#general-chat

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abstract violet
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what are yoiu watching @runic elbow

runic elbow
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Assassination Classroom.

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I might need to do some slight overclocking to get it to work with fullscreen.

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At least I think that's how it works.

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built in ad blocker works on Crunchyroll! Ad free anime! And on a legal source! Awesome!

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I will now proceed to have an all night marathon of Assassination Classroom.

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Just because the Pi can do it.

hollow oasis
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@dusty citrus that's an amazing bit of knowledge to have! Thanks for sharing it

vast condor
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There's also a guide to get the native Netflix app working on the Pi. I guess there's problems using in the browser, so someone got it working an alternative way. I'll see if I can find the guide

stuck moth
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@thin rose @spare ether did you get splatoon 2 yet?

thin rose
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@stuck moth nope, I should check it out though

stuck moth
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yeah, its super fun

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and has plenty of items you could 3D print ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

thin rose
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@stuck moth Oh!

stuck moth
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its a shooter so their are lots of guns and such

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but they shoot ink

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(which could be wild if you actually shot a liquid)

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there is also an ink backpack I think

spare ether
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oh will have to check it out

stuck moth
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we should friend each other too

spare ether
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totally ! will go ahead and finally update the firmware ๐Ÿ˜

thin rose
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@stuck moth i think my user is noepixil

stuck moth
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i think it requires a switch code ๐Ÿ™„

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mine is SW-4187-4891-1120

iron pond
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undefined@everyoneadafruitadmin

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<@&338026912985251851>

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ffs

stuck moth
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?

iron pond
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list of members in role admin

stuck moth
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me ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

iron pond
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false

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oh

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@stuck moth why

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msg.guild.owner.user.username

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adafruit

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oh ok

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its just that owner has all permissions

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who is adafruit anyway

stuck moth
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its phil

indigo jetty
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@polar wraith the quality of that xaomi camera seems really good

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Although an ergonomics expert is going to be on to you about the lean over to the laptop ๐Ÿ˜‚

hollow oasis
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@polar wraith which xiaomi you are using?

indigo jetty
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He mentions xaiomi 360 in the description

polar wraith
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@hollow oasis It's the Miaji

hollow oasis
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Miaji?

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Oh Mijia!

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Oh my it is pretty!

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I can see lots of uses for this

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You can go on virtual hikes

polar wraith
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Yup, sorry, I misplaced the "a" ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

hollow oasis
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Xiaomi has some really nice devices

polar wraith
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It's quite compact, too. About half the size of an iPhone 7 plus.

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Thicker, but still pretty flat.

hollow oasis
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How would you hold it?

indigo jetty
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I guess it's gotta be a helmet or something

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So it can see both sides

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Sorry if you are walking I mean

polar wraith
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It comes with a small tripod so you can set it on a desk, for example. I'm also experimenting with a selfie stick for walking around.

indigo jetty
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I'm kinda wondering what my next purchase will be for making videos

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I was thinking about getting a good Dslr

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But when I see some of the videos people make with higher end phones I'm kind of wondering should I go that route

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As I would also gain a nice phone!

polar wraith
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I got a NIkon D3300 for astrophotography and have used it to make videos. It's acceptable, though I need about a 17mm lens for it.

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Phones actually work pretty well.

indigo jetty
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A phone is much easier for tripods etc too

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As they aren't as heavy

polar wraith
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That is true...

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I just have a DSLR for astrophotography anyway... I'm not sure I'd buy one just for video.

hollow oasis
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Any recommendations for cheap rework stations?

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Aw wow!

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That's beautiful! I'd use it for a background

polar wraith
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I have. I also printed it on 8x10 metallic paper, which enhances the contrast even farther.

hollow oasis
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๐Ÿ˜„

polar wraith
indigo jetty
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Yeah that looks great @polar wraith

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@hollow oasis are you European?

hollow oasis
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Nope

indigo jetty
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Or at least not US based is what I really mean

hollow oasis
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I am based in Asia and the US. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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More in the US though

indigo jetty
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Ah OK, I was just going to mention that most of the solder station stuff on adafruit is probably only 110v tolerant

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Or at least worth double checking

hollow oasis
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Oh yeah. I busted a lamp from the US that I brough to Asia.

indigo jetty
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But if you are us based then it's fine!

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Dang

hollow oasis
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Yeah, it wasn't marked. Was a pretty nice soldering lamp too

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Oh well. Live and learn I guess!

indigo jetty
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I don't have a hot air station, would kind of like one but I can't justify it!

hollow oasis
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are you based in the US Brian?

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Really?

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It makes working with SMD magical

indigo jetty
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I'm in Ireland

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I've never worked with smd

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I bought my first smd ic just today!

hollow oasis
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You can make really tiny things. It does open up a lot of possibilities!

indigo jetty
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I bought a few sop8 to dip8 adapters

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Yeah I've never done any board design for either

polar wraith
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I think I'm going to chicken out on hand soldering SMDs. I'll just stencil my boards and use Microsoft's reflow ovens. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
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It's on my todo list

hollow oasis
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She did it with an iron O.o

polar wraith
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I know. I'm intimidated.

indigo jetty
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I'll be doing with an iron too

hollow oasis
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๐Ÿ˜„ flux is magic

indigo jetty
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I'll let you know how it goes once the slow boat from China delivers

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See you in about 6 months ๐Ÿ˜‚

hollow oasis
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Haha your adapters?

indigo jetty
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Both the ic and adapters

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Hopefully it works out but I want to use the ic for polarity protection on my led light

hollow oasis
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Oh doesn't china do epacket to Ireland?

indigo jetty
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Where it will automatically switch the output voltage to the correct polarity regardless of input polarity

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They do, but although super inconsistent the free delivery normally is about 3 weeks

hollow oasis
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@polar wraith I'm jealous. My closest thing to a reflow would probably be a refurbished toaster

indigo jetty
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And I've tonnes of projects that I should be working on in between ๐Ÿ˜‚

hollow oasis
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Oh nice!

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I do recommend epacket though, it is paid, but it does get to you before you forget what you got the component for

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It's pretty early in Ireland isn't it?

indigo jetty
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2:30 pm

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It's about 6 hours before est

hollow oasis
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Woops! my bad.

indigo jetty
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I'm terrible at timezones

hollow oasis
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Me too

polar wraith
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@hollow oasis I was going to go that route but then I found out there are reflow ovens I can use. Much better. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
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Especially when @polar wraith is sending good morning to people before I even leave my house ๐Ÿ˜‚

polar wraith
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Hahahaha. I got to work at 0500 today.

hollow oasis
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@polar wraith I'd say! Wow that's early

polar wraith
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Lots to do.

hollow oasis
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@polar wraith What do you do for a living?

indigo jetty
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Finished your hackathon?

polar wraith
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I'm a senior security program manager at Microsoft, focused mostly on incident response and government operatios.

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operations

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@indigo jetty No, not by a long shot! We're going to try to have it up and working by the 15th so we can observe the eclipse on the 21st.

hollow oasis
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@polar wraith That's a lot of responsibility!

polar wraith
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@hollow oasis Yes, but I like it. It's a great work environment!

hollow oasis
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@polar wraith Definitely! Either you love your work or are extremely disciplined to be at the office at 0500!

polar wraith
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Just insomnia. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

hollow oasis
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Ah

polar wraith
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But I do love my work. And I can tinker with Adafruit bits while I'm here, which is nice.

indigo jetty
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My work seem to like the idea of doing innovative stuff like hardware projects

polar wraith
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Today's tinkering is trying to make an ArduiCam camera system work with CircuitPython on a Metro M0 Express.

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That's great, @indigo jetty

indigo jetty
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But the hoops I'd need to jump through is crazy

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Like no way am I getting a esp8266 on the internal network

hollow oasis
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Oh man that sounds like quite a challenge. I worked once with a OV2560 before, wasn't too fun

polar wraith
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Really? They're pretty innocuous. Of course, it's better if you have a test or guest network.

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@hollow oasis Yeah, I'm not really looking forward to it.

indigo jetty
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And even to get a standard Arduino so I could write to it from my work laptop I would need to submit a business justification form

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So I could get my USB port open on my laptop

polar wraith
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Oh goodness!

hollow oasis
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Sounds really locked down

indigo jetty
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It's understandable in some ways, given the nature of the business (financial services) they need to by hyper careful

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Just to make sure we don't lose all your 401k ๐Ÿ˜‚

polar wraith
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Well, yes, I suppose that's true!

hollow oasis
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Hahaha

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Where do you guys find the time to hack on projects?

indigo jetty
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At the cost of sleep mostly ๐Ÿ˜‚

polar wraith
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One, I don't sleep much. Two, my family lives across the country. Three, I live next door to my workplace, so it's a six minute walk from door to door. Put that together and there's ample time for electronics projects!

hollow oasis
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Ah hahha I thought you had to get up at 0400 surely to get to work at 0500!

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๐Ÿ˜„

indigo jetty
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It's my main hobby, I don't really "go out" (go to bars etc), I don't watch much tv or play too much games

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I kind of live in the middle of no where so there is not much temptation in the way of events etc!

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It's tough though, sometimes at the end of a long day the last thing you want to do is work on something

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But I love the output from these physical projects

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I'm a pretty determined person

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I don't get as much done as I'd like but it's normally from a lack of trying!

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Although I do watch Game of Thrones which I saw you are watching too @polar wraith

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Season has been great so far

polar wraith
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Yes, the ending of Sunday's episode was fantastic. Poor Jamie. Just when he's feeling smug....

indigo jetty
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Yeah

hollow oasis
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Hahah spoilers!

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Same. I feel exahusted at the end of the day too

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I am interested in getting to know more about the other engineers at Adafruit

polar wraith
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Only a little tiny spoiler.... But sorry.

hollow oasis
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It's all good :)))

polar wraith
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@hollow oasis I'm going to make a video interview of Scott, to talk about CircuitPython.

hollow oasis
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@polar wraith Yessss!

indigo jetty
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Scott is very active here (I think he lives here!) , the Ruiz brothers post pretty often too

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Jp jumps on around the live streams I think

polar wraith
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Yes, and PhilT and LadyAda are actually pretty frequent participants here, too.

hollow oasis
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I got the idea when I was looking at the old Gemma.

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A engineer by the name of Frank was mentioned.

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I'd love to hear him talk about how he developed the bootloader

runic elbow
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Even a copy of Galaga.

polar wraith
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Awww, man. That unfortunate feeling when you're at work and need a breadboard because you have two boards which both need 3.3v....

viral spruce
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off-topic: if anyone here is planning on going to new york makerfaire, shoot me a dm so we can say hi ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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@white elbow i wonder which boards those are ๐Ÿ˜‰

polar wraith
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@viral spruce RCWL0516 radar sensor and ArduCam OV5620 (?) SPI board.

viral spruce
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OH, i was totally off

polar wraith
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Yes similar

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And Naiomi is cracking me up tonight....

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I'm trying to set up the camera and radar on the Metro M0 Express running circuitpython so it will take a picture when the sensor detects motion. I have the radar library written and working, I just need to get the camera connected and the drivers written.

viral spruce
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doing any machine learning stuff with it/openCV

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?

polar wraith
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Nope, haven't gotten that far!

viral spruce
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๐Ÿ”œ

indigo jetty
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A friend of mine got this for me for my birthday, a lillypad, leds and some conductive thread. Guess I better learn how to sew!

viral spruce
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@indigo jetty If only there was a website for that ๐Ÿ˜‰

indigo jetty
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Ah no I looked at the adafruit videos about it before actually with Becky

hollow oasis
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Aw @indigo jetty your friends understand you

indigo jetty
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@hollow oasis yeah! I've been trying to get some of them into too, I have showed them some simple stuff

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This friend is also helping with the webcontrol part of my led matrix

abstract violet
ancient rivet
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import antigravity?

indigo jetty
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My rotary encoders came today so I might get to put back in the palette changing stuff from @lost condor sousaphone code

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I dunno if I'll get it done this evening though, I'm on putting baby to bed duty for the next couple of weeks

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Be she doesn't like me doing that so much so it's an epic battle

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty maybe she'll pick it up as a hobby eventually!

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@indigo jetty then you guys could do show and tell togetha

indigo jetty
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That would be the dream ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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shes sitting on my lap at the moment while I try add in the second encoder

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shes not that happy about it ๐Ÿ˜›

abstract violet
indigo jetty
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not yet ... ๐Ÿ˜›

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It is her birthday soon ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

abstract violet
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this month @indigo jetty ?

indigo jetty
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yup

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Its what the LED matrix is for

stuck moth
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we have emojis!!!! @here blinka sparky minerva

white night
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Hurrah! hans

wicked jungle
runic elbow
elfin wave
polar wraith
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My somewhat obvious favorite:
blinka

indigo jetty
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I wish I did a better job of taking the palette stuff out of the sousaphone code ๐Ÿ˜›

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We have working patterns, thanks @lost condor !

abstract violet
indigo jetty
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I think i let some magic smoke out of my finger ...

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remember to always dock your soldering iron!

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty wooh cool! psychedelic

runic elbow
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That is steller.

indigo jetty
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the patterns are all @lost condor , they look great

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finally finished soldering it today

lost condor
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Awesome, man

sonic forge
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Of course the emojis don't seem to work in the discord iOS app ๐Ÿ’ฉ

lost condor
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So @indigo jetty, what's the part you were having trouble with regarding palettes?

indigo jetty
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I just butchered your code is all

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and I wasnt sure if I was better reverting back to yours or modifying mine

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I should have just commented stuff out

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My webcam is doing a not great job of picking it up

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the matrix I mean

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Some of the palletes dont seem to work with patterns (I think the ones with just colour names)

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but the ones that do are amzing

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I have the USA pin wheel on at the moment and I'm feeling very patriotic ๐Ÿ˜›

lost condor
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Haha

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Yeah the color names are solid colors

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They don't look like anything, they're there mainly for the "fade" pattern

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If I want a solid color

indigo jetty
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ah cool

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I got rif of the flickering too

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#define FASTLED_ALLOW_INTERRUPTS 0

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up the top of the sketch

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although I have had the watchdog timer of the esp bark once

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not sure if related

lost condor
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Ahh, that'll do it

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The Wifi might work poorly though

main lodge
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oh ha, for some reason I thought that would become my user icon

stuck moth
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thats in settings on the left I believe

main lodge
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yep, i just didn't want to spam it up

stuck moth
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no worries ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

viral spruce
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off-topic, but very adafruit

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...I wonder what the 2017 version of this picture would be....google glass? briefcase with electronics equipment in it? lotsa raspberry pis?

bold turtle
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Briefcase? Bah

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4 section backpack

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hardshell, with a hidden drawer in the bottom

fallow cosmos
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Glass got beaten back into the box for being too obtrusive...by folks with cameras and always on devices attached to thier hands 24/7

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Mondo:)-

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I think it was the first Hope someone was walking around as a gargoyle, pc strapped to their back and a early twiddler

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Most of it would be PI3based now

viral spruce
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backpack needs solar

fallow cosmos
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Solar is much smaller now

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5v panel with a nice lipo

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Doing this projects I have refound various Adafruit parts I picked up with the best of intentions. Some of these were to make a window mounted solar charging unit for charging up some of the devices I use. So yeah, lets build that as part of this project. When done it should be a way to recharge your PiFold at night for a days worth of solar gathering. Thats the plan at least.Update - This came together quickly over the morning coffee. Parts - 1 ร— Duct Tape2 ร— JST 2 pin cable https://www.adafruit.com/products/2611 ร— Medium 6V 2W Solar panel - 2.0 Watt - https://www.adafruit.com/products/2001 ร— USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger - https://www.adafruit.com/products/3901 ร— Lithium Ion Battery Pack - 3.7V 6600mAh - https://www.adafruit.com/products/3531 ร— PowerBoost 500 Basic - 5V USB Boost @ 500mA - https://www.adafruit.com/product/1903Instructions - Assemble the Solar Charger and solder the output of the solar panel to the Solar Charger (see instructions at https://learn.adafruit.com/usb-dc-and-solar-lipoly-charger?view=all )Connect the JST from the

bold turtle
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My backpack actually has a hidden drawer in the bottom of it... which is 8/10 of why I got it

viral spruce
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thats quite a deciding factor lol

bold turtle
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Is the ONLY ONE I ahave ever seen

fallow cosmos
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I used to sewn false bottoms into mine, for transporting cassette mix tapes that we were not supposed to be passing around. My youngest has a semi hidden side pocket for his local content captive portal

indigo jetty
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Pulled the trigger on the ts100 soldering iron this morning

hollow oasis
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I pulled a trigger on a cheap rework from china this morning

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hi five

indigo jetty
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May our houses hopefully not burn down ๐Ÿ˜‚

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I would be interested in hearing how you get on with it @hollow oasis

hollow oasis
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Did you know that Atmel had to use USART when referring to UART because UART was copyrighted?

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@indigo jetty As do I haha. I'll definitely let you know!

indigo jetty
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The ts100 is heavily reviewed and recommended on YouTube

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But as I mentioned before, I feel like I've been guerilla marketed cause all those people got them for free ๐Ÿ˜‚

hollow oasis
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Ah, there was a worrying review on the rework when the guy pulled it open and I saw how empty it was on the inside. But hey, it had 800+ purchases so

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๐Ÿ˜›

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Hahaha oh well. I make do with what I have!

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Although the difference between a old, bad iron and a new bad iron is quite stark

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Old and bad really doesn't work

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But I picked up a hakko red and it works just fine.

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty ooh you gonna try the custom firmware for it? Was just watching a review of the features

indigo jetty
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Yeah!

runic elbow
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I will forever have the New jingle stuck in my head.

runic elbow
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I got the Gboard keyboard and the Google Now launcher. They are really nice.

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Makes it feel like a version of Android newer then 4.4.

lost condor
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I'm not exactly sure what I was doing wrong with my circle math before, but this one seems to be correct.

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Just changed methods (atan2 vs atan) and it seems to be correct now.

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ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

indigo jetty
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Cool thanks @lost condor !

abstract violet
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compiler wasnt in the mood for that method name @lost condor xD

lost condor
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Well, atan2 is the "common case" version of atan (finding the angle of an x and y pair)

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Something was wrong with my math but I don't feel like figuring it out. ๐Ÿ˜„

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@indigo jetty Now the circular patterns should be correct around the whole grid. Before they were actually just doing 0-180 repeated twice.

indigo jetty
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Thanks @lost condor ,i won't get to try it out this evening though

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This is my life this evening, trying to tidy up my office

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Unfortunately that's the clean side

abstract violet
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colour calibration sheets/passports cost so much for whatever reason.. $60...

stuck moth
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whoa 82 folks online

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty Discs!!!! lots of it

indigo jetty
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Yeah, an ancient relic of the past!

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Anyone want 200 blank dvd? ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Literally are probably worth more as Frisbees

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My girlfriend when I checked discord earlier "you are addicted to what ever that is"

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Probably not wrong

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I don't know why I have so many blank dvds, I was into Wii nodding at one stage (never selling games or anything) I think I got them off a guy who was getting out of pirating dvds or something

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I can't remember though!

abstract violet
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haha cool @indigo jetty , I used to be really into ROM hacking ๐Ÿ˜„

indigo jetty
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My final year project in college was a robot controlled via a Nintendo ds, that was the only time I did any console development

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Unless a ouya counts

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What did you hack @abstract violet?

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty Mostly GBA games, also did Nintendo DS stuff but more on homebrew apps and such..

indigo jetty
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Yeah, I've no idea what I used for mine

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Found my report in my Gmail ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Apparently I used palib

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For the ds homebrew

abstract violet
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"If you're just getting started with NDS homebrew development then you should avoid PAlib, PAlib users and PAlib tutorials at all costs. They will give you bad advice and teach you programming methodologies which will hinder your progress and ensure that your projects are plagued with problems that will be nigh on impossible to fix."

indigo jetty
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Haha

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Whoops

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I don't remember having any problems with it

abstract violet
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haha, just shows how early Palib was

indigo jetty
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It's funny how much of what I did in that project was linked to what I do now (hobby)

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But I completely forgot about it!

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Nothing too interesting in it

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I'd love to have one of those robots nowadays though!

abstract violet
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that looks intense! is it like a tank!

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@indigo jetty nice layout work ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

runic elbow
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I wonder if something similar can be achieved with a Nintendo Wii.

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Or maybe the original Xbox.

abstract violet
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why not ๐Ÿ˜„

runic elbow
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I would love to see someone flying a drone with a Wiimote.

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Or driving a little car with an Xbox controller.

abstract violet
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you could prolly skip the console bit and interface the controller directly!

runic elbow
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Sounds interesting.

abstract violet
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the wiimote can act like a regular bluetooth device

runic elbow
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Really?

runic elbow
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So I can use Wii emulators with a real Wiimote?

abstract violet
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yeah, i have a lot of these things too 8)

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yes

runic elbow
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I gotta get myself one of these arduinos! Or can the same thing be achieved with a Pi?

abstract violet
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yep, it should work with a pi

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bluetooth is all ya need

runic elbow
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Awesome! So I already have everything I need.

abstract violet
runic elbow
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Technology is incredible.

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Thank you.

abstract violet
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thats for general stuff, but i think this is what you are thinkin: http://www.instructables.com/id/Wiimote-Controller-Configuration-for-Raspberry-Pi-/

runic elbow
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Thank you. I'll be sure to check that out.

abstract violet
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I like that it has a bunch of sensors and buttons and all that

indigo jetty
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The nunchuck speaks I2C as well afaik

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty and the adafruit store stocks em i think!

ancient rivet
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yes. nunchuck is i2c.

lost condor
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Oooh

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I never knew that

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That means pro controller is too

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Or not pro controller...whatever they called the wiimote attached controller.

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That's weird, anyone know why the different colors of controller had different handshakes?

abstract violet
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@lost condor probably revised over time, eg. Wiimote (OG) vs. Wiimote + WiiMotion Plus vs. Wiimote with built-in Wiimotion Plus

indigo jetty
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The ir camera in the Wiimote should be i2c as well

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I harvested one, but for some reason I never did anything with it

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty what would you do with it?

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@indigo jetty also, "harvested" reminds me of Horizon Zero Dawn.. hunting bots for parts

indigo jetty
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My plan was to make a gimble that tracked you

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If you were wearing an IR led

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So maybe for recording something

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Never got around to it anyways!

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back to its project coffin i mean box

abstract violet
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hahah!

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thats a great idea ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
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There is an issue that the camera will pickup the ir led though

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Anyone feel free to steal the idea, it's unlikely I'll get around to it

lost condor
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Solution: Make the IR tracker part of your outfit. ๐Ÿ˜„

viral spruce
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@indigo jetty could always track...with openCV!

bold turtle
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OK, because I have been out of this loop for too long, and managed to recently acquire some hardware: What's the current best option for installing Actual Linux Packages on MacOS X?

hollow oasis
#

Anyone where keep a meticulous list of what SMD parts they buy and how they keep track of them?

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@bold turtle I think brew still is

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Just thinking, that using a 555 circuit, and an ATTiny85, and a M0, for one off projects, it makes much more sense to go for the M0

hollow oasis
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It is a fencing and electronics site!

indigo jetty
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Ha, an interesting combination!

abstract violet
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first time setting up a raspberry pi using diet pi instead of raspbian lite -- I can finally sleep blinka

hollow oasis
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haha

viral spruce
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@bold turtle You want Homebrew (https://brew.sh/). MacPorts is kinda depreciated at this point and a lot of people switched to Brew for their package manager ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

dire viper
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@viral spruce @bold turtle I am a professional software developer, and I second Homebrew. You can also use it to install .dmg packages through homebrew casks.

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And since homebrew is scriptable, you can write a single dev environment bootstrap script for a new Mac, and be pretty quickly up to speed on a new machine.

sonic forge
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@bold turtle same here, I use Homebrew mainly. But I recall having to use MacPorts a couple of times when Homebrew didn't have what I needed.

stuck moth
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@hollow oasis I use spreadsheets to track my stock

spice moss
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so homebrew beer or whine?

stuck moth
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my stock of smd part

abstract violet
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Adafruit gives me GAS.. gear acquisition syndrome

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I feel like a Pokemon training -- catching em all

indigo jetty
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Adafruit used cute stickers

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It's super effective

polar wraith
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@abstract violet I actually maintain a wish list called "next order." It's sitting around 500 bucks right now....

abstract violet
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@polar wraith waits for your unboxing videos hehe

polar wraith
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LOL! Yeah, I'll have to make one. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
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I might try so one for the ts100, I am a little worried about uploading a lot of different types of content than I usually do

abstract violet
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are you going to look into the fimware stuff? may be worth a bit in the video

indigo jetty
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There is definitely plenty of YouTubers where I've been put off by a change of direction

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I definitely will

abstract violet
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no matter what you're making in electronics, you'll have to deal with a soldering iron

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I think it fitz

indigo jetty
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Simeone geirtz (shitty robot queen) is a prime example

abstract violet
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I want to eventually build something like a shadow box with a buncha feathers -- maybe make the mount be a PCB (with silkscreen to match) & make them all blink --

indigo jetty
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I still think she's funny, but I used to watch her for the shitty robots

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And she the majority of her videos are not that anymore!

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That sounds really cool

abstract violet
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yeah sticking them to a plain board would be easy.. so have to make it complicated somewhat xD

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but mainly i think they should at least blink or have some function, maybe a similar thing to what @stuck moth in a previous show and tell

lost condor
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@indigo jetty Have you had a chance to try that new config yet?

indigo jetty
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No I will get to first in the morning though

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Family night tonight!

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@abstract violet

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Look familiar?

lost condor
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Haha, awesome. I'm working on checking in the code generation capabilities, and wanted to make sure the math is right.

abstract violet
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What do you think so far!

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@indigo jetty the animation & music ๐Ÿ‘Œ ๐Ÿ‘Œ

indigo jetty
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It's beautiful so far, but I'm two minutes in

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The dog is probably named after this guy

spice moss
nova raptor
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TIL: if you wrap a link in < and > Discord won't automatically embed the preview

spice moss
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it looks like similar to microbit

nova raptor
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Definitely does down there at that edge connector. I kinda dig the inlcuded oled tho.

indigo jetty
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@abstract violet it's a really beautiful film

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There is a lot of Irish bits in it (phrases etc)

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And the art style is very celtic

spice moss
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@nova raptor seems like adafruit edge connector what Ladyada designed for microbit work with it

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty it made me want to visit that side of the world for sure, very charming atmosphere -- wouldnt mind living in a lighthouse 8)

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@indigo jetty glad you enjoyed!

indigo jetty
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I dont think the internet would be very good @abstract violet!

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty I remember life before the internet ๐Ÿ˜„ minecraft lifestyle

polar wraith
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So what fun projects will everyone be working on this weekend?

indigo jetty
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@lost condor Which pattern would show it up best?

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Probably will make a video on the BLE thing tomorrow morning

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might try work on the Telegram learn guide Monday (public holiday)

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I should also try squeeze some circuitry into the frame for the LED matrix

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@abstract violet punch trees

indigo jetty
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how about you @polar wraith ?

polar wraith
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Making the ArduCam SPI/I2C camera work with CircuitPython, writing a motor shield driver in CircuitPython, maybe a little PCB design, and building my Lego Saturn V (assuming it arrived today).

spice moss
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thinking to play with BLE so control drone from the custom app

polar wraith
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That would be cool, @spice moss, but will it have the range you need?

spice moss
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it's small drone so testing it for future use cases

polar wraith
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Nice!

spice moss
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i currently have one but if i can get it work from one then i can expand it

polar wraith
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Gotta walk home from work. Should be back online in about 30 minutes.

spice moss
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i am making some research by this as planning drone mobile squad where is different feature set of drones

dusty citrus
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I'm writing a new CircuitPython pixel splitter/reorganizer...

hearty fiber
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@polar wraith i really need to get working on a guide for my echo wand telecom project. Also want to slim down a pi3 to fit in my sega joystick

polar wraith
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That's cool, too, @hearty fiber

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@dusty citrus I'm not following. What does it do with the splitter?

lost condor
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@indigo jetty It will show up best on the Spin pattern

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Especially with the rainbow palette

dusty citrus
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@polar wraith So CPX gives you 10 pixels, 0-9... that wrap around the ring.

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What if you wanted to treat that like 2 5 pixel rows, going up from the bottom (let's imagine a sound meter with stereo)

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Yes, you could write all sort of code, to 'fix' the display... but if you just had 2 strands of 5 each, and both were facing in same direction.... this lets you have that.

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you end up with 2 pixel objects, each with 0-4 addressing, and the 'real' #9 is now #0, #8 is #1, etc..

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Make sense now?

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I did it the 'easy' way, and realized that potentially there is a bug , because calling write() on one of them also calls it on the other...

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in most cases, won't matter, write is autmatic. To fix it, I'll have to create independent buffers... which I likely will... because it would allow you to double set things, and flip between them.... essentially 'sharing' pixels...

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I'm calling it the NeoPixelDistort class... because it slices, dices, let's you do anything you want...

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You can't directly mix pixels from different strands but that's what TonyD's NeopixelChain class does... this works with it, it inspired me to write this one.

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Using that and this, you could take a 2+ strands, combine them into one, and then slice out new strands from the chain...

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Example, if you wrapped one long set around a sphere, you could normally only address it via some complex math to figure out which pixel to light up for a given location... With this, you could create strands that run longitudes (north/south), and it just works. Set 0 to be the north pole, and the end to the south pole, and points between, and you're all set, never have to do the math again.

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To be clear, you can feed in any list of pixels, and it'll make a new strand of them.

indigo jetty
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@lost condor

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my camera is terrible the blues look fine in person

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also i pulled the signal wire to take the photo, i dont see any issues with the top left like I see in the picture

dusty citrus
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are you doing any gamma correction?

lost condor
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@indigo jetty Awesome, that's what it's supposed to look like.

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@dusty citrus I think (but I'm not positive) the FastLED library allows you to arbitrarily split up your neopixels in the same way.

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Looking at it, it looks like it expects the strips to be on different pins, though they can share the same buffer. However, I'm not sure it's really a problem if they are on the same pin. I'm going to do some tests

dusty citrus
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@lost condor Cool, I haven't played with fastled much, I actually started this coding session wanting to port FastLED effects, and ended up coding this custom thing, just because it seemed like fun to work on... Got it working and now I'm rewriting it to work with the most current neopixel.py, and I might even fold TonyD's pixelchain functionality (which also isn't up to current neopixel code) so it does everything. (I might not fold it, but will bring it up to new code level)

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that would mean that you could have hardware physical pin(s) to write to, but might have a pile of virtual strands, which might span multiple physical strands, and really, any combo of pixels you can imagine. (I'm adding slice support, based on current pixel code, too, since it's pretty easy to support that...)

lost condor
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Ahhh, is this Python work? Sorry. ๐Ÿ˜„

runic elbow
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Google Now launcher has OK Google on it, and it is very handy.

indigo jetty
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Started recording the ble scanner video, I'm talking with the video for the first time to hopefully speed up the time it takes to make the video, I think it's going OK, although I stood up to get the screen to focus and was further from the mic, hopefully I can fix the levels in software

hollow oasis
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@indigo jetty Awesome look forward to it!

indigo jetty
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I have that section synced up and edited

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I need to go through the code and the hardware and also do an introduction and and outro

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Thanks @hollow oasis, hopefully it's interesting

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It is actually a neat project

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It was one I wanted to make for years

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Even before I was into arduinos etc

polar wraith
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@dusty citrus Thank you! That makes a lot of sense now.

indigo jetty
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Finally have my office clean! nothing to stop the making now!

lost condor
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@indigo jetty What do you use for video editing?

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Also, I love back to school season. graph paper composition books for 50 cents.

indigo jetty
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I use something called active presenter

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It's almost like power point

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It's not really a real video editor

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For more informational videos or ones involving screen shares I recommend it

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But nobody is making movies with this thing ๐Ÿ˜‚

lost condor
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Ahhh, OK. Heh

indigo jetty
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Not published yet. I'm not too sure about parts of it.

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There is a large volume change when I'm at my desk and when I'm at my computer. Any for some reason I have my eyes opened as wide as possible during on screen parts. Also, 20 mins..

viral spruce
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@indigo jetty friendly advice: if you can, get a screencasting software so that you can zoom in on what you're talking about. Larger monitors create issues when recorded, can't really see 'em on a smaller one too well. Zooming in is the way to go instead of highlighting w/boxes

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alternatively you can zoom in on whatever editing software you use, it just felt a bit "far" to me. I liked the video a lot.

indigo jetty
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Thanks @viral spruce

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Especially since if you got the code part you put up with at least half of it ๐Ÿ˜‚

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That's good advice though

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If you have any more feedback I'd be delighted to hear, even if negative! I'm very happy to try improve whenever I can so certainly am not offended by negative feedback

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I know it's not exactly citizen kane of YouTube videos ๐Ÿ˜‚

indigo jetty
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throwing it out there, we'll see how it does

stuck moth
#

time to try player unknown's battlegrounds ๐Ÿ˜„

fair summit
#

@indigo jetty @viral spruce Camtasia is really superb but is an investment. I tried a bunch of free and cheaper ones at work for Windows and there really was no comparison.

indigo jetty
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Nice @stuck moth !

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Im playing at the moment too, but on the EU servers

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Since the update on the Wednesday its a bit slow to connect

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if you get the connecting screen with an empty loading bar for maybe 5 or 10 seconds click the reload icon up the top right

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it will eventually timeout and prompt you to reconnect, but once it goes past the 5 or 10 seconds its not happening

stuck moth
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@indigo jetty it crashed after my parachute deployed....

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how do i force kill a windows app? end task in the task manager isn't working

spice moss
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@stuck moth think that parachute deploy automatic in certain height

stuck moth
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@spice moss it did and then the app crashed

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I think I need an upgrade...

fair summit
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@stuck moth are you already in the Processes tab in Task Manager? That should do it.

stuck moth
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yup

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its not

fair summit
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gah

spice moss
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I need atleast 512GB ssd as least of it seems in Desktop go fast

fair summit
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Then it is waiting on a kernel resource or something like that. Do you have a fancy graphics card? Maybe driver issue.

stuck moth
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it is slowly losing memory

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I think its just that my system is underspec for the game

fair summit
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Someone suggests from CMD: taskkill /pid 1234 /f

spice moss
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I have seen the game framedrops in good gear

stuck moth
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how do I find the pid?

fair summit
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Is there a Details tab in your task Manager? What version Windows? Right click on task and Properties?

stuck moth
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@spice moss its more about what frames it renders

fair summit
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I am in Ubuntu right now, can't try.

stuck moth
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ah I see

spice moss
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well the game need some optimizations to be done

fair summit
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@stuck moth From Processes tab, if you right-click on the task and click "Go to Details" it will select the matching process.

#

Though that still may not work to kill it.

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(I booted up the laptop to look)

stuck moth
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yeah, the pid didn't work either

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I think I'll restart

fair summit
#

I see a reboot in your future.

stuck moth
#

it'll probably just crash again though. my compie is definitely under spec

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the cpu is older than what they state and the gpu is at the minimum

fair summit
#

You might try a downloaded GPU driver from the company (e.g. Nvidia site) to be absolutely up to date. But I have certainly just seen things freeze up under load. Ah well.

stuck moth
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its only 8gb ram too ๐Ÿ˜•

spice moss
#

with nvidia there geforce experience what helps with drivers thankfully

stuck moth
#

yeah, my gpu is amd

spice moss
#

was it catalyst in amd what keeps radeon drivers up to date

stuck moth
#

yup yup

indigo jetty
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I only have 8 as well

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Sorry was just in a game

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finished second :/

stuck moth
#

now I'm cpu shopping ๐Ÿ˜•

indigo jetty
#

You must have been due an upgrade ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

stuck moth
#

yeah, I think I bought it around 2012

indigo jetty
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yeah me too, but it was pretty decent at the time i5-2500k still doing ok

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I'll keep chugging away with it till there is something I cant do with it

stuck moth
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my cpu is an i5 750

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๐Ÿ˜ƒ

polar wraith
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My CPU is a 1,000 core Azure cluster? ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
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Can it run games @polar wraith ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

polar wraith
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LOL nope.

indigo jetty
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I think i got mine in late 2011, it was a pretty good spec machine at the time but literally the only thing I've added to it since is a SSD

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Has served me well

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Still havent won a game of PUBG, got another second tonight

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(2 seconds tonight)

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Time for bed, thankfully a public holiday tomorrow

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What video where you thinking of doing @polar wraith ?

polar wraith
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Kind of a poll. A sitting in the pool and talking about the projects have on my todo list, and asking what people think I should do next.

indigo jetty
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I get very little responses to questions on my videos

polar wraith
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Huh. Good info to have. I guess I'll skip it and just work on something. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
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I'd say 80% of my comments are asking for help

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The rest being "thanks" and then a few comments on my accent ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Yeah I see the same with other small channels too, it makes sense I suppose

polar wraith
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Yeah, I can see that in retrospect.

indigo jetty
#

I think at the level we are at i think making videos that you enjoy is the way to go. My one today, while i think overall its decent, and I'm pretty happy with it, it's not really the type of video that I would like to see. I'd prefer a more scripted and edited one

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And kind of as a result I'm probably not as satisfied with it. Like my niche so far has been making 2 minute videos that share some useful information and this was the exact opposite nearly!

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But the main reason I got into to YouTube is have a place to show off projects (which doesn't lend as well to the quick videos) so I'm a little in YouTube limbo at the moment!

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Ime hoping to set up a stream in a few weeks. A friend of mine who is technical but has never done any Arduino is doing it with me, where he would start from scratch and I would explain it to him as we go along

polar wraith
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That'll be cool!

indigo jetty
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Yeah and he has good internet too so I can actually stream ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Riggins deciding 3:40 am is a good time to go outside

polar wraith
#

Puppy!

indigo jetty
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He's deciding its not a good time to come back in now

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Lieing down outside now

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He's like a Pokemon that I don't have enough badges to control

weary fiber
#

Question for the history buffs in here: what is, in your opinion, the most useless treaty in history?

polar wraith
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@Trilli Geek answer: the Washington Treaty limiting the size and number of capital ships.

spice moss
runic elbow
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I love it.

spice moss
#

you think @swift hatch could do same to his workshop place so he have chat there by just press a button and it slide to reveal itself?

swift hatch
#

I like that idea @spice moss

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I've been working on some drawer slides and linear actuators, so very timely

spice moss
#

@stuck moth for those i used soldering paste and it went that nicely in place all of them

runic elbow
#

I've learned the hard way that the WiFi services for YouTube on the Wii was shut down.

#

I should probably start homebrewing it soon if I want to do anything online with it.

runic elbow
#

I wonder if Netflix still works.

#

Yay, it does.

abstract violet
#

pretty cool floating "cloud" project edit: also ridiculously $4,620...

indigo jetty
#

Guess you'll just have to make one @abstract violet ๐Ÿ˜‚

runic elbow
#

Alexa could also turn on us.

proven olive
#

Nah, we need Alexa. How else are we going to get supplies?

runic elbow
#

Ok Google.

stuck moth
#

adabot will save us from the robot uprising. we encourage robot friends

runic elbow
#

Ada...bot will save us. Is that the name?

stuck moth
#

Adabot is adabot

runic elbow
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Ok.

bold turtle
#

P is for Percussive Maintainance, and R is for Radical Disassembly?

stuck moth
#

ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

#

thats what you get for building an editor in javascript on top of chromium (if understand it)

elfin wave
#

"Announcing Arduino.js: everything else has been ported there, so why not this?" would be a good April Fool's post

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But then there's espruino, isn't there?

stuck moth
#

night all. off to "commute" home and head to a friend's for dinner

viral spruce
#

your discord friends - @rich onyx and @viral spruce on #manufacturingmonday today ๐Ÿ˜ƒ i see

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I really liked the music dano picked

crude trench
#

if you were impressed by the battle scene in GOT S7E4, you might like that ^ video

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(when I go off topic, I go way, way off topic)

stuck moth
indigo jetty
runic elbow
#

I found out IDE SSDs are a thing that exists.

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Mostly Mini IDE. I haven't seen a regular IDE SSD yet.

runic elbow
#

Good thing Mini IDE to regular IDE adapters exist.

spice moss
runic elbow
#

It can do that on the PS4, so it might work on the Xbox One.

indigo jetty
elfin wave
#

my first thought was "that's a heavy duty plug!!" before realizing it probably wasn't US ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
#

Haha, it's an adapter but our plugs are a good bit "beefier" ok

#

It came with a EU plug

#

The UK plug is actually really well designed

#

It's bulky but very safe

#

That's a surprisingly interesting video on it

#

I always found US plugs insane

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๐Ÿ˜‚

elfin wave
#

I'm not saying they're great

#

I'm looking at houses now and it's become "my thing" to check all the plugs to see if they're grounded or not

#

we looked at one which had been flipped but none of the outlets were grounded, except in the kitchen and bathrooms

indigo jetty
#

There would have to be some really crazy wiring to see a house with out ground in UK or Ireland (we call it earth)

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Like literally all our sockets have it

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Looking forward to trying the iron out, although I don't think I currently have any outstanding soldering!

polar wraith
#

@indigo jetty Tom Scott is great! I love his videos!

indigo jetty
#

Yeah he's very fun!

polar wraith
#

Would love to meet him (and Matt) sometime....

abstract violet
#

@indigo jetty My parents worked/lived in the middle east when I was younger and had our house in the philippines built with all UK-standard stuff, all our electrial plugs/outlets etc looked like that! -- was frustrated mostly on lack of adapters but yeah ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
#

You can kind of stuff a EU plug in with a screw driver (don't do this)

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I thought it was just UK and Ireland!

polar wraith
#

The screwdriver seems like a phenomenally bad idea. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

indigo jetty
#

it's funny the screw driver just puts us on par with the US plug ๐Ÿ˜‚

#

You put it into the ground/earth plug to expose the live and neutral (as per toms video)

polar wraith
#

Still, messing with mains (110 or 220) makes me jumpy.

#

My son was electrocuted with 220 in Iraq (he survived but was unhappy).

indigo jetty
#

Funnily enough I worked with a electrician when I was younger and never got shocked

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Turned on a faulty lamp and got one ๐Ÿ˜

polar wraith
#

Ouch!

#

As Big Clive would say, "ooh, that's a bit of a tingle!"

indigo jetty
#

I normally leave it to the professionals now

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Haha

#

I would do the odd bits with relays

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I was thinking today that my dad's shop has good internet, so in a couple of weeks I'm going to try a stream

polar wraith
#

Cool! Be sure to post the link before you start!

indigo jetty
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Will do, you guys will probably be the only ones on

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๐Ÿ˜‚

polar wraith
#

Ah, Sonoffs! A la Andreas Spiess!

indigo jetty
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These are a device that have a relay and a esp8266 built in

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I was thinking of maybe doing the stream on them

polar wraith
#

That would be cool! I haven't really looked at them much, but I've been meaning to look into them to see how they might be used.

indigo jetty
#

yeah, im the same

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I have them a while

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I made this last year for my Christmas lights

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It was controlled via Alexa

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So I'm going to replace it with the sonoff

polar wraith
#

That's good! It would be interesting to get an overview of the Sonoff ecosystem and the different control capabilities it has... (FWIW)

indigo jetty
#

yup thats the plan hopefully

stuck moth
#

@flat lynx I'll need to pick it back up for the sombra skin

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I โค sombra

indigo jetty
#

still havent played since PUBG

stuck moth
#

@indigo jetty I can't play PUBG until I upgrade my gaming box

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just saw that intel is announcing details of their next gen on the 21st so I think I'll wait until then at least

indigo jetty
#

I'm very out of the PC component game but I hear a lot about AMD's Ryzen

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But yeah probably worth waiting

stuck moth
#

yeah, I was too until PUBG crashed on me

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now I'm realizing how large my back catelog on PC is ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

proven bramble
#

darn

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too bad theres no art channel

stuck moth
proven bramble
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oh oh okay

indigo jetty
#

The only other thing I would like to play at the moment is Doom

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It looks great

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and the soundtrack is amazing

#

I recorded a video od me using the TS100 for the first time, I'll probably upload it later if anyone wants to look at it, I wont be releasing the video unedited like that but if people are curious they are welcome to take a look

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I want to try using the other tip that came with it and also take a look at the firmware stuff for @abstract violet ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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First impressions are pretty good, im not really used to a conical tip anymore so I think i was making a bit of a mess of it

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but it feels very premium

#

The laptop cable (basically) coming out of it may take some getting used to (just so its not in the way)

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Might be one for adafruit to consider seeing as it is open source hardware

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Maybe even a Adafruit branded one ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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(although saying that i can't find all the stuff for it)

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is the circuitry

abstract violet
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@indigo jetty I like the sound of that 8)

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would help with the development and improvement.

runic elbow
abstract violet
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nice rhyme too

runic elbow
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I love Pikmin.

indigo jetty
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Feather for scale

abstract violet
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its pretty slim

indigo jetty
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Yeah it's very small

abstract violet
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you ok @stuck moth

stuck moth
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yeah

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talking to the bot

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deleted it now

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?showtimes

solar ridgeBOT
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3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell (YT only) - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
Desk of Tony D - Evenings PST Fridays

stuck moth
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ok @solar ridge is set up with a help for when shows are

elfin wave
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Just passed the technician class ham radio exam! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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Got 18/35 on the General which is pretty good considering I hadn't started learning about it yet.

stuck moth
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congrats @elfin wave !

hearty fiber
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I see glen campbell passed away, everyone should play wichita lineman on their echo in rememberance. @night crescent ๐Ÿ˜

dusty citrus
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on their echo? Just ask Alexa to play it?

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"Not in prime music" ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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Galveston is (playing a Glen Campbell mix now, thanks to Alexa)

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SIgh, and guess what, Witchita Lineman Is in the mix. #AlexaFail

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Filed a bug report with Alexa.

night crescent
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i was telling our team about glenn campell on monday

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i suggested everyone listen to witchita lineman

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what a song, what person, what a life

hearty fiber
sturdy hawk
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the news has lead me to rinestone cowboy that is a song I recognize.

bold turtle
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I wish there were such a thing as a coffee-proof laptop

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this is the third one my mother has managed to kill

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not happy

viral spruce
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@bold turtle the ol' thinkpads have trays for water underneath the keeboards

bold turtle
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@viral spruce not entirely convinced she wouldn't still find a way.. assuming I had the money for one RN anyway

viral spruce
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oh...yeah. I'm usually really gentle with computers (had my thinkpad for years and my macbook since '10 as a daily driver) so people spilling coffee on them I don't really relate to

upper fox
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@solar ridge ?whois @upper fox

stuck moth
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?whois @upper fox

solar ridgeBOT
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ElectricCrowbar#4873
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upper fox
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ah

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"Join Position"

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what is this slash dot?

sturdy hawk
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?whois @sturdy hawk

solar ridgeBOT
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CMfly#5506
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333279603357646848

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None

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viral spruce
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?whois @viral spruce

solar ridgeBOT
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brentr#8076
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311339734339289090

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ocean dagger
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@solar ridge ?tag vermont

solar ridgeBOT
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dynoError No tag vermont found.

viral spruce
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vermont?

ocean dagger
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Ya thats where I live. First thing that came to my mind

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@solar ridge ?tag create Vermont

solar ridgeBOT
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dynoError You must give a tag name and tag content.

viral spruce
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OOH, a fellow new englander o/ (I go to college in MA)

ocean dagger
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Oh nice I have quite a few clients from Mass, and know a lot of people who went to school there

viral spruce
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I like skiing vermont though, your mountains are nicer than NH

ocean dagger
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@solar ridge ?tag Vermont this is vermont content here

solar ridgeBOT
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dynoError No tag Vermont found.

ocean dagger
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@solar ridge ?tag create Vermont this is vermont content here

solar ridgeBOT
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dynoError You don't have permissions to create or edit this tag.

ocean dagger
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@solar ridge ?tag vermont content

solar ridgeBOT
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dynoError No tag vermont found.

ocean dagger
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@solar ridge ?modules

stuck moth
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I turned tags off because I don't know how they are used

ocean dagger
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Ya just grouping content

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@solar ridge yt phish the lizards

viral spruce
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@ocean dagger ...just realized your username is literally "chillin in vt"

ocean dagger
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@solar ridge ?queue

solar ridgeBOT
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**Command:** ?queue

Aliases: ?q
Description: List the songs in queue
Sub Commands:
?queue list - List the songs in the music queue.
?queue remove - Remove a song from the music queue.
?queue clear - Clears the entire music queue (Irreversable).
?queue repeat - Enable/disable repeating the music queue.
?queue shuffle - Shuffle the music queue.
Usage:
?queue list
?queue remove [number]
?queue clear
?queue repeat
?queue shuffle

ocean dagger
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@solar ridge ?queue list

solar ridgeBOT
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The queue is empty.

ocean dagger
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@solar ridge ?google adafruit

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Ya I am chillin in vt lol. Listening to tunes writing code....But I have to get back to work...ttyl

thin canopy
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?whois @solar ridge

tiny moat
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@whois @tiny moat

ancient rivet
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?make me a sandwich

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?sudo make me a sandwich

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meh

thin canopy
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@solar ridge ?home

proven olive
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?whois Andon

solar ridgeBOT
#
Andon#8175
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85813260359565312

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proven olive
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Huh, didn't realize I've been on Discord almost two years.

lost condor
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?whois @lost condor

solar ridgeBOT
#
JonXP#6453
ID

142375469633765376

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jaswope

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online

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Diablo 3

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lost condor
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Fun stuff

runic elbow
abstract violet
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Agh! wha

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where'd it go @runic elbow

runic elbow
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That's it.

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It's dirty and scratched.

runic elbow
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I heard banana peels also work. Weird thought.

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Thanks for the disc cleaning kit.

proven olive
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Glasses cleaning cloth to clean it up first, I'd say.

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I've had some disks with scratches and the like work fine after cleaning

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Hell, I took a hobby knife and made four huge, deep scores on a disk once, to see if it'd still work.

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Turns out, if you do inside to outside, it'll still work. It's the ones that go around with it that give problems.

tiny moat
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@whois AdamMcCombs

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?whois AdamMcCombs

solar ridgeBOT
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AdamMcCombs#8090
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334846605050249217

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None

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online

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None

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runic elbow
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Turns out the gamepad charger is also down. So I guess no Pkmin 3 regardless of how well I clean the disc.

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Should have gotten Pikmin 2 for the Wii when that was still a thing sold at walmart.

runic elbow
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How can I fix VGA on a computer not displaying anything? I wanted to install Dolphine on my PC to play Pikmin, but it won't show anything.

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It just randomly started to not display anything.

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I tried asking Google, but it was mostly just "Delete System32"

proven olive
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@runic elbow What do you mean, not displaying anything? IE, the computer itself doesn't show on that monitor at all?

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Are you running a multi-monitor setup?

runic elbow
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The monitor says "No input signal." This is a single monitor set up.

proven olive
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So, you start Dolphine and it does that? Or does the PC just display that all the time now?

runic elbow
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It does this on boot up. I heard about Dolphine, and went to turn on my PC so I could install it. It just says there Isn't any input. I press he power button, no signal.

proven olive
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OK.

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My first guess is to check the connections of the cable, both at the monitor and at the computer.

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If it's been loosened, you'll get no input.

runic elbow
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Both are connected. And srewed in.

proven olive
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Computer boots, right? Have you heard the boot beeps?

runic elbow
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Let me check.

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The disc drive flashed. And a few numbers on te faceplate turned on. No noises.

proven olive
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OK.

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Not all computers beep on startup anymore.

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My next thought is that the video card might be loose

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But I'm not an expert, so this is where I just start guessing.

runic elbow
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There is no video card. It is the VGA port directly on the board.

proven olive
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OK.

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How old is the computer and monitor?

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And... do you have a second monitor to try it on?

runic elbow
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Te monitor, I'm not sure. But the mahine was made sometime after Windows Vista.

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I tried a TV and a regular monitor.

proven olive
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TV has VGA input?

runic elbow
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Es.

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Yes*

proven olive
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And still, no input from the computer?

runic elbow
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Nope.

proven olive
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Alright. Do you have a different VGA cable to test?

runic elbow
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I tried two.

proven olive
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OK. Hmm.

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Sounds to me like there's an issue with the motherboard, but that's beyond my ability to remotely diagnose.

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Do you have a video card you could put in the machine?

runic elbow
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No.

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Actually, I might have an old machine with one.

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I was wrong.

proven olive
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It doesn't necessarily have to be a good one - If you can put one in and test it and it works, then you can go about acquiring something that's not terrible

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Well, sad to say, but I really don't know. I suspect something's wrong with the motherboard's integrated graphics, but I can't be certain.

runic elbow
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I might have another machine to try.

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I might not be allwed, though.

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I was correct.

proven olive
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"Can I take apart your computer?" "What, are you crazy?"

runic elbow
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It was more "You're not doing that right now"

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We don't even use the machine I want to try.

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My only option now is an old Windows XP machine.

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With half a gig of RAM. And a 1.4 ggahertz CPU. So that one is off the table.

proven olive
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I usually don't keep my computers on the table.

runic elbow
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I guess no Pikmin for me. Until I get either a new graphcs card. Or a new PC.

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I hope the Pi can emulate the Gameube. If not, then I officially give up.

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I also give up with touch screen keyboards.

proven olive
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RetroPi looks like it supports GameCube AND the original Wii

runic elbow
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Awesome! Alrigt, time to grab some Pikmin roms! First, I nee to wait for Raspbian to boot.

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And to smash the toch screen keyboard to pieces.

proven olive
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I found it easier to just grab a new SD card and the RetroPi pre-setup image.

runic elbow
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I need Raspban to get the roms. Because my PCs VGA port died.

proven olive
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Right.

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RetroPi makes the Pi appear on the network and you can just drop files into it from other devices.

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But if you don't have a PC to work with that, it's not quite as convenient.

runic elbow
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Nope.

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Does the USB system on the Pi usually not work withUSB storage, or is either my Pi or my USB defective?

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It detects it now, but I can't get the files.

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Ok, now it works.

proven olive
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I... haven't fiddled nearly as much with my Pis as I wish.

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Even though I have a B, 2, 3, Zero, Zero 1.3, and Zero W

runic elbow
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I can't the the Retropie folder.

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I also can't stand touch reen keyboards.

proven olive
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touchscreen keyboards are just awful.

runic elbow
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I am dangerously close to throwing my tablet across the room because of this keyboard.

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Also, Raspbian apparently can't read Retropie folders.

proven olive
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Strange

runic elbow
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Either that or it's corrupt.

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I can access the System Volume Information.

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Bu not the roms.

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Technology hates me today.

bold turtle
#

?whois ogredrew

solar ridgeBOT
#
ogredrew#6724
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181598986526916609

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None

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None

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bold turtle
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woohoo early adopter

runic elbow
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Does Retropie have an update for Gameube emulation, or can most emulators already run Gamecube games?

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I guess I'll find out when I put Pikmin on the USB.

thin canopy
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?list commands

runic elbow
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Nevermind. I fear the USB is corrupt.

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I give up.

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I want to play Pikmin, then the ROM USB corrupts, and my PC dies.

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Perfect.

gloomy pilot
#

?whois Trent

solar ridgeBOT
#
Trent#3569
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105725740481314816

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None

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online

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Left 4 Dead 2

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indigo jetty
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?whois Brian L

solar ridgeBOT
#
Brian L#1211
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179945794768470017

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None

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online

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None

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elfin wave
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that scrapes the discord api I assume? for "game" and all that

indigo jetty
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I assume so

sonic forge
#

?whois roadfun

solar ridgeBOT
#
roadfun#4192
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332561184538492928

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None

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online

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None

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sonic forge
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Couldn't resist

night crescent
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?whois adafruit

solar ridgeBOT
#
adafruit#3230
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329767998380310538

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None

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None

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night crescent
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?

#

?help

indigo jetty
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?showtimes

solar ridgeBOT
#

3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell (YT only) - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
Desk of Tony D - Evenings PST Fridays

indigo jetty
#

?whois adafruit

solar ridgeBOT
#
adafruit#3230
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329767998380310538

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None

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offline

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None

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indigo jetty
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Not sure what else works <@&327289013561982976>#3230

sonic forge
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?commands

ancient rivet
sonic forge
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If you do that ? Commands there will be a response out of band telling you the commands

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Shows up in the left side bar with a big D

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But disappears after you look at it

ancient rivet
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?rps paper

hearty fiber
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Stuff With Kirby#8486 ?randomcolor

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?randomcolor

fair summit
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I tried talking to @solar ridge by DM so as not to clutter up a chat, but it did not answer.

indigo jetty
#

How rude

abstract violet
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@fair summit I did the same but I guess it doesn't work that way?

stuck moth
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I turned off some of the commands

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?whois tannewt

solar ridgeBOT
#
tannewt#4653
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252717193496756235

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None

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dnd

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None

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stuck moth
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heh

thin canopy
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?status skynet

indigo jetty
#

The adafruit discord has been super busy the last couple of days hans

polar wraith
#

Yes it has. I woke up to a huge backlog of messages.

stuck moth
#

I've added:

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?showtimes-pacific

solar ridgeBOT
#

3D Hangouts - 8am Wednesdays
Show & Tell (YT only) - 4:30pm Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 5pm Wednesdays
Desk of Ladyada - Random hacker times
Desk of Tony D - Friday Evenings

stuck moth
#

?showtimes-gmt

solar ridgeBOT
#

3D Hangouts - 16:00 Wednesdays
Show & Tell (YT only) - 00:30 Thursdays
Ask an Engineer - 01:00 Thursdays
Desk of Ladyada - Random hacker times
Desk of Tony D - Early Saturday Mornings

indigo jetty
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Was the gmt for me Scott ๐Ÿ˜‚

stuck moth
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yeah, did I get the times right?

polar wraith
dire viper
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oooooh that is a known, awful, problem.

indigo jetty
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You did! Technically not gmt though ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Well maybe it is

stuck moth
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?

indigo jetty
stuck moth
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ah right

indigo jetty
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Probably covered in above video

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We are currently at gmt + 1

stuck moth
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its called something else during daylight savings

indigo jetty
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Til the last Sunday in October or something

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BST (British summer time?)