eggfriedrice

This is great! I hope it was vibe coded

Lovely job, I like the "here's where I've got to so far" style. This gives people enough to work from and make a hand-wired version while he's waiting for boards to come back. Even if he runs out of time to do anything it's leaving a working design and firmware for folk to start from.

It's definitely too easy to put off publishing until it's "properly" done and then it never happens.

This was a really interesting read! Back in the day a friend and I started a company and Kickstartered a RPi add-on. The kickstarter campaign failed, but we ended up building anyway after one of the silicon manufacturers spotted the project and provided some FoC devices which changed the economics.

We spent oodles of time on it, learned lots, build a fairly simple product but ended up selling it through some of the bigger RPi retailers. It was all an excellent learning experience, and ignoring our time we made about 50p out of the entire batch of a thousand. Factor in our time and it was a complete financial disaster, but we were young and carefree and had fun doing it!

Classy job!

I recall at the Torness tour that the guide, who's a local, remembered at public the planning meetings that they were told the building wouldn't really be visible from the A1!

At least they painted it grey to match the sky...

This is nice, apart from a quick play when they were new I've never really looked at CF Workers and KV again. This made me go and have a look at the docs and find that it's actually looks quite useful. I didn't know they'd added Python and other languages, so that's cool in itself.

I like Jon's example here, a single and fairly short file that does just enough to demo this all, nice.

Today I learned about <hgroup>!

I particularly like how the UK phone number examples are not written how we would write them in the UK, which I guess underlines the point.

I'm not sure I understood much except the photo of the cake

It's a great book, my daughter loves it. I was pretty chuffed when she figured out the AND gate needs both buttons pressed at once. I'm not entirely sure she's sussed XOR yet though.

There is essentially no use of LoRaWAN at 433MHz in Europe, this would have been at 868

I do a lot with LoRaWAN, and I like the simplicity of its approach for class A devices, which is to wake up and transmit and then listen for a reply in two defined time windows. These are shortly after the transmission, so clock drift is less of an issue with cheap oscillators.

OMG, I had no idea Tim Hunkin was churning out YouTube videos these days! I was exactly the right age to appreciate the Secret Life of Machines, and it looks like I have several hours of quality stuff to watch there.

Yup, it's great. I used it to shuffle stuff from s3 into Dropbox and it was just the right tool for the job.