jamesmunns

Doing embedded stuff

Be nice, work hard. Build tools, tell stories. Start five year fights. Kein Ort für Nazis.


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Reminder for making cohost a feed you need:

  • Follow everyone vaguely interesting for a while. There will be time to prune back later
  • Rechost everything interesting for a while. It will help others re-build their networks of good people
  • At least on twitter: you can search for "cohost" from "people you follow". You are likely to find people there.
  • Use tags! I watch #rust pretty closely, for example
  • Pay for cohost plus.

And here are a couple I follow (and why), that have been posting cool stuff lately. I am literally just scrolling back through my feed, so no particular reason why these people, other than I follow them and they post.

If you see this and don't follow me, I'm James. I post a lot of Rust, Embedded, and lately long form Systems Engineering things.

Consider rechosting this to add your favs, or make your own # follow friday post to help all the new people here.

  • @mifune - beautiful photography
  • gravis/@cathoderaydude - lots of reasons, some photography, some retro hardware, some very good commentary
  • @whitequark - one of my favorite people of all time on twitter. She's awesome.
  • @eniko awesome game/tech knowledge sharer
  • @nora - cool bots, and eggbuggs in hats
  • @staff - or more individually @vogon, @jkap, and @aidan. It's cool to watch them build cohost, and they are in fact, good chosters. Also @eggbug, the official mascot account.
  • @atomicthumbs - who I feel like is one of the most OG and prolific chosters
  • @sunshowers - they post dope Rust stuff
  • @trangar - also posts dope Rust stuff
  • @oli-obk - MORE DOPE RUST STUFF
  • @ThePhD - Is being bullied into writing dope rust stuff (also extremely knowledgeable C committee member, and v. good person)
  • @fasterthanlime - who is now a full-time author, building many cool things, which include Rust


fasterthanlime
@fasterthanlime

🎺 As of today, I am working full-time on creating articles, making videos, and contributing to open-source projects. ✨

This is a huge step for me, and I'm excited for the future.

Read more: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/becoming-fasterthanlime-full-time




I'm thinking about making a little modular desktop input/output... thingy.

I know that doesn't sound super clear, but the plan is to be able to daisy chain little modules that do a thing, and then have those plug into USB for power and I/O.

I have a couple of ideas for what to do for the widgets:

  • Rocker switches
  • Dials (like a volume dial)
  • Rotary Encoders/Scroll wheels
  • button grids
  • LED grids
  • Maybe small oled/lcd screens
  • Maybe some sensors, like CO2 or temperature or noise level

The idea would be to just give you a little API where you could get the status of each of the widgets, or push settings to them, without having to write any embedded code.

Anyone have any suggestions for things they would want from this?