't github have free private repos now?

Or is it just unlimited private with a paid account

[indigo jetty]

Reminds you of stash in work (presumably)

[lost condor]

I don't recall.

[indigo jetty]

Don't think so

It wasn't free 3 or 4 months ago

[lost condor]

In any case, I have unlimited private repos in github, so, you know

[indigo jetty]

Interesting 😂

[lost condor]

Annnyway....

That code needs the FastLED library

[indigo jetty]

Cool

[lost condor]

And the Encoder library

And uh

(I wish there was a way to tell)

[indigo jetty]

Let me give the led part a quick go

[lost condor]

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff you can comment out

[indigo jetty]

Actually I have an encoder here too so I'll try it

[lost condor]

But most importantly, you have to configure your LEDs

So, led_config.h is meant to be autogenerated

I have a javascript file in there that generates it for concentric circles

But you'll probably want to do it for your giant rectangle

[indigo jetty]

I dont think I've ever seen an Arduino project with a moustache template file in it 😃

[lost condor]

Yeah...my goto is either JS or Ruby for personal projects...sorry

[indigo jetty]

JS head myself

I use mustache for a website I run

I have been tempted to do some work with on the ESP8266

[lost condor]

But, if you give me the number of LEDs you have, and the distance in mm between the farthest two LEDs in X and Y I can generate the file for you real quick

[indigo jetty]

Currently its 80

[lost condor]

Well, in a few minutes while I do the math

[indigo jetty]

but will be 100

[lost condor]

100 leds?

[indigo jetty]

yes

[lost condor]

10x10?

[indigo jetty]

yes

[lost condor]

Square or rectangle?

Wait, duh

OK, what's the length of the X and Y axes?

Best would be to measure from LED to LED, not edge of the box

[indigo jetty]

roughly 190mm x 190mm

using center of LEDs

[lost condor]

Cool, and where is LED #1?

[indigo jetty]

oh, this might get complicated

[lost condor]

Nah, I've planned for complicated

[indigo jetty]

0-9

top row

second row: 19-10

[lost condor]

Perfect

And so on from there.

[indigo jetty]

yeah repeating

snake like one might say

[lost condor]

serpentine

😄

"In the manner of Voldemort"

[indigo jetty]

As the kids of the internet would say these days SNEK like

[lost condor]

Alright, doing math, brb

[indigo jetty]

thanks!

just going to try out some sample code for the encoder to make sure I have it wired up right

[lost condor]

Welp, I'm too slow. Family time with the kiddo. I'm about halfway there on the rectangular codegen

I'll finish it up later tonight

[indigo jetty]

no problem!

Enoy

my kiddo is long asleep!

Enjoy#

hmm, just ran an example from the fast LED library, it looks like I havea few broken pixels

You can kind of see the 3 off colour ones here

None of them light up green and the one the right only lights up red

All 3 are ones I have soldered a power jumper to so I might have burnt out the leds with too much heat

I have some spare though

[abstract violet]

wow that's lookin brilliant!

[indigo jetty]

Thanks, yeah it looks really cool when it's animated like that

[faint glacier]

And in other news...

Roomie helped me out with it.

[indigo jetty]

That looks like my idea of hell!

[lost condor]

@indigo jetty https://pastebin.com/kwDT4hQ7

Replace the contents of led_config.h with that

Oh wait

https://pastebin.com/Ri83ds1N

Use that one. I had all the radius scaling off by half.

Protip: Don't use the diameter when you meant to use the radius.

[faint glacier]

@indigo jetty Trust me, it sucked.

But my idea for my character's costume calls for a full face helmet, so a form of my head giving me it's dimensions will make it all easier.

[lost condor]

@faint glacier What did you end up using?

[faint glacier]

Foil and duct tape. The final helmet will use foam.

[lost condor]

I meant for the molding. 😄

[runic elbow]

Duct tape fixes everything.

[lost condor]

Or wait, did you actually use foil and duct tape for the mold?!

[faint glacier]

I'm not using it to make a mold. I'm going to use this as is.

[lost condor]

Oh man

[faint glacier]

Yes. That is my head wrapped in foil and duct tape.

[lost condor]

That's fantastic

Meanwhile I'm sitting over here trying to figure out a cosplay idea that is as minimal as possible.

[runic elbow]

One of the guys from Star Trek. Just get a suit and BAM! Star Trek cosplay.

[lost condor]

Haha, not enough blinky lights

I have an idea, and it's not really cosplay, but it'll be cool to walk around in at a convention

Interactive game shirt.

[runic elbow]

Sounds GENIUS.

... Makes me think of that Halloween pumpkin tetris board.

Like, you could turn a pumpkin into a game of Tetris.

[viral spruce]

@lost condor minimal cosplay: cosplaying...as yourself

there's also this thing my sister showed me called "closet cosplay" where you cosplay a character using the clothes you already have. I've seen some really good ones

[faint glacier]

Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I think I'm making good headway.

I. Regret. Nothing.

[lost condor]

Looks hard to see through. 😄

[faint glacier]

That's because it's not the helmet. This is what I'm going to use to make the pattern for the helmet. Just finished stuffing it with plastic bags and other stuff and now I'm going to layer this with another layer of foil and duct tape, then cutting that off and transferring it to foam.

[viral spruce]

@faint glacier what are you cosplaying as (sorry if you already said it, catching up to the chat now)

[faint glacier]

It's a character concept for a LARP I'm a part of called Utopia Descending. The character is a cyborg and the costuming is heavily inspired by Daft Punk and the DJ Sona skin in League of Legends.

[viral spruce]

neat! are you going to do the daft punk light effects for it too?

[faint glacier]

The design is something I'm making up as I go along. And yes. The lighting effects (among other things) are why I'm on the Adafruit discord.

[viral spruce]

😄

free-hand cosplay design

[faint glacier]

More or less, yeah. The biggest part of the costume is a black bodysuit, so that's 90% of the work right there. Any "augments" I add on top of that are just gravy.

[spice moss]

when commanding your devices what have temperature sensors made by you from thermostat https://youtu.be/WQ0FZrc2lRA

[polar wraith]

Clearly we should have these at work! (I work for MIcrosoft....)

[tiny moat]

@polar wraith Bld 87?

[polar wraith]

@tiny moat Nope, I'm in 30.

[spice moss]

think adding Circuitpython devices what cortana can call to check temp

[indigo jetty]

@lost condor thanks again for the work last night, I haven't got a chance to run it yet but I'll let you know when I do

[lost condor]

@indigo jetty Let me know if you need any help. I fully expect it to not work out of the box.

[indigo jetty]

Haha, that's the spirit

[lost condor]

I know for a fact a couple of patterns will be broken

Because I CHEATED

[indigo jetty]

😱

[lost condor]

Rather than use math, I used which ring they were on.

[indigo jetty]

I probably have more work to do on your sketch too, I stripped out the display and pallette stuff

[lost condor]

Ooh, just the palette encoder, I hope

palettes.h is important

[indigo jetty]

I expected it to light up something

Ya

Just modified ino

[lost condor]

Nothing lit up? D:

[indigo jetty]

But I don't think so, this was last night so I probably did something stupid

[lost condor]

Well, if you're up to it this evening, I don't mind some screen sharing to figure out what went wrong

[indigo jetty]

BTW I tested putting a diode between 5v pin of my esp8266 and the leds and that worked grear

For not letting the USB even try power the leds

[lost condor]

Yeah, but the esp runs on 3.3 😄

Mine runs at 5v and I have exactly that coming in

I don't know that it'll tolerate a 0.6v loss

[indigo jetty]

Would it not run at 4.5?

Ya maybe

You can feed as low as 3.6 into the "5v" pin of my esp8266 board

[lost condor]

But yeah, it's what..quarter to 10 for you?

[indigo jetty]

It really should be labelled VIn

11

[lost condor]

Cool, let me know if you want me to take a look at the code to see why nothing happened.

[indigo jetty]

I'm just about to try out your stuff now

I'll serial print the code too

[lost condor]

Is this running on an esp?

[indigo jetty]

Well it compiled!

[lost condor]

That's good!

[indigo jetty]

I couldn't say much more than that cause there was no output really

[lost condor]

Hrmmm

Can you share the .ino?

And I guess just double check the pins too. 😄

I only mention that because I've done that before and spent hours troubleshooting

[indigo jetty]

ya, I have a blank current pallete I'd say is the issue

[lost condor]

Yep

Just comment out readPalette() in loop()

Well, let me see

Actually, you definitely shouldn't have a blank palette

[indigo jetty]

I removed bool pressed = false;

inline void readUseDefaultPalette()
{
if (!pressed && digitalRead(PIN_ENCODER_1_SWITCH) == LOW)
{
pressed = true;
useDefaultPalette = !useDefaultPalette;
writeDisplay();
}
else if (pressed && digitalRead(PIN_ENCODER_1_SWITCH) == HIGH)
{
pressed = false;
}
} too

just adding it back

[lost condor]

Yeah

How did it still compile?

[indigo jetty]

Also just a FYI, the led_config had a #require reather than a #include

[lost condor]

Hahaha

derp

Thanks

[indigo jetty]

np

I basically want useDefaultPalette to be true right?

[lost condor]

Yeah, but it should be by default.

[indigo jetty]

yeah it was actually

[lost condor]

Comment out readUseDefaultPalette() in loop() as well

You can probably comment out readGlitter too while you're at it

[indigo jetty]

uploading

woo

go something!

[lost condor]

Also, I have the pins configured for pullup, so you should connect the common pin to ground on your rotary encoder

[indigo jetty]

got something

[lost condor]

Something is better than nothing!

Now to see how terrible my math was

[indigo jetty]

it looks great

one of them looks emm

[lost condor]

Haha

Yeah, let me see

[indigo jetty]

3rd REichy

[lost condor]

Haha, the spiral one?

That's unfortunate

[lost condor]

Or is it red?

Haha

Yeah, that's the sprial one

[indigo jetty]

They are awesome man

[lost condor]

The spiral one will probably look better with another palette

[indigo jetty]

One thing I might need to change is some of the patterns are spawning from the center

[lost condor]

Oh! And I forgot, it's at 1/4 brightness right now

[indigo jetty]

But there is no center square

So it's using the bottom right of the 4 center squares

[lost condor]

Yeah, I just realized why that is

I accidently shifted all my math by one