Chebucto Regional Softball Club

SHOVEL IN MORE COAL, WE'VE ALMOST HIT 60 FPS

I wonder how hard it would be to build; a basic steam engine, then use it to turn a turbine or dynamo, then use it to run my SteamBox

steam all the way down.

@gewt sent me this on govdeals as "your next keyboard".

if it wasn't pickup only on the other side of the country for more money than I have, I'd be tempted!

Does the "ZOHRAN" text render here, for you, and what browser/OS are you on?

on Firefox or Edge Win11, it doesn't render, and I'm not sure why not.

Edit me

(homes.luddy.indiana.edu)

searching "arduino keypad" on amazon also suggested I buy a blender.

and look, I have a lot of bad ideas for keyboards, but a blender is probably going too far.

I did see this one but didn't get it (it'd take way too long to get here and I have ADHD. time blindness means december doesn't exist)

but check it out: five buttons, 3 wires. It uses analog encoding on the buttons! There's a resistor inline with each button, so the voltage your analog pin measures depends on which buttons are pressed.

found a little module that''s just a couple tactile switches and a header. ordered.

if I was using a Pico W I'd just pair it to a bluetooth device, but this is actually a Waveshare RP2040-Plus, which is basically just a Pi Pico 1 with more flash storage and a USB-c port (plus a reset button)

so I either have to get a separate module and wire that in too, or build a PCB. and since I can't really solder right now, PCBs are out

wow I didn't think about this at all.

this display isn't a module that clips on the pico like the previous ones I've used, but I thought that'd be fine because I can use some jumper wires and 3D print an enclosure.

EXCEPT I FORGOT I NEED BUTTONS. this module has no buttons

and now I've got it working with hardware SPI, so it's not slow as fuck. Nice.

No one wants to use a keyboard that lags.

It lives! entirely a thinko on my part, I was trying to use u8x8 and not u8g2.

well, something is definitely wrong here.

what do we rename MOSI to? lets confuse it with I²C, that's fine

this device is SPI and labels two of the pins SDA & SCL

FINE I GUESS

I'm reposting a Outside Wolves comic (with permission) here, because I thought mastodon should see this, and the followup.

from: https://www.tumblr.com/outsidewolves/799536195531063296

This is the closest I was able to get to a non-blurry picture.
It's not super complicated inside: Two main big components, a battery (non-rechargable lithium!) and a switch. The antenna is built into the PCB itself.

California uses a radio-tag system called FasTrak for vehicles, and recently they sent me a new tag.

So naturally I had to open up the old tag, right?

I mean. I GUESS?

First print, a CaliCat, looks good!