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Replying to @josecastillo
100 down, 300 to go. My tester / flasher is a bit temperamental; I really would like to be able to do more than one board a minute. And this is only step one of three. IDK. Less labor intensive than before, but still more labor intensive than I’d like.
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IT IS TIME. Just about 400 Sensor Watch boards, all assembled and bagged up in panels. Boards by @PCBWayOfficial; parts by @MouserElec and @digikey; final PCBA by @MakeAugusta. Today’s plan: depaneling and preliminary tests. More steps required, but these WILL ship in September.
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Replying to @MakeAugusta and @HerrSparkles
True power can only come from voltage and current multiplied.
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in reaction to TFG trying to steal nuclear secrets, I asked DALL-E for the “this is fine” dog sitting in front of a mushroom cloud. the model’s weakness with text ended up yielding a pitch perfect caption.
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Replying to @oakdevtech
oh no, the screenshot is deadly real; apparently he was live-posting his plans for the past several days https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1557853406055636992
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Replying to @josecastillo
(if anyone at either twitter or the FBI is reading this, plz to relax; it’s a William Carlos Williams joke)
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This is just to say
if you don’t hear from me
it is true I tried attacking
the FBIForgive me
I thought I had a way
through bullet proof glass
and I didn’t
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Also! Wow. What gobsmackingly fortuitous timing: guess what just knocked on my front door? FedEx with the @PCBWayOfficial sponsored Open Book boards AND the PCBA’ed castellated e-paper modules! More to talk about at show and tell, in just one hour’s time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9cZ8NPvfKU
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Replying to @josecastillo
In particular I’m excited to share some never-before-seen notes on this SEG0 trace on the FeatherWing, and how it relates to LCD glass routing, power consumption & code simplicity. You wouldn’t think it from looking at it, but there’s a lot there. Join us! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9cZ8NPvfKU
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Wow I have not been promoting this enough. Join me and @attiegrande in just over two hours for a very exciting Show and Tell session! I have some new low power things to share, plus some tricks I learned building the LCD Wing, and more! 5:00 EDT, be there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9cZ8NPvfKU
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full credit to @Foone and the death generator
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Replying to @tinkrmind
I don’t know the answer to that but it raises an interesting question: is recognition from the UN a hard requirement for being considered a nation?
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Replying to @wmsrite
Honestly I was worried the whole time that someone was going to try to “liberate” it.
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Super stoked to be joining @attiegrande tomorrow at 11 PM CEST / 5 PM EDT to chat about… well, I dunno exactly! Designing a custom LCD for sure, tricks I learned making the wing, and some new low power stuff I’m hacking on. What else do you think we should cover? Let us know! https://twitter.com/AttieGrande/status/1556414004997902336
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Replying to @josecastillo
Battery test, day 273: 2.88 volts. I missed day 270 because I was traveling; either way, this gets us solidly to the 3/4 mark of the yearlong battery test with the old, less efficient firmware. (at day 168, my everyday wear watch with the new firmware has been at a stable 3.07 V)
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I was proud to represent the Republic of Zaqistan at this weekend’s micronation summit in Las Vegas. I also visited the Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia: a small nation whose territory consists of a two-pound obsidian stone that packs easily in its official state briefcase.
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So this is a thing we’re doing.
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Replying to @tahnok
Hopefully I can get my summer schedule sorted by this fall. 🤞🏽
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My summer schedule is so barely off. Packing up my New York workbench during HOPE; now in Vegas one week too early for DEFCON. Someday I aspire to attend an in-person event.
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Replying to @spencerbyw
That’s a great question! I think the main thing I might do differently has to do with low power: I could probably radically increase the efficiency of the gadget by using standby modes, which in turn would let me use a much smaller battery for a more compact & lightweight design.
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Replying to @josecastillo
I’m so stoked to have a product in Adafruit’s shop, not least because I feel like over the years Adafruit taught me how to make a product the way they make a product, which is a pretty good way to go about it. And it still feels surreal that that’s my gadget w/ an Adafruit label!
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Replying to @josecastillo
Scaling up from building a few to building a few hundred involves testing. Here again: watching Adafruit’s weekly manufacturing footage and following their guides, I knew enough to know how to build a jig that lets me test and pack 50 boards an hour. https://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-build-a-testing-fixture?view=all
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Replying to @josecastillo
It goes without saying that the Feather ecosystem, also an Adafruit innovation, was a huge part of this product. But Feathers has always been my go-to boards for projects, from the eBook FeatherWing to (in ancient times) the Feather-based Hiking Log: https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1178833525694439426
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Replying to @josecastillo
This really was an Adafruit-enabled venture: the genesis of the wing was a Great Search segment from this past February, where Ladyada found a low-cost I2C LCD driver: https://youtu.be/H55Ljn8ya3Y?t=996
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a few weeks ago it occurred to me to look back and find my first Adafruit order. This feels like graduation day: in April of 2014 I bought a kit with the tools I’d need to build electronics. In August of 2022, I have a product for sale in Adafruit’s store: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5581
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Replying to @josecastillo
(i’m still working on step three, but everyone i know who’s gotten this far seems to be doing pretty ok)
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step one: start doing the work.
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Replying to @bitshiftmask
I think I get what you’re saying; it feels like all of the benefits I get from working close to the bare metal (where I just have a couple of interrupt sources to prioritize and my handlers don’t do much), but that those paradigms work even when you scale up to a real RTOS or OS.
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Replying to @bitshiftmask
Not a silicon guy so I have no idea what about it makes it so impressive, but this morning I had to touch some NVIC-oriented code on a Cortex M0+ gadget, and I was kind of blown away by how simple it was to do something that I frankly expected to be way more complex.
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RT @AlpenglowInd: We have BIG news! We’re doing our first in-person show on Aug 27/28 and will have a booth at @SiliConSJ ! We’re bringin…
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Replying to @captainwonkish and @adafruit
Oh cool! In hindsight I should have sent them an extra one fully assembled for product shots; I sent some photos, but they’re against a high key white background which doesn’t match Adafruit’s product photography style.
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Replying to @DavidGlaude and @OyeItzama
I have encountered those (in fact I’ve encountered one with that exact tag) and I can say definitively that they DO NOT work. They mostly copied the internals, and things kinda fit, but the LCD screen is routed differently so the display is just gibberish, totally incompatible.
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Replying to @femtoduino
I think a lot about how poorly thought out technology changes human behavior so massively and without oversight. We deploy a mistake to seven billion people, and now a generation learns to cover their skin to appease an algorithm? I want to move to the forest and never come back.
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it makes me sad that this very happy one year anniversary post will not be seen, because twitter erroneously thinks the video in the quoted tweet is explicit. I’ve appealed three times now; it’s just my hands pressing buttons, but I don’t think the appeal system is meant to work.
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Sensor Watch: one year ago today. Movement, the community firmware, wouldn’t be an idea for 2 more months, and the crown jewel of my firmware dev was an app that said “Hello there”. Today the watch supports up to 29 watch faces, thanks to efforts from nearly a dozen contributors. https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1422306390064963586
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Replying to @OyeItzama
I do not know — haven’t had a chance to disassemble one yet — but when I hear ‘smaller’ I get worried it might not work. The circuit board is a very specific shape and thickness, and so far only the F-91W and A158 have proven compatible.
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Replying to @marcochsner and @Twitter
We need like a shared google doc with all of the a/b testing flags, so we can opt ourselves in and out of them. @atomicthumbs posted about a few:
https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1536479589660172288
https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1548799792150548480
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Replying to @josecastillo
Like I’m reading a thread of a cool build, and cursing audibly at my phone every time a video fails to play inline.
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What fresh hell is @Twitter’s redesign of videos on mobile web? they take over my full screen and get covered in text, I think to look more like TikTok? I’m not tapping on any videos til they fix this — not as a boycott, just because the redesign makes them unwatchable.
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Replying to @DHammarskjold
haha so close: I was looking at a PMIC that had dedicated 100 mA and 500 mA modes, and relishing the knowledge that USB devices can only draw 100 mA until negotiating for up to 500 mA. A requirement that almost all of my USB devices blissfully violate every day, and all day long.
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Replying to @SimonSapin and @bitshiftmask
The spec author MAY give you stern side-eye if you implement something you REALLY SHOULD NOT.
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The spec is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual “rules”.
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A perfect description of this technology: “The reason Facebook became ‘Meta’ was to pivot to the metaverse, which is like a version of Neopets, except you get to be the Neopet, there is less to do, everything costs money and nobody is allowed to fuck.” https://defector.com/meta-is-desperate/
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Replying to @Hec_Garrido
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Replying to @rohansingh
I have a whole note in Apple Notes titled “helpful commandline incantations” with builds of oft-used utilities embedded inline.
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I’m in this photo and I’m at peace with it. https://twitter.com/andreyzagoruiko/status/1552086187489107969
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I love reading the fare rules.
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Replying to @twilliability, @adafruit, @MakeAugusta and @tindie
It’s kinda simple: just the electronics piece for an outdoor art installation. It has to light up at night, and then charge back up during the day, since we have no access to external power. This is just for some initial tests to see how much battery and solar panel we need.
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Replying to @azzeloof and @makingtolearn
In the context of art and design of jewelry, I might answer the “what is the openness for” question differently. Like maybe it’s for you to make my bracelet in your size to wear, but not to make it in everyone’s size to sell. I might well call CC-BY-NC “open source” in that case.
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Replying to @azzeloof and @makingtolearn
I think it might be appropriate, and FWIW the definition of open-source changes depending on context. Like for me, copyleft makes sense for hardware, but I’d never license code as GPL; I think for SW, permissive licenses like MIT are better for open source. Others might disagree.
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