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Replying to @patrickod
Somehow still boiling down to a fetch quest 🙃
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very close to getting a uf2 bootloader working on the watch. code is building; red LED is pulsing. alas, it’s not enumerating over USB. think my clocks might be set up wrong, but my oscilloscope is at the shop and it’s raining out. may have to brave the elements to get this done.
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
it’s so weird how this person could have just, y’know, not tweeted this. and yet.
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Replying to @josecastillo
under my plan this tweet would have cost them a lot of money. https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1365046180766494723
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i love that dunking on this tweet is as simple as saying “read a book and get back to me” https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1380672884457213954
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Replying to @ElectronVillage
I for one welcome our low-power way of life.
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Replying to @sqfmi, @sulfuroid, @TheIndieG, @MicrochipMakes and @ohsummit
For now I’m focused on seeing how much I can do with this version of the gadget, but the project was actually inspired by a couple of projects for the CA53W-1: @travisgoodspeed’s GoodWatch, and @GregDavill’s arm-watch: https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/goodwatch https://github.com/gregdavill/advent-calendar-of-circuits-2020/tree/main/arm-watch
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Replying to @RWB93174525, @TheIndieG, @MicrochipMakes and @ohsummit
thanks! As someone who’s not as strong at the mechanical engineering side, this was a huge part of it. That and the fact that it’s just so famously inexpensive and accessible; you can go probably anywhere in the world and find an F-91W on a store shelf.
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Replying to @shahselbe, @TheIndieG, @MicrochipMakes and @ohsummit
Thanks! That is the plan, still working on software tho. I really want to get at least the UF2 bootloader working first; right now you can program it with pogo pins on SWD pads, but it’ll be magical when you can plug it in and drag firmware onto it like a thumb drive!
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Replying to @TheIndieG, @MicrochipMakes and @ohsummit
Cortex M0 microcontroller board, designed to fit in an inexpensive Casio digital watch :)
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today: watching @ohsummit talks and assembling boards for the watch. It’s graduation day: from building one at a time, to building five at a time. If this goes well I’ll make a full panel of 20. (only one part needed rework so far; feeling ok with this!)
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Replying to @peppertronics
seen the consequences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8umdwPI3_Y
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being vaccinated does NOT mean you can whiz on the electric fence.
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Replying to @kevinneubauer, @Chris_Gammell, @pdp7, @nwsayer, @arturo182 and @MakeAugusta
Not sure I’m the most help here as I mostly like to work with MCU’s that have native USB, like the SAMD series. Tho you could think of the SAM D11 as a relatively inexpensive “USB-to-anything” chip. https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATSAMD11D14
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
this reminds me of the time I put half half and half into my coffee and half whole and pondered all day how much I had had, and of what
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Replying to @joshu
I’ve said it before: Apple, and a Unicode rendering inconsistency in iOS vs macOS. I think there’s an interesting story in what went wrong here, and an even more fascinating story in why they haven’t been able to fix it for the better part of a decade. https://openradar.appspot.com/23083546
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Does anyone know of any virtual meetups happening in advance of tomorrow’s Open Hardware Summit #OHS2021? I’d be stoked to meet folks and have a space to say hi; would totally extend an open invite to the virtual loft space tonight, unless someone is already planning something?
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Replying to @audreydodgen
i think what it comes down to for me is, I believe in work. if I get to eat, it’s because I did work. and it’s weird to me that a landlord’s livelihood depends not so much on them doing work, but on me doing work.
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I think sometimes about how weird it is that I have to work to put food on my landlord’s table.
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Replying to @ElectronVillage
I’ve made this exact mistake before! Badge of honor, rite of passage, right up there with minor burns and letting out the magic smoke 🙃
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Replying to @josecastillo
I tried it as an exercise. 159 characters. It’s hard to fit both the background and the impact in such a small space.
“FYI: in 2019, Facebook leaked this phone #, plus name, employer & location info. It just became public. Be careful of scam texts & callers that have this info.”
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So I have a lot on my plate, but for anyone with some spare change & access to a SMS gateway, I think some good could be done here. People need to know. Bonus: you’d be free to craft the message, instead of Facebook PR. What could you do in 160 characters? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-data-leak-idUSKBN2BU2ZY
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Replying to @ElectronVillage
It’s perfect, and the contrast turns the neutral FR-4 into a perfect Martian sky!
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Replying to @ElectronVillage
OMG. Is that a copper pour on the backside to create the Martian surface? 🤯
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Ladyada on gatekeeping: “Whenever you hear somebody say ‘oh, that’s a toy?’ Alarm bells should be going off, because that means it’s a disruptive technology. Anything that’s a ‘toy’ is the next generation of technology that you just don’t understand. Yet.” https://youtu.be/PXI7iMT-8tg?t=2143
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Replying to @RWB93174525
Before Adafruit stocked them I picked up 100 on Aliexpress for cheap; haven’t looked lately but I recall they were pretty easy to find from multiple sellers. Bit of a wait for shipping, of course.
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Replying to @_nitz
I don’t know the answer, but that thumbnail definitely feels like someone pointing a firearm at me.
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not RT’ing to pile on; just want to share that easily the most frightening play I saw in 2019 was called “Spaceman”, and it was set on a solo mission to Mars. Incredible play; hoping for a revival someday. http://loadingdocktheatre.org/leegrid/plays/spaceman/ https://twitter.com/emilyhughes/status/1379428511908249600
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Replying to @joshu
GPT-3 has so thoroughly internalized the concept of negging big societal changes that it can tell you not to fight surveillance capitalism in an ironic “totally not a robot” voice
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I DO NOT UNDERSTAND “A DATA SURVEILLANCE OPT-OUT TOOL” https://twitter.com/joshu/status/1379522013354545157
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Replying to @theavalkyrie and @glowascii
that was such a great interview! y’all are both amazing
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you can’t deny the triple trident logo was iconic. https://twitter.com/NanoRaptor/status/1379264474310316035
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Replying to @virgilvox
it’s the obvious last stop for an era of meaningless plenty. tulip-craze dadaism for the coal-rolling set.
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Replying to @CoralineAda
Virtual proprioception?
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In layman’s terms: big bill not stuck! https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1379204721899044866
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RT @8WaPSbOqx2R3Byg: @
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Obviously I would never do this. But if I did, it would be at Apple, and it would be for this bug. it’s been five and a half years now: https://openradar.appspot.com/23083546 https://twitter.com/swaglord__420/status/1377051721655066629
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RT @joshsternberg: 44, 45, 46 Easter blessings
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Replying to @DavidGlaude
Oh wow, I had no idea about that mask thing! Hearkens back to the early days when we PPE was super scarce, but it feels like they could let up on that at this point…
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Replying to @PantsSlide
Thanks and yes it is! Tho I kind of sensed that it was figure-out-able; a lot of Adafruit’s tooling around the SAM D series is directly applicable to the SAM L, I just had to learn some things to successfully apply it :)
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Replying to @josecastillo
Anyway. I hope that the vaccine is open to everyone soon, and that we can get this shot in the arm of everyone that needs it, everywhere it’s needed. because we can’t protect all of us by only protecting some of us.
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Replying to @josecastillo
this one is really tough because, like, I get it: politicians want to take care of their people. But while the US has vaccinated its most vulnerable citizens and opened the jab to me, there are folks in other nations who are more vulnerable than I am, and they’re still waiting.
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Replying to @josecastillo
More broadly, for all the change that Joe Biden represents, one thing that hasn’t changed is the America-first attitude toward vaccines. Yes, it’s my turn — here in the USA. But it’s only my turn here because my country has exported precisely zero doses to the rest of the world.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Or maybe it was that I had fast internet, to load the links a hundredth of a second quicker. Or the fact that I’m a knowledge worker who can set my own hours, and set aside time to do all this. Point is, it’s “my turn”, but I had advantages that let me get it on day 6 of my turn.
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Replying to @josecastillo
As soon as appointments opened to my group last week, I went online to book. The process involved clicking links a fraction of a second faster than everyone else in the city, and solving many CAPTCHAs. I’m both able bodied and extremely online. Is that why I got an appointment?
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also today: got my first shot. Relieved, but also deeply ambivalent. From a public health perspective, my group is up; it’s absolutely responsible for me to get the jab right now. And yet. Questions of vaccine equity and vaccine nationalism abound. (thread?)
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today is a good day.
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Replying to @theavalkyrie
🙌🏽
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YESSS!!!! Just screamed it here in the loft. SAM L22 TinyUSB success! This means I can get the USB port on the watch working. THE PLAN:
- TinyUSB support for the watch.
- TinyUF2 support for the watch.
- CircuitPython port for the watch.
more to do but this is a milestone.
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Replying to @mikko
Yeah it makes sense; class of ‘04, the timeline checks out. A short window between thefacebook’s launch in February and graduation in June.
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