gadgetoid

gadgetoid, 1 day ago to random

How do you budget for subscriptions, supporting developers or projects? How many “it’s just X a month” can you sustain? How do we encourage this model? What do you feel about this model?

gadgetoid, 2 days ago to random

I am so deeply, deeply tired of every god damned "can be answered with a tutorial" technical question search being overwhelmingly flooded with videos. I don't want videos. I don't want to listen to something I can read. I am at least 50% deaf. GIVE ME WORDS DAMN YOU. WOOORDSSSSS!

gadgetoid, 2 days ago to retrogaming

Kids these days be “yeah I love #RetroGaming the PlayStation 2 is my favourite but I also collect Xbox games…”

gadgetoid, 2 days ago to random

I guess for #emfcamp next year I’m going to have to submit a talk to get a day pass? 🤔

What’s the least dull topic? “Bending MicroPython to my whims”, or “writing chip drivers in Python against my better judgement”?

gadgetoid, 2 days ago to Electronics

My KiCAD efforts so far…

#Electronics #MechanicalKeyboard

gadgetoid, 3 days ago to random

spot the deliberate mistake 😆

(May or may not be a test to see if you find anything I've missed, hahaha)

gadgetoid, 3 days ago to random

God f&*%£king damn it, everyone is going to EMF

gadgetoid, 3 days ago to random

Okay I've got actual stuff done in actual KiCad... first attempt at doing any kind of PCB work in years!

gadgetoid, 4 days ago to random

Do #EMFCamp do day passes? 🤣😭

gadgetoid, 9 days ago to random

#MakersCentral #MakersCentral2024 here we goooooooooo!

@notenoughtech @andypiper 👀

gadgetoid, 10 days ago to random

So who’s at #MakersCentral #MakersCentral2024 tomorrow? 👀

gadgetoid, 11 days ago to random

Not usually one to bring The Capitalism here (other than y'know my blogging... which might be worse) but frikkin' LED noodles are on stock, you want these, OMG you do!

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/led-noodles?variant=41736459321427

gadgetoid, 12 days ago to mechanicalkeyboards

Me: ugh I can’t see the backlight through my keys!
KiBOOM: hold my beer

#mechanicalkeyboard

Close-up view of a circuit board with electronic components and LEDs illuminated in blue and green. It’s the backside of the keyboard as seen through the acrylic case. The undersides of mounted keys glow in red, blue and purple.

gadgetoid, 13 days ago to random

Saw this and thought of Stef @LauraKBuzz

gadgetoid, 18 days ago to random

My vacuum cleaner does better alt text than some of ya’ll

gadgetoid, 21 days ago to random

TIL Mavis Beacon is a fictional character, and I'm sorry you had to hear about her this way...

gadgetoid, 21 days ago to random

If enough of us add two weirdly distinct things to an Amazon basket, order and then cancel… will it train the recommendation engine? 🤔

gadgetoid, 24 days ago to random

If you ever wanted a glimpse into how pathologically dysfunctional my life is… here are the stray mugs I’m carrying downstairs this morning…

gadgetoid, 25 days ago to random

Welp the end result of my mad descent into the rabbit hold of binary info parsing as a way to perform static checks for binary/filesystem overlaps has been a success-

gadgetoid, 27 days ago to random

Currently undertaking the perilous task of writing a MicroPython network driver which delegates all of its operations to a Python class… 🤔

Y’know like “uos.mount” lets you write a Python block dev driver…

gadgetoid, 27 days ago to random

Old MacDonald had a server farm
AI AI oh!

gadgetoid, 27 days ago to random

Scam people out of money with a phone call and an Apple gift card and you're a criminal. Scam people out of money with a countdown timer and a bag of gems and you're a "game developer."

gadgetoid, 28 days ago to random

This absolute unit is probably more useful than I expected- full macro/layer config. Though I am short of good key caps for actually annotating my chosen setup 😬

gadgetoid, 28 days ago to random

I threatened keebs and you’re gonna get keebs

gadgetoid, 1 month ago to random

Let’s goooooo