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If you want it to go eye-blinding, there's a setBrightness(64) in setup() you can change
Change it to 0-255
Yep, I need to fix the math, hang on
The startup pattern and second pattern shold be the "best" looking
Second should be stripes
Well, wavesish
If it's weird and blue, that's the wrong direction
Yeah, meant to mention that
let me add a serial print for the pattern name
I see you have a nice getName method ๐
Yep. ๐
It uses a four char buffer because of display size. ๐
Generating the new config, hang on
SEcond one seems to be VERT unless my encoder is skipping
That should be right
Drat paste is too long for in here.
That should fix the center
Since there are n-1 spaces between n objects.
(cough)
I guess I need to make it more modular for controls and displays, huh.
I have a single button interface as well for the hat. Quick press changes the pattern, long press toggles glitter.
thats a cool idea
just trying now
I was worried there for a minute it stopped working just a dodgy connection to the power supply
Yeah, my heart always skips a beat when that happens
Mainly because I don't want to solder all that again.
ESP8266 has no hardware SPI pins, but it seems to be keeping up fine
(FASTLED compains)
Oh, heh. It probably complains because it doesn't recognize the hardware
yeah thats perfect!
Awesome!
It's probably reverting to the slowest version of everything. Not sure how smooth it is for you
But, still, glad it works
its pretty smooth
It runs at >60fps on my trinket. ๐
The esp8266 does Wifi stuff inbetween loops and I thought that would impact but it seems to be fine
But FastLED is super aptimized for AVR
I dont notice anyhting
Let me very slowly upload to GFYcat or something
I barely even now Miinesota (sp?) is a place
know
This is one of the examples that came with fast led that I uploaded earlier
Neat
My patterns are slightly less optimized than that one because they are designed to run on an arbitrarily shaped display
So the pattern render function takes the x,y,r,and theta of the pixel
When you have a square, you can skip a lot of that
Though, you can still see some rounding errors in that gif that my technique avoids (at the expense of storage space)
The rounding errors look like "flickering"
Looks like the only one that shouldn't work is the audio burst pattern, but that's OK because it'll take some doing to get a mic hooked up with that 1v analog pin
Challenge accepted ๐
I may aswell try it
just to see
but ya the range is surely terrible
I assigned row and column to "ring" and "ring_pos" respectively for each LED
Thanks so much for the help
So I think it'll just end up looking like a big bar graph
I didnt know what I was going to go for the patterns
Glad to be of help. If I may suggest, try the "clouds" pattern with the "rainbow" palette.
That's my favorite ambient display
I think i might mess around with the encoder code
It's like a tie dye lava lamp
so that it changes with a spin
and pressing the button switches between the encoder being for pattern or pallete
Yeah. Or, you know, use the wifi. ๐
I'd love to ๐
but i think doing anything that listens for connections will mess up the animations
So, the nice thing about these animations is they're all time based
So while the frame rate may slow, the animation will still be accurate
And if you use MQTT, then no need to listen for connections
just a poll here and there
my end goal for this is going to make a front end hosted on a server that communicates with the ESP8266, probably via MQTT ok where you can draw on it
I threw it in the frame there just to see what it looks like
(although I'll probably use a white frame)
Nice!
That's ROUT or RIN
(Radial Out, Radial In)
New as of last week, really like how they look.
Going to add the rectangular code generation to my pregen script now.
Yeah the are awesome
They#
I owe you some consultation some time anyways! I have moderate esp8266 knowledge and not a lot else whatever that's worth to you ๐
It looks like you're getting some flicker there
I think you mentioned you weren't using a logic shifter
I think it looks better than that IRL
I can try a level shifter when I'm working on it again
Thanks for the catch with the #include. I was stuck in dynamic code land I guess.
But yeah, glad the math worked out (and it only took two tries) ๐
Well three, if you count the one that I caught ahead of time.
After I'm finished making the project I need to make a video for it
I have hours and hours and hours of footage
I dont know what I'm going to do with it
I normally make videos on small projects!
I need to start working on my learn guide for my project too
The usual
It is almost 4am
Taking care of all the stuff I haven't had time for this week
Tomorrow Brian is going to pay for today's brians mistakes
Cleaning house and organizing code. ๐
Man, what has tomorrow Brian ever done for you, really?
All he ever does is make you feel guilty about today
Nothing yet anyways
I would have liked to have finished the LED matrix but I'm out of Neopixels
I gave the left over ones from the one I bought to a buddy at work so I wont get them til Monday
(I broke 3 of them)
Yuck, that sucks
Ah its ok
I need to release a youtube video this weekend anyways
I havent released one in about a month
I dug this bad boy out of storage there, I got a new soldering wand for it
I bought it from China nearly 10 years ago now
Aaaaaah! Dozed off in an awkward position and woke up with a cramping right hamstring....
Not a good way to wake up!
@indigo jetty and @lost condor seeing you two work together makes me so happy we made this discord. ๐
Haha
I'm just happy to have people to geek out with
My daughter and I just adapted the tuba code to her Uke as well
It needs a better name than "RGB Sousaphone" because it's rather general purpose.
@lost condor I can't wait to see claire on the show and tell more. ๐
names are hard too
the testing software I did is still private because we haven't settled on a name
There are two hard problems in programming. Naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
๐
@stuck moth probably not as happy as me about it!
@lost condor i think that project being called Rgb sousaphone is right, but I think you could extract the led stuff into a library and name that something else
Maybe "LED Smart Patterns" or LSP for short
The only thing I'm unsure about is how to pass the config in
Also I think you are right about flickering, it seems to flicker the further away from the psu it goes so my gut is it's power related
Starting the vcc at the center of the matrix will hopefully help
insulation is the key for it
As the ledInfo is just a const it could be passed in from userland on setup
does it draw too much power?
or is the current for it const as ledinfo is const
could be that power is in the treshold when it go on and off
@indigo jetty Hey, late to the party here. How about using a JSON formatted file for the config? That way, if you or anyone wants to extend it to be web-controllable it's all ready for the user input....
The config is an array of structs that represents some form of witch craft that @JonXP created
That may not be the technical explanation, but it's the best I got ๐
The patterns are relatively short functions that use that data to decide what colour they should be
Based on said witch craft
I will be developing a type of something to fast led converter alright
For the Web control
Normally I would use json, but it's probably a lot more memory hungry than an array of structs
Will have to see though
Yeah, it would be. I was just thinking of simplifying the back end-to-web-service interface.
Yeah I think it will need to be sent as json
But on a as needs basis
So only send an update for changed ones
And the uC updates its struct array
Not sure though
Will have to see how it goes
Makes sense. The devil, as they say, though, is in the details....
Yeah, I think it was Mike Tyson that said everyone had a plan till they get punched in the face
Will have to see what punches are waiting for me ๐
LOL. The Marines say something similar - no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
An appropriate sign at work....
Awesome looking! Is it diy?
I don't think so. If it is, they did a fabulous job. I was looking at the ight sockets....
well technology can be seen as magic
Here's a note i created for myself
Check the date, my project has been a long time coming!
long time but it's good
https://hackaday.com/2017/07/22/rogeorge-attacks-a-pulse-meter/ some very in-depth rev'engineering of a pulse meter
@polar wraith @indigo jetty The array is position information about the LEDs stored in PROGMEM. It includes the cartesian and polar coordinates for each LED in both real and 8-bit scaled space. It's precalculated for speed reasons (inverse tangents aren't super fast on AVR ๐).
@lost condor good idea storing positions in flash
@viral spruce It was a necessity ๐ 144 * 13 bytes is a lot of RAM.
This project has been a fun study in memory management. Like when I found out C++ inheritance wouldn't work for me, since virtual functions add 4 bytes per function per instance
I was really surprised about that
Though I'm basically violating YAGNI right now. I can get by with five bytes, and the targeted project resolution is too low to make the 8-bit rounding errors apparent.
@lost condor would you have interest in putting the led code into an Arduino library? I wouldn't mind doing/helping with the work around it if you wanted. There isn't much to it
That would be fun. I'd need to do some work to make it more general purpose.
Like have the option for the PositionInfo to not be in PROGMEM
And make the code proper C++, not my insane version of it.
Haha
If it works it works ๐
As the old saying goes, if you aren't at least a little bit embarrassed by what you are releasing you are releasing too late ๐
Haha
Well, honestly, I want a better way to manage the code in palettes.h and patterns.h
I'm using typedefs, macros, and static class members when I'd prefer to be using inheritence.
However, the memory overhead was surprising and significant doing it the "right" way.
This leads me to believe that I'm fundamentally misunderstanding something about the right way to do what I'm doing.
@lost condor just a thought, you could maybe store reference to a function as a pointer for each pattern
So rather than it be a class, it could be a struct
Don't know if that makes sense
Not sure on the impact of memory of doing that
That's what I did. ๐
Are they not each a class?
I'm cooking at the moment and just was thinking about it so I didn't even check! ๐ฑ
I thought they were each a class with static methods
Ide cables, Rocking it old school
Yep.
I don't understand how this didn't make everyone go insane.
I can't figure out how to put th drive in slave mode.
All I wanted was an extra drive.
Ok, I think I got it.
@indigo jetty They are each a class for organization reasons, but the array is actually just function pointers to the static methods.
There's a macro and typedefs handling all that.
๐
sigh I envy <@&327289013561982976> 's tardis.
@indigo jetty I pushed a fix for the glitter algorithm. It was all sorts of flawed. See https://github.com/jaswope/rgb-sousaphone/commit/0f6b77d6f4ce04a8ea74917fdc4e4cc3e670f463 for the patch. It should make it much more usable, especially on higher speed systems.
And I guess I'll go by my github name in here.
FWIW, I made a postbag video on YouTube. I'm going to try making videos some more, but I'm admittedly not good at it. I definitely need a wider angle lens for my camera.... https://youtu.be/kFa0tVtrMV8
My first electronics mailbag video. I already know 1) there's a bad cut 2) I need to stay centered in the frame better and 3) I shouldn't "um" as much.
Wide angle lenses defintely make the job easier
My problem is always getting decent sound.
I don't want to spring for Adobe Premiere, but I've yet to find anything else that was any good at syncing up off camera sound
Yeah, @jaswope, I'm trying to avoid spending a mound of dollars on video equipment and software. I'd rather spend those funds on electronics....
@polar wraith cool video! and yes, lenses can cost ... $$$$$
@polar wraith I have a Lumix with a Leica 24-70 f2.8 that shoots 4k, that range is good on wide / 75mm for portrait stuff. Have you looked at mirrorless cameras? (Sony etc)
Hey guys
On a website I am building, I have this element with a specific color
http://rgb.to/rgb/0,255,55
It looked really good, but only when nightshift is turned on to full warmth on the mac. Is there a way I can find this color but with nightshift turned off? Thanks.
oh you shoot nikon too @polar wraith ๐
@abstract violet - not yet (mirrorless cameras) though I'm going to start looking. My entry cost is about 600, apparently, since that's how much the 18mm lens would cost.
yeah, my wide angle is 1.3k...
for video though, have you not looked at the older non-af lenses?
Oh, didn't even think of that. As long as it has the F bayonet I'm good.
you'd want it manual anyway and some of the lenses from years past that are made of metal can be had for less than a price of a new ED lens
yeah! thats whats cool about nikon vs. canon, is the backlog of lenses you have access to
I have a ton of glass (I used to shoot sports professionally). My favorite is the 70-200 AF VR.
Sigma's ART series has been getting great bang-for-buck reviews but those arent in wide angle yet...
yeah my favourite and also my least favourite to carry is my 70-200 VRII f2.8
I had to wear wrist braces to sleep after a day of shooting with it
It gets heavy but it's a fabulous lens!
I do portraits, prolly my most flattering portrait lens
I shot the Volvo Ocean Race for Volvo using a 200-400 ED AF VR I got from NPS.
ooh! Yeah i've wanted to shoot more action stuff
Freaking three foot long lens.
I used a mono. And a strap when hanging out of the chopper. ๐
Errr? Adafruit just went live....
where?
Twitch, but it won't stream for me. The stream hangs in the Axe ad.
Thanks @abstract violet - that's what I did...
@polar wraith Just watching yout video now
Angle isn't too bad
I would recomend listing the things you talk about in the description
Ah, good idea! I'll do that!
@polar wraith waiting for my nextion to arrive as well xD
Most of the post bags I see are on a fairly plain surface like a cutting board, it might be good to try see how it looks
haha, that was a pretty good MEEAAH NOT THAT BAD
those self healing ones ๐
Ok, good idea. It'll help to avoid the visual clutter.
Yeah, Dave Jones cracks me up!
@polar wraith Dave Jones is great! I love his podcast with Chris Gammell
@brianl - It's the one Noe recommended, so I just bought one on his suggestion.
and the sound from your new video is much better
Thank you! I know there are things to improve. Second one will be much better.
I'm hoping to do one tomorrow
simple enough one
I have only recently starting watching EEVblog videos
I like them
@indigo jetty http://theamphour.com/
you'll love The Amp Hour then!
cool!
One of your dogs is not happy in this video ๐
haha
"dog queiting function"
The Amp Hour and Embedded (http://embedded.fm/) are good 'pods...?....'casts...?
gotta be casts i think ...
๐ค
Your obviously a big AVE fan too judging by the picture
or is his channel picture taking from something else?
BUT I do like AvE's content as well. His teardown of the $400 Juice machine was highly entertaining..and also SUPER informative
FAACK
that thing was very over engineered, but it was super impressive
I think it cost that at release, yeah.
insane
It's been lowered to $400, though.
I remember people on reddit hypothesizing that it was really well made when it came out, and then AvE did a teardown and showed that was 100% correct
^^^ missed something. AvE?
Hes a canadian youtuber
@polar wraith youtuber, does electronics stuff but primarily machining
snap
Ah cool. I'll go search him/her up.
I dunno. Dave can be ... blunt. ๐
We should publish an "electronics/maker YouTube playlist."
Dave Jones, Julian Illet, Adafruit ๐ , Big Clive.
Micah Elizabeth Scott, too!
I feel that way with tony d. his voice is great.
@viral spruce MES has a great introduction. I love that LED pyramid.
Have not heard of Micah will check them out tomorrow
She's quite in-depth in her videos, but she does live stream a lot of reverse engineering (which I like a lot)
Cool
Id love to try streaming but my Internet isn't really up to it
This was a bit of my day today
harbor freight?
I wall mounted the component drawers to get them off the shelf
The compenent drawers?
We don't have harbour freight here, they are from a shop called Aldi
I had most of them already
But they were one the shelf so I couldn't put anything on the shelf
(Aldi is a hard shop to explain, they have specials every week, where it could be tools this week, clothes next week, camping him gear after that)
@indigo jetty - I like the wall mounted component drawers! Those are really nice!
I'm not sure if there is a straight or level line anywhere in that picture but it works anyway
I really like those red and white lunchboxes you can see
They are a good size for a breadboard (I mainly use half size) and there is enough height that the wires fit in
I had to go back and look... Yeah, those look nice.
@polar wraith if you're in the us, these are what I have (wall mount-able) https://www.harborfreight.com/40-bin-organizer-with-full-length-drawer-94375.html
harbor freight always has that 20% off coupon as well floating around
@viral spruce I'm totally buying those at payday! I have Jameco drawers stacked on my bench right now....
westworld season 2 trailer just came out!
@viral spruce I'm waiting for GoT tomorrow night...
ahhh, I WAS watching GoT then I watched the first season of westworld and was hooked
I'll go watch a few episodes with the foreknowledge that I might be watching WestWorld all day tomorrow. ๐
I'd rec. you start on Ep1, it's a VERY well-written show imo
That's what I'll do then.
I mean, I LOVED lost and this is the closest I'll get to that again in a show.
oh, another streamer I like is hedgeberg (https://www.twitch.tv/hedgeberg) who is live rn talking about OS dev
westworld is pretty cool @polar wraith , have you seen all the episodes?
I've seen zero episodes. Going to start shortly. ๐
o/ @heavy cobalt what are ya doing in eve ๐
Harbor Freight is a great weekender warrior tool supplier. Most of their stuff is...adequate. At a reasonable price. I like to say, it's a great place to first buy a tool you're unsure if you'll be using it a lot.
If you wear out a HFT tool, then it's usually worth getting a better model. Otherwise, if you use 2-3 times a year, you saved money instead of buying contractor's grade.
Personally, I love yard sales, flea markets, and Craigslist. Usual "buyer beware" applies, but you can find some stellar deals if you're patient and willing to haggle.
Got a 1970s Craftsman table top chop saw with beefy stand for $5. No, that's not a typo. Five smackeroos. Person selling it knew what it was worth, but didn't have the physical strength to lug it around nor the desire to use it anymore.
Nice! I have no place to put a chop saw, but nice!
Neither do I, but Dad does ๐ Made his day, that's for sure. And I always can come home to use it.
Yup, that'd sure be handy for my rover....
But yard sales are great like that....but you can be taken for a ride, paying more than retail for something beat up -- or worse, stolen. Gotta be smart about it.
And they're great for project ideas -- old children's keybaords for pitch bending, project cases/enclosures, motors from some children's toys, etc.
I love how #general-chat is more #ontopic than #general-tech. ๐
Is that a TO-220 LDO?
@indigo jetty How many lights will you have on it?
Not many, maybe 50
I'll count now
60
But it should work up to pretty high
The mosfet is rated for a lot of current
But could maybe do with a heatsink at that stage
I kind of don't know where this belongs (if it belongs on discord at all!)
Dim not working, but the rest is good
I'm surprised how responsive it is
Dim seems to leave the pin in a bad state, i haven't really used analog write before so I need to read up on it
this is totally offtopic https://mspoweruser.com/forget-super-mario-bros-hololens-powered-real-life-mario-kart-real-killer-app/
We recently posted about a developer recreating a level from the iconic Super Mario Bros in real life using the Microsoft HoloLens, and while that looked great there is a limit to how much fun one person can have by themselves. Enter stage left HadoKart, an attraction at Japanese VR-focussed 3rd-Planet gaming centre, where they โฆ
noopkat is streaming https://www.twitch.tv/noopkat
@polar wraith i missed your question earlier, it's a esp8266 01, a micro usb breakout, a lm1117 (if I remember right, it's a 3.3v regulator anyways) and then a IRLB8721 mosfet
Thanks, @indigo jetty
@abstract violet Just chilling sorry didn't saw the notification
hehe s'all good @heavy cobalt , station camping :P?
@abstract violet jajaja nah some missions salvaging you know another day in high sec xD
@heavy cobalt how long have you been playing?
Started 2012 but stop playing like two years.
@heavy cobalt just high sec since? or have you gone elsewhere
@abstract violet have been lowsec and nomad on wormholes for a while. Like very much the exploration side
@heavy cobalt ah cool! 2008 here, but have been on and off since.. mostly off for the past few years except to skill train..
@abstract violet yeah, with the new omega change having skilled accounts really makes a difference.
@heavy cobalt what do you fly mainly?
@abstract violet For exploring I have an astero, for missions a drake, and a crow for speed
@heavy cobalt Draaaaaaake!!! I used to run Lv3-lvl4's/PVP in a drake.. astero is pretty! fancy!-- and crow is an inty right? ๐
@abstract violet Right! Jajaja yeah drake also useful on sleeper wh areas
@heavy cobalt .. doesn't that use up a lot of a wormhole's bandwidth? โ have you tried a tengu?
@abstract violet I'm in process of learning all of tengu skills almost 15 days for it. Once I have it I think I'll spend some time on wh
@heavy cobalt I ran a WH corporation and built a rorqual inside a C3 that had a static C4.. do you play in a corp?
@abstract violet not really, nice setup there, nice living inside?
@Rigyu#1552 was nearly awoxed by a corp director so we evacuated everything and left it for 0.0
You need to manage it at another castle.
@river raft hm?
\Splash// Can you believe it. Adafruit said they would deliver my package on Monday, which was fine. But what arrived yesterday, two days early??? The Adafruit package. TWO days early. If this keeps up I'm just going to have to order EVERY week!!! :)
Wooo, check it out, a school of minnows. See ya.....
@polar wraith how are you finding the new multimeter? I'm thinking of getting it maybe
There seems to be a version with a thermometer attachment too which looks interesting
@indigo jetty I haven't actually fired it up yet. I've been getting ready for my Hack A Thon project.
No problem, when is that starting?
This morning. The team is designing an open source radio interferometer (radio telescope)
Exciting!
Sounds like a much more exciting day in work than mine
At least mind is nearly done
@indigo jetty is your new video up?
Nope!
Ran out of time!
I'll probably try do some tonight but I really doubt I'll get it done either
I got the project done (at least a first version) but I haven't started putting the video together at all
Oh I thought you had one for Sunday, thought I missed it
I had permission to make one but i didnt get it done in time
"permission" isnt quite right
I fixed the AnalogWrite issue I was having with the ESP8266
It looks like to use it like a digital pin after you do an analogWrite you first need to analogWrite 0 to it
@indigo jetty what were you trying to do?
Python and Go have ruined me. I keep forgetting my semicolons in the Arduino ide
@elfin wave YES! I've been doing the same
although, you can do semicolons in python
O.o you can?
Made some good progress on the code I was working on. Taking the streaming radio project from Adabox004 and adding the LCD from 003 to display song info. Except that's actually kinda involved, so it's been baby steps.
I'll write something up somewhere once it's done but you have to pass a header saying you want the metadata, parse the header for a value N and then every N bytes read in a metadata string instead of audio data, then start the count over.
Cool stuff. I started down that path for a javascript thing at one point, but realized after a bit that my source wasn't actually setting the metadata. ๐
Haha sorry. The new name matches my githubbing (rather than my gaming)
@lost condor haha I like that, "Githubbing"
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@abstract violet
It's a Web remote for the lights in my Daughters room
Dim want working before, if I set analog write the value on the pin wasn't changing when I did a digital write
Oooh!
Nice
@indigo jetty I wonder if it is possible to set up a server so that a url resolves to the ip address?
There is a couple of different ways you could approach that
There is a multicast Dns library (that seems to have originally been written by adapeep Tony D!)
But it seems like it requires you to have something installed on your device
(bonjour on a Windows machine)
I think there might be DNS settings in the router that you can set
It's not a pi, it's a Mikrotik, but you can set it up to do all sorts of stuff
It's not exactly consumer grade
Let me check
Yay!
Thanks for the suggestion @hollow oasis
You are welcome
This was my previous solution ๐
I had it sending me a telegram message on start up
It does get the same ip all the time, but i was trying a couple of different devices
Hahaha that's a pretty smart solution actually
Have you used Telegram on the esp8266 much?
O.o you got it on the ESP8266?
Yeah!
This is my baby (don't tell my human baby)
It's on the library manager too
Ooooh dang!
If you are used to telegram bots its a little slow compared to one running on an actual server
Well that solves the problem of needing an interim server for the bot
But for sending a message on an event or messaging it a command it's really good
Very very nice
Let me know if you have any questions on it
I definitely will
It's pretty easy to set up I hope
An introduction to the Universal Arduino Telegram Bot Library available on the Arduino Library manager or on Gtihub. If you have any questions please leave a...
That's one of my first videos, the pace is a little slow but it gives an overview of the libraries features
You should link it on the github page!
I should
I'm making a new one soon
And writing it up as a learn guide
It was the first thing I tried to do when I got an esp8266
I like you have push notifications. I remember that the python library for telegram broke if you listened for too long > 1h
I've had it running for weeks on a devices without issues, but I'm definitely using too much Arduino strings
So it could be made more efficient
Yeah for the project in the pictures I'm not even listening for messages, I just send the ip in the setup and that's it
That is really neat though
Like usually I have to discover it either on an OLED or through Serial
Or peer into my router
Thanks!
I would say that's a use case you can point to ๐
Pretty much. It really depends on where you are.
Those of my friends who use it have me as the only contact, since it is the fastest way to reach me
:p
Haha
But in other places the use is almost like 50%
I did a bit of work on bots on it using nodejs, I think it's such a powerful interface
Some of the things you can do with it are amazing
I was backing up a database using a bot for a while
I had a cron script that would tar up the dB file and send it to a chat using curl
Worked amazing
And they are all still there ๐ฑ
If you are into UK soccer I wrote a bot that would take all the goals clips on r/soccer and post them to a channel
I hacked it together as my first bot and it's still going strong ๐
Hahaha wow! That's a lot of work
It actually wasn't bad!
A telegram bot for getting goal highlights from soccer games
But turns out that since the switch is two steps away, I never really used it
Haha
I wonder if one can write a news aggregator bot and feed you news in trickles
I spent a good bit of time making a game for it, that was pretty fun but it was too complicated to play
Oh?
It was basically cards against humanity with gifs
Hahahaaa
I doubt it's still uo
Yeah seems to be not running
You nearly needed me in the game with you to explain it all ๐
I must open source it actually
Sounds pretty complex!
You would add the bot to a group, and then open a chat directly with the bot
It would post "my reaction when I get the latest Adabox" or Something
And you would message the chat directly a gif
And when everyone had submitted it would anonymously post the gifs in the group chat
And you would vote for your favourite
We even built a site that would display the top used gifs and most recent winning combinations etc
It was a real lesson in get some feedback early on before committing
3 of us spent the cuts of 2 full time weeks on it
And had about 20 users ๐
We had done some play testing, but always with one of us
Sigh, I can only imagine the crappy comments someone popular gets
It would be OK other than the "..... WHY"
anybody pick up splatoon 2 for the switch?
I played the first level this morning and liked it
@hollow oasis the static DNS entry works!
one problem with it is Chrome doing a google search if it doesnt recognise the URL
so it needs to be a valid URL basically to trigger the DNS lookup
are you mucking around with hostfiles?
http://vigilantcupcake.com/ on Windows makes it easy
(I used to work with the guy who wrote that. Gasmask is a good OS X alternative, and then if you're on linux and need one I can find that too)
A level beyond that I guess, I'm adding a static entry to my devices Dns server (my router) to resolve a specific dns request to an internal ip address
That way any device on my network will have that mapping
I love the name of that website though!
Yeah it was Benl suggestion, I hadn't even thought of it!
@here we are now a Discord partner and have https://discord.gg/adafruit
yeah for four or five weeks old
what are the benefits
custom splash screens too I think
we've got those and emojis in the works
I
I'm looking forward to a smoky the blue smoke monster emoji
Is adafruit using discord for internal chat as well ? we (as a company) are looking to get off hipchat
and while slack is better i'm not married to it...
I might even like discord better than slack
^Agreed
and you can't host your own, right? I think that's one of hipchat's pros
The repeating message bug is a deal breaker for a business I would say
I've never seen that in another messaging client
@upper fox we are on hipchat internally as well
Every time i edit my previous message with regix-ish syntax i die a little inside
it always surprised me that it works
I like the fact that you can use three ticks ` to delineate code blocks.
Hello world!
@polar wraith how was the hackathon?
it's nearly slacks formatting
yeah thats the only one that doesnt work
which bothered me for a bit
except then i though about someone doing\
For a chat client aimed at gamers, it's surprisingly robust.
Discord is KILLING IT
that could be bad
I wish them the best of luck
@upper fox its highlight.js
Neither of those look different on my phone
Same here Brian
this is already leaps ahead of hipchat
A decent working app doesn't seem to be either ๐
I am very surprised how feature full it is though
Well, to be fair, discord works rather well on my android phone and ipad... far better than skype -ever- did
It's not a million miles away from being a slack competitor
As soon as they figure out how to monetize it within that market
A couple of things, the repeating message bug when in low cell coverage is awful. Losing your input if you rotate your screen is kinda bad
Also related to low signal, I'll have a push notification that somebody said something and I'll open the channel and it takes ages to load what that person said!
Ah i haven't hit any of them, mainly because i never rotate :) nor do i get into low cellular and open discord. But yeah, that could be a huge pain
East coast US (I think) obviously has better cell infrastructure than the middle of Ireland ๐
Geographical stability is one thing we have going for us
@indigo jetty It's all week, so still working on it.
๐
@grave crest Hurricane Sandy was terrible in NY, especially out on LI
Evening, fellow nerds.
W00t! Got my tone detection code working. Got the test program for the tone generation working on the Pi. Now all I gots to do is put them together.
That's awesome
@faint glacier Oooh! I'm curious how it'll sound like!
What are you using for audio input to the Pi @faint glacier ?
Mic hooked up to a teensy that does the pitch detection
Ahhh, OK
@viral spruce I was in NJ near the meadowlands. And I do IT work at client sites in the region -- it was a nightmare getting around the days after.
@grave crest i can imagine! let's hope nothing happens again this year (or many many years to come, fingers crossed)
@indigo jetty have you used https://github.com/pfalcon/picoweb in a project before (curious)
I've never used micropython, so no ๐
@indigo jetty my bad, I thought you have toyed around with ESP8266 and mp
It's on my very long todo list ๐
Having a child has been detrimental to my time for hobby projects ๐
Jeez
Sorry
@indigo jetty I mean, JEEZ we get it ๐ hehe s'all good man --
@indigo jetty I found it quite easy to get started, just a matter of what to do with it
@indigo jetty followed the adafruit getting started with micropy tut, like 20 mins?
๐
I must send a few more messages about hobby project time ๐
would actually be interesting to see performance comparisons between micropython/circuitpython/etc..
Yeah that would be interesting
or at least pros/cons between different things you'd wanna dew
@abstract violet performance will vary with the microcontroller more than the implementation of micropython
a running list of differences is here: https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython#differences-from-micropython
@stuck moth yeah true
they are more similar than they are different
Microsoft employees and interns will come together to learn, share, and create during One Week, July 24โ28, 2017. Weโre already gearing up for the main eventโour global Hackathon. Plus, Expo, Give Fest, and Science Fair will certainly keep us busy. Itโs one of the greatest yearly culminations of #MicrosoftLife and our culture at the company. โฆ
(my project is an open source radio telescope)
no wait, you get free bagels?
Lots of free stuff. ๐
Where do I apply ๐
video editing is hard
Yes it is. Not something I enjoy.
This video is a lot more edit heavy than any other one I've made
and its just not fun
I dont know that I'm going to do about the LED matrix video
I'm deifnitly not going through hours and hours of footage!
I also started recording with OBS recently as it lets me see my webcam image in fullscreen (which logitech software doesnt allow) but my settings must not be right as its a little frame ratey
You mean it stutters?
Hmmm, interesting.
It should be about 30.
I think the NTSC frame rate is 29.97 (?)
Yeah my settings were werid
I was recording at the same quality as my "stream"
which I dont do
I'll try it out tomorrow maybe
Ok
what worse about all the editing is that I dont think it will be one of my better videos, which seems kind of a waste to be spending all this time on it. But I guess it's a learning experience
@indigo jetty keep at it m8, the possibility is there for it to be better than you think ๐
I think I might change the scope of the video to try get it released earlier. Do this video on working with the esp8266 01 and then do the lights as part of the next video
There is definitely a short video worth of stuff on the first, will make the light video shorter too
What IDE for embedded dev do you guys use @night crescent ?
@hollow oasis I use atom for everything. not really an IDE though
I prefer separate tools rather than one monolithic one
I use VisualMicro for Visual Studio. It doesn't actually provide too much help, but it prevents having to wait till compile time to catch simple mistakes.
I still use the Arduino IDE for programming though, it seems to produce smaller binaries out of the box, and I don't have any issues writing the program.
Not that I'm at adafruit, just thought I'd chime in. ๐
I mostly use Arduino ide too, but I really shouldn't
I use atom for everything else
I tried Atom but ran into lots of bugginess on Windows 10. Sooo, I usually use vi. ๐
I haven't used it much on Windows 10 but it seems to be working OK for me (mac is my main dev machine)
I'm on mac too
Vi, you madman
LOL @indigo jetty - 30+ years of muscle memory....
I know how to get by in vi, but I couldn't even imagine using it as my main editor
I'm not even 30 years on the planet!
why is compressing a gif so hard?
@indigo jetty I started using vi in 1984 when I was helping write the TCP stack for BSD 2.9....
its a screencap so it should be super straightforward
@stuck moth What's the problem with compressing?
I was minus -3 at that time, not overly concerned about tcp
LOL
the gif size is either gigantic or has artifacts
Ahhh. Perhaps the GIF is already at a high entropy, so "compressing" actually expands the file size
(compression algorithms tend to take advantage of entropy "space" in the source file....)
Gif is a bad format for compression right?
Hmmm, not that familiar with the MOV format. I know that compressing a jpg, for example, will make the compressed file larger.
I know very little about it, but if a you had a 10 second video that was all black, the video would realise nothing had changed and it would be tiny
Gif is just a collection of images
yeah, thats kinda what I expect here. most of the image is identical in all of the frames
They don't know about each other, so each frame needs all the story
Interesting. It should be compressible, then.
gif can do diffs across frames
I thought that was the advantage of the newer html5y formats
That feeling when you are trying to finish work for the weekend and there is someone else's failing unit test...
I hear ya. I'm waiting on a tech to come fix my work laptop, so kind of limping along until he gets here. I feel like I'm not accomplishing anything this week....
I'm just going to delegate
DevOps, man.
I think your husband and @polar wraith are crazy people
I use it when im on my raspberry pi's
have started using visual studio code, i kinda really like it :3
Yeah it's nice OK, it's very similar to atom
I dont recall what issue i was having with atom + platform.io though, that made me try out vscode
I think its with an arduino nano
Trying to resist the temptation to buy/build a CNC milling machine. Especially since there's an OtherMill in the campus maker space I can use for free (modulo the cost of FR1 boards for milling PCBs).
๐ peer pressure
I would love access to one
I've never seen a vulfine display before.. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/diy-wearable-computer-google-glass-raspberry-pi-instructions
This is off topic, but when in Rome
The original monster (energy drink) is pretty awful
was it made of real monsters?
It would probably taste better if it was
same, i like oblina and ipkis
THe pink dude was my fave
Don't remember any names
Nickelodeon made some weird stuff back then
Looks a little dodgy, @indigo jetty
The best kind of improvisation is a dodgy one
what are you powering @indigo jetty
It's pretty low power
9v at less than an amp
It's a guitar effects pedal psu
Which be careful if your ever working with
They are wired backwards
No looks interesting though!
No fires ๐
Was happy with it though, I think I might make a more permanent solution out of it
The light comes with this battery adapter that I've no use for (it's what I'm alligator clipping to in the above) that I might add a 2.1mm jack so I connect directly to it
Not the final version of it, but I normally send a Rough draft to a couple of friends for review and feedback before publishing
LOL. My "next order" list on Adafruit is 489 bucks, and that's before I add multiples of certain things! I think I'll be patient and actually wait for Wednesday's 10% off code.... ๐
@stuck moth Does atom support debugging interfaces?
@hollow oasis I don't know. I use gdb
@stuck moth thanks!
np @hollow oasis
Engineers are just ways to turning coffee into solutions
$250 .. for this: http://sunu.io
or DIY for less than $50 ๐
kinda reminds me of @pallid pivot 's ultrasonic ruler
https://youtu.be/y2HE9h67Br8 it's unlisted at the moment, I need to make some changes to it but would be interested in any feedback you have!
@cascade#3765 Soooo, what's wrong with my Tapeless Measure???
@pallid pivot someone is selling something similar in a fitbit wristband for $200+
@indigo jetty just saw your video! I think its a good introduction!
@abstract violet Does it talk like my Tapeless Measure???
@pallid pivot no it uses haptics, but I think your tapeless measure could also be used in the same way to aid the blind ๐
@abstract violet Ah, I see. The TP only cost me $100 at the most. But it was for fun, not profit.
@pallid pivot yeah, reminded me of the $1000+ for a show and tell guest's control device thingy (sorry my memory fails me atm) and how he made an open source alternative
Thanks @abstract violet
I'm off to the UK for the weekend so I'll apply a bit of Polish to it next week and release it
@indigo jetty could you expand the GPIOS somehow?
With an i2c expander maybe
But size wise and cost would definitely be better with something like a huzzah
If I stop replying don't be offended ๐
Google now is normally on the ball with flight notifications from info it reads from your Gmail
But this literally just popped up for me
Note the departure time and the time it actually is ๐
Thanks man!
Flight delayed an hour
While we are on the plane ๐
At least I can catch up on @tiny moat stream ๐
Oh it doesn't seem to be available on YouTube
Oh well, next one!
Still processing.. @indigo jetty
Ah cool!
@indigo jetty , good video.
Thank you @hyp3rMC
@abstract violet I think you are thinking of @dry sphinx mouth joystick
@stuck moth ah thanks! yes! One of the things I appreciate about getting into electronics is a new perspective on technology in regards to hardware. The face of an ultrasonic sensor is a familiar one (wouldn't have recognized it a few months ago...) so its funny to see on a commercial product and go, "hey that's something anybody could make for less!" --
@abstract violet totally! I find I am more willing to fix things too
I actually resoldered the usb connector in my kindle ๐
fixed the charging issues I was having
@stuck moth Yeah, I feel more confident about fixing my own devices too! Even those with literally zero documentation/support/replacement parts glares at my pebble watch
yeah... I bailed to apple watch but am still hoping fitbit gets its act together
@stuck moth yeah I love the apple watch, esp the bluefruit app -- i may have used that as a reason to get one XD
๐ collin woul dbe happy to hear that
Hello people. I was up till 1am with Adam and his Scanning Electron Miroscope. That thing is amazing. I highly recommend checking out his pics and gifs he posted.
@stuck moth pebble released an update so you can run it without their services, but it was cool that they even had a web-api to create watch apps using javascript i think.. wonder if fitbit will have this sort of functionality in their future line
@pallid pivot g'morning!
@abstract violet And a top of the morning to you too.
@abstract violet I wish they'd make something cheaper and not do apps. I want a watch with notifications for cheap
@stuck moth I have a "Notifier" that never fails. Her name is Ann. ๐
@stuck moth have you seen the screens on pebble devices? are they available for consumer purchase -- I think it'd be a great Gemma M0 project.. seems like a good size.
@pallid pivot totally agree. The SEM was just amazing.
@polar wraith Wasn't that the coolest thing you ever saw. And to think he's doing it in his garage. Ya gotta love it...
@abstract violet I've never seen them separately. it would be super cool
@pallid pivot and the Z Machine was pretty cool, too. But yeah, Scanning Electron Microscope ... in the garage.
@polar wraith Oh yeah, The Z maxhine, I allmost forgot about it. Got google that for my SHBB, (Steamy Hot Bubble Bath), they're very thareputic.
@stuck moth would be cool if adafruit stocked these displays โบ๏ธ the watch thickness is like 7.5mm, the display-- even thinner
30mAh battery lasts 2-3 days without charging..
know where to get them?
@stuck moth check out the xaomi smart band, it supports basic notifications (not reading them) and it's only $20-25
@stuck moth its a sharp display! apparently available on mousser
Smart band 2 sorry
@indigo jetty that sounds like what I'm thinking
@abstract violet why not just buy it from mouser then?
Iirc The notifications require an app called my bands tools
would take a lot more resources and time out of me to create the ribbon connectors/pcb etc.. and write the drivers etc...
But it's a really nice device for the price
ah, so we'd need a driver fo rit
and not consumer purchasable apparently at least for this round one: https://www.sharpsma.com/where-to-buy?keywords=LS010B7DH05&buyNow=true
@indigo jetty are yeh in london now ๐
(octopart is useful to search for parts)
huh! i tried searching with the model name and didnt get any results
I'm in a city 30 minutes south of London called Brighton
Pewtie pie and jackseptickeye live here apparently
It's about the most famous thing about it
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It's actually a really cool place so far, very artsy
@stuck moth https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/28/16054300/fitbit-new-smartwatch-app-store-software-launch ewps
@indigo jetty take lots of pics!!
lame
@stuck moth ever had a fuelband?
nope
Say, has anyone done a comparison of Ultimate GPS vs. the other popular ones like UBlox? I didn't find anything in blogs or the learn system, but I figure I should ask....
@polar wraith ublocks which version? IIRC, ublox neo6 has 6 North American Sattelites, neo7 has access to both north american + russian sats.. and the ultimate gps has access to 22...
@abstract violet I have (naturally) a number of Ultimate GPS boards, but I also have the UBlox 6N, 7-something, and now an 8 something, so I was going to compare them all.
@polar wraith I think all of them are within 10 meter accuracy, with the ultimate being more accurate..
Yeah, it's the accuracy I want to write about.
@polar wraith could you use wifi to help with accuracy in combination with the ultimate gps?
I don't know. I was actually just thinking of doing differential GPS in software with them....
@polar wraith may not work if your application is in the waters away from wifi too xD
Well, true, but I was going to test on land. ๐
the newest ublox stuff uses a fourth local distance measurement to get really good accuracy I think
Oh, that'll be interesting. My UBlox8 is literally sitting in ESD packaging on my bench, so I just got it. It will be interesting to see what kind of non-GPS satellite coverage I can get.
it requires a separate base station though
Thanks, @stuck moth. I'll check into it. Don't be surprised if I show up at lunch with a bag full of GPS devices collecting data. ๐
๐ I won't be
@stuck moth Howdy, quick question for ya. You know the Circuit Playground right? If you place it on its edge and roll it across the table and knowing its circumference, can I use the data from the Accel to figure out how far it rolled???
@pallid pivot probably. seems like a sound idea
Tapeless Measure 3 going on the Drawing Board. Thanks Scott.
๐ awesome. np
Question for the floor: if someone were trying to get a battery for an ANCIENT MacBook, does anyone have recommendations for names which to look for / avoid like the plague?
I think most of them at this stage are going to be sourced from China if you can get them at all
@pallid pivot you would have to try ensure no slippage, a bare PCB board would be kind of slippy
Maybe a rubber band or something?
What would you rotate it around?
@indigo jetty Oh, I know, your right, my idea is to 3D print a wheel big enough to hold the CPExpress, battery, Emic2, and small speaker and then put a rubber tire onto that wheel. It would probably be at least 3 inches in diameter.
Yeah cool
Sounds interesting!
It's a good idea using the accelerometer
There was a tv show from the UK and Ireland where there was a joke product of sellotape (sticky tape?) dispenser that called out how much you used, I've been meaning to make it, sounds like you are almost designing it for me ๐
@indigo jetty I just needed a project for the CP Express I received compliments of Adafruit. My Tapeless Measure now has the Show and Tell sticker on it. My Tapeless Measure 2 is off the drawing board and onto the breadboard at about 20% complete. So this would be Tapeless Measure 3. Simply roll it over a surface and it will speak its distance traveled while traveling. I know, I have big grandiose ideas, but hey, why not?
@pallid pivot most rovers use a camera that physically looks at the wheels turning in order to do that. I wonder why not use your method, or rotary encoders....
I like your solution better, provided sufficient update rate.
@polar wraith Yeah, it sounds doable, but is the Accel acuracy enough. Lots of question to investigate, but that's half the fun.
You should have a consistent acceleration of -9.8m/s^2 "down", so you can track that acceleration as it moves "around" the sensor.... It should work as long as the wheel isn't turning faster than the device update rate.
@polar wraith Yup, nice work man, thinking like a true technologist. Thanks for the info.
LOL. No worries.
Wild guesses (only):
Kepler noted that the planets in their orbits sweep out equal areas in equal times.
The CPX won't be mounted exactly centred on another wheel -- the axle goes there (if there is one).
A highly eccentric curve described by the centre of the location of the sensor on the board might give a much higher resolution of the displacement distance between the sensor and the tabletop -- caused by mounting it way off centre.
I'm thinking an array of sensors spread near the perimeter of the contact wheel.
Each one probably loses accuracy/resolution during some part of its journey about the centre of rotation of the pilot wheel.
So, like a motor's armature, each one is on-duty for high accuracy, part time. This also gives more time for computation during a single rotation of the pilot.
The CPX zeroes out the z-axis sensor when it is rolled on edge as described.
When you get such a null on the Z, that leaves X and Y to report differences.
I'm guessing they report orientation, not displacement from any surface. how could they. really.
So range information (to the tabletop) would be computed values from physical constants (primarily: dimensions of the wheel and distance to the edge of the wheel of the sensor, which would be taken as a fixed value (constant).
the value of g does not range much in the distances involved.
And I'm back quiet.
Way off topic, but ... Soyuz MS-05 has docked with the ISS and they're about to open the hatch. You can watch on nasa.gov and follow the links to NASA TV.
@polar wraith ooh was just watching that
@viral spruce Pretty nice flight and docking!
Interstellar Docking Scene Music - No Time For Caution - Hans Zimmer Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Matt...
Hahahaha! I love that movie.
We had an event at my university where a lot of the staff from varied departments discussed parts of the movie like the giant wave
had Kip Thorne there as well
Oh that would be interesting.
Was going to say, "I'm biased 'cause I'm friends with Kip."
I nominated him and the LIGO team for the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Theoretical Physics (which they won....)
oh that's awesome!
And I have a standing invitation to LIGO now that I live in the Seattle area. ๐
ooh i'd totally go if I were you
Oh I am. ๐ And I'll take my optical telescope and spend the night in the parking lot observing, too. ๐
I still want to do the Bell Labs tour de force that GiantEye did around NYC/NJ
That'd be cool. Last time I was there was, ah, '95? Thereabouts.
Right now trying to decide if I fly to KSC for the SpaceX Falcon Heavy maiden flight.
I've never been to a launch, it's on my long list
Me either. And the FH launch will be exciting, however it turns out. ๐
Neither have I been to a launch. Pretty exciting stuff!
SpaceX is particularly interesting.
Yes, I'm a big Elon/SpaceX fan...
Rockets? Did someone say Rockets???
Indeed, @pallid pivot ! We did bring up rockets.
@polar wraith I see, ummmm, I'm sort of addicted to rockets so when I see or hear anything about them, well, I sort of got to know what's going with them. It's a life long passion since watching Neil and the guys go to the moon when I was a young kid. My "Dark Blue Yonder" flew to over 10,000 feet more than once and broke the sound barrier twice. I was maybe 6 months away from Level 3 Certification (M, N, O motors) when 9/11 happened. Consequently, this resulted in the end of my High Power Rocketry days.
Dark Blue Yonder, 10,000+ ft Altitude, 1024 mph max. Velocity๐ฎ
She's a small rocket but was quite a "Hotrod" in her day...
@pallid pivot Why did 9/11 put an end to your high powered rocketry? Tripoli is still around, isn't it?
(and I started thinking about sticking my toes back in it. Was looking at some E and F series engines and rockets today.)
@polar wraith Oh yes, Tripoli is doing just fine. But when they allowed us to launch again after about a year they added a bunch of rules and regulations and fee's and and required a Warrentless search and it just got to much to deal with and besides, at that level, it's very expensive. So, I just never got back into it. And, I had pranged my booster that I built for Blue on that final August launch. Blue staged and flew great, but the boosters altimeter didn't breath and it came down fast and hard. That was a $500+ loss which needed to be rebuilt anyways so I focused my interests elswhere.
Ugh. What a pain. I'm sorry to hear that. Particularly the "warrantless search" part.
Well, they just want to make sure the magazine used to store the APCP fuel is up to standards. But still, your right, I didn't like that.
I mean, I'm pretty sure FFLs have to deal with the same thing with the ATF....
Nonetheless....
I'm just sensitive about surveillance states for ... reasons.
Yes, however, there is more to the story. You see, they new the hobby was growing and that more of us would want to store our own propellent and they were right. So they said they would make it ewasier to get the peopellent but we want to make sure it is stored properly. Sort of a give and take.
Hmmm. Would be fun to make a liquid fueled engine. I wonder if that's even legal....
Ladies and Gentlemen, May I present, ROSIE. ๐
@pallid pivot you should upload it to YouTube. I'll take a look it when I'm not on my phone, looking forward to seeing it!
@indigo jetty Its not much, just a vid of my robotic arm I'm turning into a sort of marinette.
It's the beginning. She's ALIVE kind of moment.
Oh, and the bunny is just there for now to take the edge of the mechanical asspects. ๐
Very nice @pallid pivot... these days, add a neural net and she can figure out what to pick up and everything...
I'm amazed at the tensorflow recognition stuff getting squeezed down into mobile sizes.
@dusty citrus Ya know, I've spent a lot of time studying ANN's and tried a few in C++. But I found a book that decribes a thing called "Reflex Arc's" and using that along with "Natural Language Analysis" for spoken sentence understanding in order to have ROSIE respond in an expected manner may work out rather nicely.
Right now, my main concern is the interconnection between the various processors used to contruct ROSIE. Consider this, a Mega 2560 in the arm, a pyBoard brain, an UNO w/MOVI for voice in/out, another pyboard on the OpenMV camera for sight. How do I have all these guys talk to each other?
Believe me, this one issue has had lots of "Steamy Hot Bubble Bath Contemplation". ๐ค
Does anyone feel that arduino is compiling slower than before?
@hollow oasis I have lately. I've switched to PlatformIO and noticed an increase
anyone else watching the fun exploits coming out of DEFCON's voting village this year?
@hollow oasis http://platformio.org/get-started
Cross-platform build system and library manager. Cross-platform IDE and unified debugger. Remote unit testing and firmware updates
Thanks @viral spruce
The microscope: http://bit.ly/2vLB0Sl The patreon :) https://www.patreon.com/marcoreps We have briefly looked at this ancient DMM before, but delayed the rep...
This guy makes some really enjoyable videos in my opinion, they are interesting content wise but he also has a a good amount of humour in it
I linked to a part of a video that should be pretty boring (him struggling to remove the cap of an ic) but see what he does to liven it up. I actually lol'd in work looking at Thursday
@vast condor https://twitter.com/witnessmenow?lang=en and https://youtu.be/l9Gl1yKvMNg
I think this a great solution to how to force config mode when using the WiFiManager library. Apologies, I'm a little over the two minute mark here, but I wa...
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I can't link to my own channel using the YouTube app
I don't use Twitter as much as I should though
Thanks. That's fine, I'll find ya.
I used to be really into Twitter. I don't spend much time on it any more.
Day-Timer (paper version) Palm III PDA, Casio DIgital Diary -- they all promised to change-up the way I did things. That's what (obsessing on) Twitter or Thisser or Thatter is all about. Magic Bullets.
I prefer skills, such as knowing that (day/month pairs) 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12, 5/9, 9/5, 7/11 and 11/7 all fall on the same day of the week, in any year.
(Tuesday in 2017)
As does the last day of February "March Zeroth". January 3rd (non leap years) and January 4th (leap years).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
@dusty citrus that's pretty cool lol!
@hollow oasis Since I only memorize it for the current year (Tuesday in 2017) it's little work for me to use it. Instead of finding a calendar and consulting it, when someone mentions a date (but not a day of the 7-day week) I pretty much instantly know the answer to the question: What day does that fall on.. Thursday? Friday?
I always know.
random thought I wish I could use silicone stranded 30 awg wire more often --