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@courtney Sorry I missed this, but I'm glad we got to chat at Teardown, and I really appreciated the perspective on Austin's commissions. I hope you had a good time at the event.

@lmorchard wasn't that kinda the ending of "Shaun of the Dead"?

Finally soldered and glued up @tomnardi 's Bus Pirate SAO this afternoon. LEDs are pretty, haven't tried the GPIO expander part yet. Thanks for handing me the kit at Supercon.

Square Bus Pirate add-on PCB, glowing, connected to the Supercon 8 badge.

Ben Combee boosted:

This is an experiment. Please boost.

http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

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Let me share with you a narrative of a software bug I just fixed in an all-night session (while still fresh in my mind).

You can see the problem in this video demo, starting at 1:26.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOQEv-2lKbU&t=86s

A deep dive will take several messages, so buckle up...

@evan ooh, that's a good one to know.

Your irregular reminder that #Linux signal numbers are different on different architectures. So signal 10 is SIGUSR1 on ARM/x64 and SIGBUS on MIPS and you get mighty confused interpreting a core file when you pick the wrong one.

See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html for a handy table.

It was great to meet @mitten in the food line at #SuperCon on Saturday. Her hedgehog SAO was quite adorable in person, and she was so nice!

@mos_8502 Definitely check eBay for the Raspberry Pi 400. A lot of people have picked them up thinking they'd be good for a project then never really used them, so looks like you can get one lightly used for for a 40-50% discount.

@JenMsft Just tried it in Firefox and it works there too!

If you can't figure out why your #Arduino test code isn't working in a sane way, remember that any local variable declared in your loop() function will be reinitialized over and over, since the loop that calls loop() is at a higher level. I spent way too long earlier today debugging some touch button management code until I had that "duh!" realization.

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I have been working on a felt SAO for the Hackaday contest, and I think I’m almost done. I’ve been posting project logs over there, and this is the latest one: https://hackaday.io/project/198398-fuzzy-sao/log/233889-much-closer
I’m pretty sure I can get the final one done in time to submit it - I hope, anyway!

@ajroach42 @drwho @poindexter I've lived away from Georgia since graduating college, but appreciate what you've been doing ther for sure!

@drwho @poindexter @ajroach42 I remember the QWK format. I ran a PC BBS back around 1990-1992 (Carpet Capital BBS in Dalton, GA) that called out every night to exchange messages and forums across the North Georgia/Chattanooga area. Also worked a little in college on the SOUP format for doing offline downloading of USENET so you could read and reply to all your groups without keeping the phone line occupied.

My latest project is something for prototyping something good. https://hackaday.io/project/198297-breadboard-sao #electronics #Hackaday

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Here's my badge #SAO for this year's #HackadaySupercon
It has a few button selectable modes, but the default one follows the state of the characters in Pac-Man 's attract mode.

It's also commandable over I2C, so you can set the LEDs up yourself if you like.

Thanks to @simenzhor for the help around the obscure but cheap microcontroller.

I will have some at Supercon and may throw some up on Tindie.

#pacman #arcade #electronics #badgelife #maker #leds #microcontrollers #programming