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this has been a wildly productive weekend
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Replying to @carlo2248
Thanks! The E-Book Wing comes to about $90~$120 for all the parts, depending on shipping. You can get most everything from Digikey, the screen from Good Display in China, and the printed circuit board from Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/products/joeycastillo/the-e-book-wing-pcb-bare-pcb/
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Replying to @groguard and @arturo182
oh awesome, thanks, I’ll do that! Giant board is super rad, thank you for making it :)
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Replying to @groguard and @arturo182
Is there any trick to getting the keyboard to work with the giantboard-blackberry image? I’ve been able to boot up, and I can see the login prompt on the TFT, but for some reason the keyboard isn’t working. (I know the keyboard is functional bc I tested it with another Feather)
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Replying to @josecastillo
Anyway, I’m sharing now, and it is pretty exciting! Even though I still have many things to learn and lots of work to do, I’m going to allow myself to feel excited just as long as I keep learning the things and doing the work. 2/2
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This is cool: the Open Book is featured in this month’s @HackSpaceMag, alongside several awesome Feather boards! I’ll be honest: I didn’t share when I first saw this. Seeing my thing next to these ambitious projects from people I admire really triggered my impostor syndrome. 1/2
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Replying to @audreydodgen
I would agree with this if I believed it could have made a difference at the time. Do we really believe this info would have fixed the federal response? Got the MAGA-ites to mask up? Forced a reckoning with R’s in Congress? It would have been “fake news” rants and lost in a week.
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Replying to @M_uh_lee
One, holy fucking WOW and I’m just a few paragraphs in. Two: LORDY, there are tapes. Three: HOW does Woodward get people to do this? I’d chalk it up to Trump being easily played, yet somehow he gets everyone to spill truly damaging stuff on tape, year after year. It’s impressive.
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Replying to @makermelissa, @arturo182 and @timonsku
I have so many scratched up e-paper displays, at this point my bad habits double as durability testing :)
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One man punched Democrat Nancy Nichols in the chest, she said, and three others pinned her husband against Tyler’s war memorial. Other armed men [clutched] rifles. “They were yelling Democrats are f—ing idiots and Democrats are demons,” recalled Nichols. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/protests-violence/2020/08/27/3f232e66-e578-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html
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Replying to @WesleyMcCraw
NARRATOR VOICE: They didn’t.
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A funny thing happened when I plugged in my new Keyboard FeatherWing from @arturo182: before I even uploaded a sketch, it started working! turns out the last sketch I had been running on this Feather, @travisgoodspeed’s LoRaHam, targets a touchscreen TFT on the same pins :)
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what’s the appropriate age for telling your kid that their gender reveal party caused a maiming / wildfire / tear in the fabric of space-time? https://twitter.com/anne_engineer/status/1303069044069801986
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Hope. https://twitter.com/JLustwerk/status/1302575976187138049
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new Memento-themed profile header image. feel free to steal this.
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Donald Trump: “I never called John [McCain] a loser and swear on whatever, or whoever, I was asked to swear on, that I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES.”
Also Donald Trump: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/622522682245033984
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something in South America looked off on the Planet Earth picture frame, so I pulled the latest imagery from GOES-East. Am I correct in my belief that that gray color is smoke rising from fires in the Amazon?
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Replying to @josecastillo
It’s weird to even call this out. Between his refusing to condemn murder, kids in cages, all the lies, the corruption — Russian bounties on American soldiers! — this is barely a blip in the unending Gish gallop of horror.
Just pick a horror, then vote for the Democrat to end it.
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This is not an Onion photoshop job. At least 185,000 Ameicans are dead due to the Trump administration’s coronavirus failure, and they’re wasting their time on childish stunts in the briefing room, all on the taxpayer’s dime. We have to #voteforthedemocrat and end this nightmare. https://twitter.com/Jordanfabian/status/1301569012942483456
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We need another #stophateforprofit month (or year) to fix this one. Facebook facilitated a gathering of armed militiamen in Kenosha. Users reported them. Facebook abetted them. Now two people are dead and every company still advertising there is complicit. https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/3/21418846/facebook-kenosha-gun-policy-change-the-terms-moderation
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Thanks so much to Adafruit (cc @anne_engineer, @kattni) for the Tiny Book mention in this week’s Python on Hardware newsletter! I’m super stoked on this project. Hope to be able to share more in the coming weeks :) https://twitter.com/adafruit/status/1301517561713041410
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Replying to @AlexGilbertson and @tindie
Just the display! No connector board required. This is the only part you should need to order from Good Display: https://zh-tw.buyepaper.com/products/42inch-e-inkanel-spi-interface-buy-eaper-display
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Replying to @tarahaelle
I guess what I’m saying is, I’ve lived my entire adult life feeling like I’m under attack from cruel people who hate me, and this tweet made me realize that I’ve never imagined what it would be like to see the world any other way, what my life would be like if I didn’t have that.
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Replying to @tarahaelle
I know my privilege colors my view of the world, and that homophobia is a different kind of scourge than centuries of institutional racism. But instinctively my pessimism is grounded in the knowledge that some of my countrymen hate me, and resent any small win we cobble together.
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Replying to @tarahaelle
I have this distinct memory of 2005, November, hanging out late at the Daily Texan with the first guy I ever dated, watching the returns for Prop 2, the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. I got to watch in real time as each county in Texas voted against us personally.
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Replying to @tarahaelle
i’ll admit, I read this earlier and scrolled past because it didn’t click immediately, but came back to the thought just now because I suddenly remembered the feeling that’s been baked into my experience all this time. It’s not our compatriots’ selfishness. It’s their cruelty.
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bad moon rising.
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Replying to @mattyigreene
this is the future liberals want
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A photo of you in January 2020 without imagining what was to come. https://twitter.com/jason_sweeten/status/1300588217843027968
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RT @tiredsierra: I was one of two medics on scene when the man who died last night was shot. I barely had time to begin an examination befo…
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Replying to @genuinebyte
yea ‘up next’ is like stuff to do this week, and in theory they move to ’today’ when I commit (tho sometimes I forget). I dunno, just figured I’d share because it’s the system that works for me :)
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Replying to @genuinebyte
I also vaguely orient it so that the things I want to prioritize are on the top. Like, Better Day being in the top left is a problem: I want to embark on a big rewrite of that app, but I haven’t made time for it, and it being there reminds me that I need to move it forward.
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Replying to @genuinebyte
The thing about projects is that often the work is ongoing. Like I have an “Open Book HW” task that was ‘done’ for a while, but then I wanted to make some revisions so it went back to “Up Next”. I know what the task is; the board just tells me which projects are getting priority.
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Replying to @genuinebyte
I have a board with little chits that I can slide around in columns; ideas move forward when I work on them, and fall backward from “today” to “this week” to “this month” and eventually “stagnant”. after they’ve been stagnant for too long enough I have to make some hard choices…
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This is not the most important election of our lifetimes. It’s the SECOND most important. The most important election was in 2016, and America is on the brink of a generation-defining fascist takeover because we (and maybe you personally!) fucked it up. Don’t fuck up again. #vote
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Replying to @janekm
I haven’t yet! I’ve seen some videos about making snap-fit enclosures in Fusion 360, but I haven’t yet had time to learn that tool. Screws just happen to be my aesthetic right now because it’s the thing I know I can make work :)
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Replying to @josecastillo
But tonight, for the first time, it seems to reliably route me on safer streets: Tompkins to Jefferson; DeKalb to Throop. Have I taught the Great Brain something new? Time, I suppose, will tell. 2/2
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Google Maps and I may have had a breakthrough tonight. For months it’s been routing me down Broadway for short trips in Brooklyn, sending me on a suicide mission each time I hop on my bike. I accept; then ride side streets in hopes of teaching its AI that’s not how it’s done. 1/2
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Replying to @josecastillo
To be clear: I hope I’m wrong, and all this is overblown. I hope we vote for the Democrat, Joe Biden takes office, and this autocratic attempt fails. But I also that recognize that this isn’t 2008. Hope isn’t enough to save you. You need to have a plan to save yourself. /thread
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Replying to @josecastillo
You may think this is farfetched. It’s not. We’ve lived through a long summer of relative peace & prosperity, but it’s an aberration in the history of the world. There’s a natural psychological tendency to underestimate the threat of calamity. But look around. Winter is here. 9/?
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Replying to @josecastillo
I’m also thinking about the fact that our laws to some extent constrain the violence we face, and even then we’re seeing local police abet extrajudicial killings by right wing militias. In a breakdown of constitutional order, this could get worse. Recognize the warning signs. 8/?
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Replying to @josecastillo
The thinking bit is important. You don’t want the first time you think about these things to be as they’re happening to you. Consider other life experiences and hardships and how you reacted to them; make a plan so you can be strong and resilient when the bad thing happens. 7/?
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Replying to @josecastillo
Keep a full tank of gas and a bag packed in case your situation becomes untenable. Have a plan (friends? family?) for where you’d go in that instance. Mentally prepare yourself for what it would mean to leave your home and not return for a while. Just sit with that thought. 6/?
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Replying to @josecastillo
I’m also looking at redundant methods of communication (mesh networking, radio). Will Donald Trump will try to shut down cell networks? I hope not. But fortune doesn’t favor the hopeful; fortune favors the prepared, and being prepared is how you’re going to get through this. 5/?
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Replying to @josecastillo
If you talk to or about friends who protest, upgrade your operational security NOW. No phone or SMS; only Signal. Lock down privacy settings for location & photos. I know it’s your First Amendment right to protest. We’re planning for a world where that no longer protects you. 4/?
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Replying to @josecastillo
Generally speaking I’m also mindful of where I want to be for this. There’s safety in numbers. I plan to ride out the storm with roommates that I trust, but if you have the option of staying with family, that might be wise. I would not choose to live alone in the early days. 3/?
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Replying to @josecastillo
Physically, some of this feels like preparing for a hurricane, minus the bottled water. Imagine curfews or general strikes: do you have enough shelf stable goods to feed you and your family if you can’t get to the grocery store? Locks on doors and windows? A security system? 2/?
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It occurs to me that my exhortations to prepare (for the end of America / beginning of an extraconstitutional autocratic order) haven’t come with concrete recommendations, i.e. what one might do to prepare. To be clear: I’m not an expert. But this is what I’m doing. (thread; 1/?)
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Regardless of the result you should think about this now. What does your life look like after the breakdown of constitutional order? Whether you plan to protest or stay home and keep your family safe, YOU SHOULD PLAN NOW. It will be harder in the shock of the immediate aftermath. https://twitter.com/BrynnTannehill/status/1299305312256757761
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
I’m so sorry you’re going through this and I dunno if it’ll help, but I super duper appreciate you and all you share here—not just the work, but your life and experiences (and yes, cat pics)! In a dark year, you brighten my day constantly. I hope things get better for you soon ❤️
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