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Replying to @josecastillo
Hard mode works! Wordle 221 4/6*
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Replying to @josecastillo
it’s 12:04 AM and I’ve had a few glass slippers. Do I dare to wordle early?
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a feral car honks at my bike.
Shout, the first: “Red light, dude.
Shout, the second: “Now we both get to wait at this red light.”
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Replying to @gvy_dvpont
exactly!
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Replying to @josecastillo
hard mode’s back on. I think I just like playing the game this way. Wordle 220 4/6*
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wait what? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
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need to flash some code onto something; when did my “debug tools” bin come to contain nothing but a pair of pliers and some sandpaper?
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RT @em_aytch: twitter lately kind of like
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Replying to @timonsku
thanks Timon, that’s great advice! This week is just especially tough because it’s personal and professional; just a lot of things that need doing. But I’ll try my best to treat myself well :)
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Replying to @Zabbiemeister, @emmafletcher, @MakeAugusta, @CRImierTech and @SD_Robotics
I did do one (ancient!) prototype with a black/white/yellow screen; the problem at the time was that for tri-color e-paper, screen refresh took >10s. Too slow for reading. I even tried pushing faster waveforms for single-color/partial updates. No luck. Unsure if this has changed.
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Replying to @josecastillo
actually maybe I could have. But breaking the hard-mode rule helped.
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Replying to @josecastillo
I must confess, I’m glad I turned off hard mode earlier. I don’t think I would have gotten there without line 3. Wordle 219 4/6
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Replying to @josecastillo
(I’m doing the best I can to keep up, but it feels like I’m balanced on a knife’s edge, barely accomplishing everything that needs doing in exactly the hours available in a day. this is a vague way of saying I’m sorry if I’m behind on a reply or a task. I’ll get there, I promise)
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my life in a gif
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Replying to @ayourtch
You don’t need an NFT, you can just mint a physical token. There’ll only ever be one, so it’s not fungible, and folks can pay each other money in exchange for the token. (naturally you retain full use of your soul the whole time, but the token people don’t care about that really)
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Replying to @Zabbiemeister, @emmafletcher, @MakeAugusta, @CRImierTech and @SD_Robotics
tbh development plateaued during the pandemic/chip shortage; where I left off it’s just plain UTF-8 text in any language, but you still had to convert it to a platform-specific OBK format. The goal was TXT. Still is when I return to it. And I’d build the software differently now.
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Replying to @mudlock
That’s a very good point; I tend to play by hard mode rules, but it could be nice to have the option in a pinch.
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Replying to @josecastillo
this one wasn’t a fair win, tbh; I accidentally saw a tweet earlier that could be considered a hint. For completeness, though: Wordle 218 2/6
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i’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. fleets of retweets prefixed with an RT and a colon. catacombs of dead links to failed URL shorteners. #hashtags glistening in 140 characters of glory. so many takes that will be lost in time, like tears in rain. #MyTwitterAnniversary
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Replying to @josecastillo
question: isn’t hard mode better? It means no wasted guesses, right? Feels like it gets you there faster. Anyway: Wordle 217 3/6*
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Replying to @getur
Thank you!!
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Replying to @josecastillo
This was a jam-packed hour full of Sensor Watch goodness: lots of demos, great questions from the community, and even some real talk about how to do the work while staying true to your values. Thanks so much to Helen for a lively conversation! See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sTPpKJ8WvA
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Replying to @josecastillo
I also shared the Sunrise/Sunset face, plus new UI for setting user location! (You’ll notice the sunset for Portland at the end is wrong; that’s because I accidentally flipped the sign when entering the latitude, so it was showing us sunset for a spot in the South Pacific. oops!)
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Replying to @josecastillo
We spoke about issues of planetary importance. #WhatAboutPluto? #TeachTheControversy!
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Replying to @josecastillo
We also did some awesome machine learning stuff with @EdgeImpulse and an @adafruit QT Py ESP32-S2! This was a great way to start talking about some of the things I hope we can do with on-device ML and (hopefully!) a post-campaign accelerometer board inside of Sensor Watch.
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What a delight it was to chat with @helenleigh of @crowd_supply yesterday! If you missed the livestream, I’ll post a link at the end of this thread, along with a few moments from our conversation. The big reveal on this stream: @a2’s Sensor Watch Emulator! https://sensor-watch.netlify.app
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Replying to @josecastillo
surprisingly relevant episode, if only as a cutely optimistic take on people. Their tech was lying to them, but then someone explained as much, and they… accepted it? And adjusted their behavior based on factual information? Staggeringly LOLworthy fiction.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisions_(Stargate_SG-1)
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watching an old episode of Stargate SG-1: “Their home is a bubble that’s collapsing!”
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in which pocket do you keep your pocket supercomputer?
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Replying to @josecastillo
TOTP generation test: https://totp.danhersam.com
Sunrise and sunset in NYC: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york
Sunrise and sunset in Portland: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/portland-or
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HAPPENING NOW! In a reply, I’ll share some HANDY LINKS to have open during the stream, if you want to follow along at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sTPpKJ8WvA
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Replying to @josecastillo
Always green! Wordle 216 5/6*
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Happening in one hour’s time! This session is going to be jam-packed. I sense that it’s also going to be like 90% live demo, featuring a lot of code I just finished at like 1:00 AM last night. Tune in and see what happens! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sTPpKJ8WvA
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Replying to @nebelgrau77 and @rustembedded
With a couple of small tweaks to the L22’s SVD, I was able to use svd2rust to generate a Rust API for register accesses. But I didn’t know enough about Rust to clean it up and make it presentable / turn it into a crate. I sense it would be quick work for someone more in the know!
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Replying to @josecastillo
It fits, it runs (fast!), and the coordinates look pretty close to me. Alas I didn’t nail down all the math tonight. This algo gives me the planets’ positions on a grid with the sun at the center, but I want to know where it is in the sky on earth. Still, it feels like I’m close.
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feeling more optimistic about fitting the solar system on the watch. Found an implementation of the algorithm for calculating planets’ positions, with a truncated “micro” version that shrinks the code by 2 orders of magnitude (at the cost of some accuracy) https://github.com/gmiller123456/vsop87-multilang
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Replying to @highenergybeams
just the three, but its coordinates are in heliocentric ecliptic space, and I’ll only find my way out once I figure out where it is in geocentric equatorial space. I should call it a night and bike home; at least I know where that is 🙃
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Replying to @wileycwj
I think it may actually be unrelated to my problem (which has to do with converting between coordinate systems), but it popped up while I was searching and it made me question tonight’s decisions…
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biked back to the shop to play with some code in advance of tomorrow’s livestream; three hours later, this is how far I am down the rabbit hole
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Replying to @MattTexEckerle
Thanks so much for these pointers! The libastro library looks like it might be just what I’m looking for.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Literally fist pumped for this one. Wordle 215 3/6*
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Replying to @crowd_supply, @adafruit and @EdgeImpulse
Thanks!! And what can I say, I think there are new frontiers of coolness yet to come 😎
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Replying to @josecastillo
Kudos to the Edge Impulse folks for making this super easy; I asked a question on the forum last night, and one of the folks pointed me to the API, which came with examples in Python. So of course, I coded my uploader in #CircuitPython! Code at the link :) https://forum.edgeimpulse.com/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-forward-data-for-training-via-on-device-wifi/3499
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okay now I’m REALLY untethered! I have Sensor Watch streaming accelerometer data to an @adafruit QT Py ESP32-S2 via UART. Pressing its button triggers 10 seconds of data acquisition; then it automatically posts the logged data to @EdgeImpulse for training. The things we can do!
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It’s true: tomorrow at noon west coast time (3:00 PM for you east coasters) I’ll be live-streaming a @crowd_supply Teardown Session from the workshop of @the_prepared! We’ll talk about all these things and more; I may even have a surprise or two planned :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sTPpKJ8WvA https://twitter.com/crowd_supply/status/1484268664073244672
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Sensor Watch Update: Week Two! In which the watch goes on a bike ride and a camping trip, and we discuss the high tech behind its low-power prowess. I also answer a few backer questions, and pose a question of my own: is there an astronomer in the house? https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-watch/updates/week-two-your-questions-my-questions-and-a-camping-trip
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Replying to @DarkangelNexus
yea I saw that… the genesis of this post was that the SAM D10 is in stock, and my idea could actually work with that one! but its MOQ of 5,000 was still out of reach, and not nearly as funny. https://www.microchipdirect.com/product/ATSAMD10D14A-UUT
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On the plus side, they’ve patented it? So as long as I opt out of Meta, nobody else can do this future to me. (for now) https://twitter.com/hypervisible/status/1483662598671421442
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Replying to @josecastillo
coming back. Wordle 214 4/6
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yesterday was staggeringly productive. Let’s keep it going.
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