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RT @tarahaelle: Read this thread. Convey these realities to people in your circles. This will be the most important election in my lifetime…
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okay this is just superbly awesome. https://twitter.com/helenleigh/status/1299347845112385537
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Replying to @MattPackwood and @adafruit
It’s largely this code, with a few tweaks to remove PyPortal-specific stuff and make it monochrome. The display “just works” like any built in displayio display; the one difference is you have to tell it to refresh with a call to board.DISPLAY.refresh() https://learn.adafruit.com/making-a-pyportal-user-interface-displayio?view=all
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Replying to @beriberikix
That’s the one! And they include both screen and touchscreen flex connectors with your order.
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Replying to @josecastillo
one last thought actually. I’m not great at design, but I’m proud of the improved fit and finish of my enclosures lately. Like, is this nice like an iPhone? No way! But for DIY aesthetics on a cheap 3D printer that fell down some stairs once, it ain’t bad. https://www.tinkercad.com/things/ljtrp1JbOzV
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Replying to @brentrubell
Oh wow, it is kind of exactly the right size, isn’t it!
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Replying to @josecastillo
For now, if you want to build along at home, all the design files live here; it’s OSO-TIBO-B1-00. I’ll add the CircuitPython board definition in a bit. B2-00, I haven’t built yet: it’s a 2nd screen concept that’s v experimental (and probably a silly idea). https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book/tree/master/Tiny%20Book
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
Thanks and so true! Not knowing is the first step on the way to figuring it out :)
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Replying to @josecastillo
So I’m realizing: I need to redesign as a Feather board. Either SAMD51J or ESP32-S2. Imagine using this with a LoRa wing for radio stuff, or controlling a power relay. So many options! And if I can keep it simple, maybe this is a gadget that I could look into having manufactured.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Anyway. As soon as I saw this I wanted to add all kinds of sensors and peripherals to this. And I did include STEMMA ports, GPIO and I2C. But I realized — back to the original prompt — the thing that made the Open Book so powerful was its Feather compatibility. Which this lacks.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Touch adds a whole other dimension to this. The refresh, I can speed up. But wow the possibilities. Simple GUIs, swipe gestures, drawing if I can nail down partial refresh. This demo is in #CircuitPython with the Adafruit_FocalTouch library; it just worked :)
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Replying to @josecastillo
The first tiny book (left) wasn’t as tiny as it could have been, mostly because I needed to add some capacitive touch pads to allow for user input. Then Good Display made a touchscreen version of their 2.7” e-paper display, and that kind of changed everything.
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so, tiny book. a thread. Yeah I couldn’t help myself. I made another one. It’s funny, I’m simultaneously stoked about this object, and a little embarrassed at how far I had to wander from the original prompt in order to find my way back to the right idea (which isn’t quite this).
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ADVISORY: if you show up in my feed with negative things to say about the Democrats that hope to defeat fascism on Nov 3, I’m not gonna debate you. I’m just gonna hold you up as a bad example, possibly with a loud bell yelling “shame”. Argue with me AFTER you #voteforthedemocrat. https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1299343285916446726
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Replying to @beslayed and @JoeBiden
Having said that, I recognize that I’m not going to convince you. So I won’t.
TO EVERYONE ELSE: Don’t be like this guy. The Democratic platform is more progressive than ever before. Fighting for good now doesn’t mean you can’t fight for better later. Let’s win and keep fighting.
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Replying to @beslayed and @JoeBiden
I’m afraid you are the one who has it backwards. I sense you did four years ago too. By losing in 2016, the courts are now packed with judges that will ensure the defeat of progressive priorities for the rest of our adult lives. Instead we are living through the direst injustice.
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Replying to @beslayed and @JoeBiden
To pick but one example, human beings are being held in concentration camps in America even as we speak. Ending that would be a success, and not a slight one. Smugness doesn’t end suffering. Losing doesn’t ameliorate the harm. Let’s win, & then push as hard as we can for justice.
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I had the realization tonight that we aren’t waiting for November 3rd. America has ended. It’s already happened here. We may be able to elect Joe Biden and salvage some semblance of what was. But we will be doing it from a place where the American experiment failed, full stop. https://twitter.com/learyreports/status/1299133445331918850
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Replying to @TrentonEmory
It is scary. Back when there was a taboo on, y’know, double homicide, we could at least muster shared outrage over this. Now a big chunk of the nation is fine with murdering protesters in cold blood. I see them on Twitter. We could have a Kent State a night and they’d justify it.
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i must confess i’ve been focused on work to the exclusion of everything else this week; I’m only now catching up on what’s happening. What the fuck. And Tucker Carlson defending the murder on television? Something has broken. Things have been bad before, but this feels different. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1298755440889565185
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Replying to @AndrewVall and @fast_code_r_us
But this isn’t something I have finished at this time; as of now, I have a python script that can convert markdown to a specific file that Babel can work with, but that’s not a final answer. The device should be able to parse and display common formats, we’re just not there yet.
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Replying to @AndrewVall and @fast_code_r_us
It’s very early in my thinking on this (hence the separate branch to play with ideas) but my instinct has been to aim for a minimal subset of formatting, and perhaps at first an option to link to images and display them full screen, given the resolution and bit depth constraints.
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Replying to @AndrewVall and @fast_code_r_us
This all comes down to software support; we have to write or adapt code to accomplish these things. I have a branch of Babel where I’m working on using Unicode noncharacters as formatting codes; it could be possible to adapt an HTML parser to work with it. https://github.com/joeycastillo/babel/tree/textformat
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Replying to @bigjoshlevine
Brick and mortar operations, I mean; Tinkersphere is still selling online. But the days of biking over the bridge for some quick parts are over :(
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Replying to @bigjoshlevine
I might take you up on that! Sadly the pandemic forced Tinkersphere (and the coffee shop next door) to shut down their retail operations. Difficult times.
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Replying to @RickRab and @TROPHYBAR
😢
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big Big Board news. No, it’s not done (almost!), but while working on it, I noticed that COVID-19 has knocked Tuberculosis out of the top nine. In short: this virus, which didn’t exist a year ago, is on track to kill more people in 2020 than any other infectious disease on Earth.
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well, crap. Does anyone know where one might buy plain old 1/4-watt through-hole resistors in NYC on a sunday afternoon? Did not expect that want of a resistor value would stop my work in its tracks :/
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Replying to @sircoolio and @joshu
Not perfect but not the worst. The glue dries down to almost nothing, just a thin layer, but there’s still some diffusion effect happening. Still wiring up letters, will know for sure when I get more LEDs in place.
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oh look another once in a lifetime event to round out the week. To whoever’s running this show, I could use a few fewer superlatives in 2021. thanks. https://twitter.com/orlandosentinel/status/1296935348031885312
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Replying to @tarahaelle and @EmilyHenry
I kind of liked “a landscape whose true geology was not stone but fear,” maybe because it was such a timeless description of America
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Replying to @timonsku
I guess in my book, a small win is better than a huge loss; whereas for others, the small wins haven’t added up to nearly enough. They want a revolution. And I’m all for that. But first I want a win.
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Replying to @timonsku
FWIW I’m not trans but I am a gay dude who voted for Obama in 2008 (when he opposed gay marriage). We won, then we pushed left, and in the end I feel we bent the world toward justice. Having said that, I get that some folks feel left out of that; I understand the disillusionment.
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Replying to @timonsku
there’s a certain brand of progressive that would rather lose with purity than compromise to win. another still that would rather burn down the world to build a more just one on the ashes. This is not how politics (or building toward justice) works. but I’ve met folks like this.
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“For Trump, the purpose of politics is cruelty — to validate his supporters, and his supporters alone, by hurting the people they hate. For Biden, the purpose of politics is caring — to use the mechanisms of self-government to help ordinary people.” https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/21/21394980/joe-biden-dnc-2020-summary-kindness
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Replying to @jo3rw
fortunately, trump doesn’t have the legal authority to do this. unfortunately, my bingo card also has “trump brazenly violates the law and faces no consequences”, so it’s tough to say
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dusted off the old Tiny Book prototype to get some work done on display modes for 2.7" e-paper displays. Success, plus a better understanding of partial refresh modes that I can backport to the main Open Book display driver.
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Replying to @joshu
yep, and the GOP is recruiting 50,000 operatives for this one, to say nothing of the boogaloo boys that the president is dog-whistling at. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-recruits-army-poll-watchers-fight-voter-fraud-no-can-n1217391
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You may think I’m exaggerating when I say “it is happening here.” I’m not. November 3rd could be the end of America. Think NOW about what your life looks like on the other side of that. Protesting? Surviving? Helping those you love? Plan now. Don’t be caught off guard on the 4th. https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1296627473342517248
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Replying to @tarahaelle
I picked up Blood Meridian a couple of weeks ago, which is… not escapism.
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my 3D printer is too small to do this in one shot. Is this the best way to build my enclosure? IDK. I just know some projects demand careful design and rigorous implementation, while others can be held together with duct tape and cron jobs. theres an art to knowing which is which
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It is happening here. https://twitter.com/_HeatherWalker/status/1296122043772133382
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Replying to @tomfleet and @pocketmt
i’m not sure anyone wants to see my mess of a life that close up 🙃 but we’ll see
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Replying to @joshu
i’m just going to assume GPT-3 guessed your iCloud password and logged itself in
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RT @BarackObama: Do make a plan right now for how you’re going to vote and vote early, by mail or in person: http://iwillvote.com https:…
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this was a good morning project. Babel -> LVGL glue code. Means that now I have Unifont glyphs for the entire basic multilingual plane whenever I make an lvgl interface (something I hope to be doing more of soon) https://github.com/joeycastillo/babel/blob/master/src/lv_babel.cpp
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Replying to @issackelly
I completely hear this! Another piece that helped me was this by my colleague @tarahaelle, who wrote about how our brains are processing our current situation of stress and ambiguous loss (and about finding ways to stay fulfilled). https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c
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lately when i feel angst or worry or impostor syndrome, i try to distract myself by doing more work. i recognize this is probably not sustainable. but burnout is a tomorrow problem (and I’m banking on our collective tomorrow problems being big enough to distract from that too)
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Replying to @joshu
yep! we’ll see tomorrow if it was clever or foolish.
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RT @miniver: Portrait of 2020 from @noahberger3884
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