Non-blocking Arduino/OLED SSD1306 Animation Manager
Problem: I'm working on a project that involves a bit of screen usage and I need to organize things in a way that they will work without blocking my event loop. (I plan to share th
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Addressable LED Strip Flickers with Arduino | Weird Behavior
Problem: While working with Arduino and addressable LED strips (a few times now), I tend to wire up everything (with external power since the LEDs can draw a lot of current) and go
Raspberry Pi Camera - Color ASCII Real-time Preview for command line
Problem: I'm working on a project with my son that uses a Raspberry Pi camera to detect people, identify them, and then shoot them (with a NERF bullet via a turret ) if they are no
ESP8266 FastLED Pin Assignment Confusion
Problem : While trying to use an ESP8266 D1 mini Arduino board to control some addressable WS8211 LEDs, I found that it didn't seem to work. Solution : After some reading, I found
Play Symon (a.k.a. Simon) -- that old toy that tests your memory... (and source code)
A rapid coding challenge I decided to do sometime ago was for a Simon replication game that was fully user interactive. I've made the code and assets available for anyone intereste
Start-Up Roadmap - Digi-Key Maker.IO
While looking over some components looking to source a pot for an amp I'm fixing, I found this cool little outline of taking a product from concept to the masses. It's a good thing
Chutes and Ladders is totally random, just let the computer play it...
My kids like to play Chutes and Ladders as a family and I have no idea why. Even though the game is pretty much entirely random (pro spinner flickers aside), they still feel bummed
Laravel / Google Maps -- Get Locations in Bounds
Problem: While working on a project using Laravel back-end and JavaScript front-end. I had a situation where I needed to get all the locations for the map with given bounds. First,
BlackMagic Ursa Mini G2 - Iso to gain dBs translation
Recently I have needed to get this information and couldn't quickly find it, so I'm shamelessly placing it here for next time :). db ISO -12=100 -6=200 0=400 +6=800 +12=1600 +18=32
Python: valueerror too many values to unpack (expected 2) stackoverflow - dict to tuples
Admittedly, I haven't spent a lot of time in Python lately and find myself hitting my head on the wall trying to figure out some fairly simple things again. This is one of those su
Arduino Pro Micro (Atmega32U4) - Can't Upload Sketch - Board Bricked
Problem: I recently purchased some pro micro clone boards with HID support. I was able to upload to the first board without a problem, but then I was unable to upload to the same b
DaVinci Resolve Scripting Setup - ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'DaVinciResolveScript'
Problem: While working on a project, I had the opportunity to do some coding in Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve. Resolve supports python 2.7 and python 3.6. Jumping in, I opened and r