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gvy_dvpont

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Software/Hardware/Nonsense

#AndroidDev, #KotlinMultiplatform by day, but I don't talk about it as much.

Very into #MusicTech, used to work as an #AudioEngineer

Here you'll find lots of #electronics / #embedded work. Love to design new products as well as modify existing ones. Everything is open source, and I try to share my process on YouTube. Like using #CircuitPython as much as possible, but also reach for #Arduino and native SDKs from time to time.

Also a very tired new dad.

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We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

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Sitting here wondering if / hoping that @stylus PyCon talk was recorded and will be made available to non-attendees someday 🥺

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How can you be a grown person learning how to play the saxophone in a building with 16 units. be serious neighbor

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Still unpacking from Open Hardware Summit (both brain-wise and clothing-wise). I had an impossible amount of fun and was so glad to meet so many of you IRL.

If you missed it, here's my talk:
https://youtu.be/41qIQzLS304?si=maed84rj14VoYxPA

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when you successfully rescue $20 worth of parts from a failed PCB and then promptly apply the wrong voltage on the new version and kill your dev board

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Nice knowing ya

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Me when you ask me what I'm gonna use to pull in Python dependencies

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Anyone done MIT swapfest before? Can I bring a stroller (with a small child in it)?

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Welp! Never getting hired in games I guess 😁😁

https://kotaku.com/doom-pc-microtransactions-in-app-purchases-bad-mod-1851410764

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We need to STOP running DOOM on new things
and START putting new things into DOOM.

For example, today I added micro-transactions to the original game. Any time you pick up an item, the game freezes until you make a payment.

opening DOOM from the command line. start a new game. immediately walk to health item. when the character touches it, the game freezes and a QR code pops up. I scan the qr code with my phone and a credit card payment UI is displayed. I enter fake credit card details, hit submit. A second later the web page on the phone says "Payment Complete" and the game on the computer resumes.

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I gotta say the mastodon web UI looking/feeling really good to me these days!

I understand the criticisms, but I really, really, miss quote reposts over here. Sharing something with context feels like a fundamental social media feature.

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What else do I need from Digikey?

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If I ever find myself in charge of a conference, I'm docking 30 seconds of each presenter's talk and forcing them to choose a walk-up song

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I'm working on a talk and would love your opinion if you are a maker of any kind:

What is a prototype?

What are your primary concerns when working on a prototype? (especially vs. something going to "production")

Open to any off-the-cuff answers or more official definitions if such things exist.

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These M5Stack C6Nano boards are so friggin cute. Esp-32 C6, 2 LEDs, nice clicky button, IR, and a couple IO. Pretty limited but if you got something you need networked with little room to spare...

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Bought a cheap little USB touchscreen and learned the only(?) option for drivers on Mac costs $150 PER MACHINE. Made a little USB converter with a $1 microcontroller (RP2040) that remaps the touchscreen output to standard mouse/keyboard events understood by any computer.

🧵

7" cpacitive touchscreen showing my spotify home page. I start, stop, and skip the music, and click through multiple pages. The camera pans and I show an Adafruit RP2040 Feather USB Host board plugged in via USB.

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This song/album are a fucking masterclass in pop

https://youtu.be/-KE8NmtTlPk?si=NeoyPeco4j5pYtJ0

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In 2018, long before the the LLM boom, I made a prototype for a revolutionary health-tech product: WebMG

It calculated how likely you were to survive an episode of Grey's Anatomy based on a description of your symptoms.

https://youtu.be/hB5uDwIPwoQ?si=o2UiB1LoynrTw57t&t=76

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Having fun with a project that uses USB cameras. Doing some DIY HDR to deal with uneven lighting. I learned that:

A) If your webcam is a standard UVC (USB video class) cam, it may expose params that you can change (exposure, white balance, focus etc). Even the really cheap ones!

B) (of course) there's an imagemagick command to average a bunch of shots into one.

I wrote a script to set the exposure to three different settings, taking a photo after each. Look at the lamp, mantle and cabinet.

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The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon is back!! (ok it was back last year but I had to miss).

If you're in the area, would love to see you there - I've had a blast at past events. It's like 'The Purge' for the gremlins in my brain that yeet ridiculous ideas into my consciousness.

https://bostonstupidhackathon.com/

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A fun UX I've been playing with for a project: If you scan this QR code, a small .png file will be downloaded to your device (SFW, I promise).

The kicker is that file is not hosted on any server, anywhere. It lives completely within the QR code itself! 🧵

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Working on a project with multiple cameras and was surprised to find few options for cheap embedded USB cams. Lots of stuff to be driven by micros/RPis.

However!! I discovered that if you look for OV2640 or OV5640 cams on AliExpress/eBay, some of them ship with little USB adapter boards. Didn't notice as first because they tend to use 5-pin molex connectors rather than actual USB ports 😝. $10 w/ camera included, and you can swap them out if you want different lenses.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805403519667.html

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Has anyone ever gotten a non Raspberry Pi SBC to boot? lol I just do not believe it

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@chris_gammell hate to do this to you, but have you seen Neal Agarwal's Infinite Craft? AI Alchemy game: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

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Later today I'll be talking to my friends at Tom's Hardware on the Pi Cast!

https://www.youtube.com/live/95Hu1lfMxeA?si=75XXsIwKOLO97jrt

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