Codepope’s Development Hell

So, I’ve not been around on the blog, but things carry on…. Current project - Tetvaders PoC; Tetris and Space Invaders in one particle powered fun show - eventually want to put it onto LED panels Current irritation - The Beaglebone AI - lovely board but docs are sorely lacking and what docs there are tell you you need a heatsink or a fan. SBC design fail de jour, there’s too many new SBCs which need a fan.

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Well I was hoping to go mobile with Ghost so I could blog anywhere but I hit a snag. Simply put, there is no mobile blogging app I can find for iOS so far. So plan B is blogging with the Android app for Ghost. No excuse now. So now I had better get writing about my rain rainbow device, my PiDP11/70 build and this BLE plant monitor… Oh and the new SQFMI Badgy which is up on the article pic.

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So, I was looking for something to do at HackWimbledon today and as I’d just got my hands on the Hex Neopixel panels from M5Stack, I thought I’d see what I could get going. And down I fell into a hole which lead to playing with spreadsheets. Lets look at the device in question: As seen on Aliexpess Pretty neat eh. The demo code was easy enough to get going and it slaps a rainbow over all the pixels.

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So Adafruit’s latest is the PyPortal, an Atmel-SAMD51-powered, Python-running board with a touchable LCD display, an ESP32 for WiFi and BT, and a form factor which makes it easy to mount. I got mine with the Adabox subscription and it came with an acrylic enclosure and a tube you could fill with pennies (UK pennies work) to weight down the enclosure which has a curve in the back where it can sit.

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Yes, I know, string doesn’t rattle but if you attach enough tin cans to it, it does. That’s a bit like programming. Anyway, welcome to Codepope’s Development Hell. This is my new, personal site, replacing codescaling.net, and looking to be more about the stuff I do. Part of this is also to get me to look after my own IT again. So this is a self-hosted Ghost site up in the cloud on someone else’s computers.

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