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Replying to @josecastillo
five thousand six hundred iterations and the algorithm has settled on something that I find kind of boring tbh. the glowing turquoise channels do have something going for them, but the early iterations really nailed the prompt, I think.
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Replying to @josecastillo
something wild happened at iteration three thousand one hundred, or in epoch three, I suppose. the character of the generated image changed, from two dimensional and expressionist to three dimensional and… I’m not sure yet, I suppose. anyway. the iterations continue.
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Replying to @josecastillo
two thousand three hundred iterations in. I will admit, I was not sure what it was going for at first, but I am starting to see what it sees. bits of green matrix code splitting apart a colorless sky.
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Replying to @josecastillo
in a brazen act of meta, I have — via the sky — commanded the cloud supercomputer to hallucinate for me “a three mile wireless link to lower Manhattan”
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Replying to @josecastillo
dang. apparently the future requires CUDA and my particular brand of personal supercomputer doesn’t have an NVIDIA GPU. so now I’m connected to a supercomputer in the cloud (is colab seriously free? really?) to play with ML toys up there. still on three mile wifi, of course.
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decided to play with some machine learning toys and forgot that I’m connected to the NYC mesh, so I’m literally beaming artificial intelligence tech to my laptop via a three-mile wifi link to lower Manhattan and I have to say, the future is occasionally kind of rad.
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
other than that, for years (since it was Hoefler & Frere-Jones!) I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy Numbers. I never have a design project that cries out for it, but just look at it! I’m sure that having these in my library would inspire something. https://www.typography.com/fonts/numbers/overview
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
in terms of monospace fonts I love GNU Unifont for its staggering ambition. one font to rule them all, with bitmap glyphs for every language: ancient, modern, dead, living, fictional, constructed. it’s the font that inspired the Open Book. https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
I also adore Avenir; in college I fell in love with the ultra light weight, but over the years I’ve come to appreciate the whole family.
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
Gotham is a bit overexposed (and it’s tough for me to shake the political associations) but I find Gotham Rounded delightful, with a wide range from playful to authoritative. https://www.typography.com/fonts/gotham-rounded/overview
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Replying to @josecastillo
actually huh I take it back, my parts somehow made it from Fargo to Sioux Falls between 7:51 PM and 7:36 AM; no flights in that timeframe, but it is a three and a half hour drive on I-29. so, new best guess: they’re still in Sioux Falls, and they’ll fly to Louisville later today.
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Replying to @josecastillo
I’m the kind of nerd that can meta-nerd out over the staggering, globe-spanning logistics chain that’s going to shuttle bits of gadget between cities on opposite sides of the earth, so that I can build a series of blinking lights this week.
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last night my Digikey parts flew Freight Runners Express 1412 to Fargo (and maybe UPS 491 to Louisville, but that’s just a guess). My boards are awaiting pickup in Shenzhen, but if they make it to HK today, they’ll probably fly Polar Air Cargo 7680 to ANC, then on to Cincinnati.
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RT @rohansingh: Buying chips to build an electronic product right now is kind of like trying to buy toilet paper or gas during the shortage…
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Replying to @RWB93174525
Thanks for the screen!
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Pycorder has been configured as my ‘maker clock’ for a couple of months now; this is one of those weeks where all these time zones are relevant :)
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also today, printing things I’ll need for this week’s builds. this part baffles.
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refreshed my @digikey cart and since this morning, a part that I wanted for one of this week’s builds has gone from backorder to immediately available. miracles can happen!
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Replying to @silentself666
whoa that’s tiny!
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Replying to @femtoduino and @oshpark
Everything’s coming up Femto!
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Replying to @gennyble
non-working is just a state on the way to working. Everything didn’t work at some point.
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Replying to @gennyble
instead of hating on past you, consider writing love notes to future you. “it’s okay. i know it doesn’t make sense. i know it doesn’t compile. but I believe in you.”
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Replying to @timonsku, @theavalkyrie and @TedMielczarek
it’s all protocols on top of protocols? / always has been
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RT @CraigWeekend:
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sunset. I try to pencil this into my calendar most days, but fridays especially.
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Replying to @bwshockley
🙌
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Replying to @bwshockley
I want to get it there! The best-case plan is to assemble the first batch of boards before I leave for a Texas vacation on the 10th.
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Replying to @bitshiftmask, @wezfurlong and @sajattack
Thanks! I will probably make some time to do this over the weekend, appreciate the pointers from everyone who responded!
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Replying to @josecastillo
also playing with the piezo buzzer for the first time in earnest. on the left, an original Casio F-91W, beeping its one tone. on the right, the same piezo, cycling through different frequencies using the SAM L22’s TCC peripheral for PWM. Not as loud but definitely more versatile.
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the weekend is here which means I’m exceedingly back on my bullshit. simplified the watch PWM code and tweaked the resistor values; generating everything from a dim indicator green at 0.6 mA to a bright fire orange at 4.9 mA in increments of 16 (out of 256).
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Replying to @josecastillo
(this is technically the CAM data from last month’s panel, which I’m scrapping; it’s just that I just discovered how to download the data. this week’s panel is still pending. in the future, maybe I should just create these features with a milling path in my designs, for clarity.)
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well this is fun! my PCB house provided me with panelized CAM data, so I can see exactly how they worked around my edge-plated via hack. instead of actually drilling a hole where I put one, they turned part of it into a blue milling path so as not to hit neighboring boards. neat!
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hm. idly trying to generate a rust peripheral access crate for the SAML22. anyone with embedded rust experience have thoughts? it seems like the atsamd-rs project has a lot of patches and tweaks to parse those SVD files. wondering if it’s a rabbit hole I should go down or avoid…
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Replying to @atomicthumbs
I use it and it’s mostly ok, but if I’m not finding what I need I just add “g!” at the end to reroute to google. I actually appreciate that DDG makes it easy to get to other sites; w! for wikipedia, wa! for Wolfram Alpha (which I use a lot). nice to have it all in one search box.
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Replying to @_ChrisEdie
Possibly :) it’s an experiment in making the book easier for folks to solder together. If it works out it could very well be the next design!
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Replying to @jameswood
still better than minting an NFT!
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Replying to @guidoism
The tree may not be a future revenue stream, but future free guac would give me intangible joy I’d be hard pressed to put a dollar amount to :)
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Replying to @enzinolombardi
I know, it’s just such a small watch case, and the battery capacity is so limited, that this is what made sense for a first attempt. I do have an idea for another Casio watch mod that isn’t defined by those constraints, but I want to see this one through first :)
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Replying to @jameswood
uh-oh, not sure if I’ve created assets or liabilities here 🤣
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Replying to @josecastillo
if i were going to come up with a valuation for myself, it would have less to do with tangible assets and more to do with wealth inside. experiences, knowledge, curiosity, good health. a sense of ethics. a well of optimism. a bank i can withdraw from for the rest of my life.
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today a colleague mentioned the concept of “net worth”, and i’ve never unpacked the term before, but it’s kind of wild that we use it as shorthand for a dollar value. what truly has worth? what do I value anyway? would that number even make the cut?
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Replying to @enzinolombardi
Alas I’m not, there’s not yet a connectivity story, just timekeeping, sensor data acquisition and display on the LCD. The antenna is for an experiment in adding NFC to the mix.
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Replying to @apocraphilia
You’d think so but alas, I’m kind of all over the place. Two things that help though: I have a recurring cast of components I know well and like to work with, and I print documentation (like pinouts) on the boards so I can reference it when I’m assembling them / writing firmware.
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Replying to @enzinolombardi
The watch I’ll have to assemble myself here at the shop, as JLC doesn’t stock the SAM L22. The assembly order is an idea for the Open Book, a castellated module that incorporates all the driving circuitry (and the fine-pitched connector) for the e-paper screen.
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Replying to @josecastillo
…and now I’m restless. going for a run I guess.
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…and it’s in production! A motley group of boards, this time: a couple of experiments, one panel for the watch, an assembly job and some PCB art in blue and black. now all there is to do is wait.
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Replying to @josecastillo
I know there are folks out there that do wild stuff with gigahertz signals and impedance matching and all manner of RF magic. I know what I’m doing with this little board isn’t nearly on their level. but what can I say, I feel good about this one.
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putting the final watch panel in my shopping cart, and I can’t help but say it: i think this routing might be my best work yet. not a humblebrag. not a bragbrag. I just feel good about it.
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Replying to @josecastillo
i also realize I’m saying “finally” despite the fact that I did this work on Saturday and it’s still only Tuesday. But it does feel like procrastination. What was wrong with yesterday, or the day before? Every day has so much potential.
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Replying to @lukeweston and @cabe_bedlam
precisely! relative to the battery’s negative terminal, I suppose, which you’re never going to get to from outside the watch.
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