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No Kings text and logo with a crossed out crown. A happy frog cartoon above the text "FROGS AGAINST FASCISM"

Shirt design and flyers for this weekend #NoKings

TY. Each byte is encoded into a blinking sequence of 3 colors and there are 8 total different colors. More permutations than are needed because I wanted to also avoid repeating the same color twice in the sequences.

*Flashing Warning* An idea 🐛 that got stuck in my brain while working on the #CircuitPython driver for the OPT4048: Transmitting data with a series of blinking colored lights. Successful transmission & receipt achieved 🎉. Transmitter top, receiver bottom, message highlighted at end. 🌈💡📡

Zach's Math Zone This channel provides educational videos that can help anyone learn math.

Shout out to Zach's Math Zone on YT: www.youtube.com/@ZachsMathZo... This friendly person makes concise informative videos breaking down mathmatical concepts visually. Bonus points in my book for the recent videos on different ciphers.

Catch up on the latest episode with guest @foamyguy.bsky.social - we chat about the challenges of designing games for CircuitPython and some of the games he's created.

YouTube video by Putnam County District Library Hospice Fraud: it’s a thing now

Props to the friendly librarians at Putnam County OH District Library for their ongoing PSA-like series about the latest techniques commonly in use by scammers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdbU... I really appreciate them taking the time record and publish these. ♥️ #Library

Improving garbage collection time in CircuitPython
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Using a Keyboard with USB Host USB Keyboards are things that we often take for granted while working on devices with a full OS with support for them like Linux on a Raspberry Pi, or Mac / Windows on a PC. Using a USB keyboard with a microcontroller requires a more deliberate effort to find and connect to the device, and then read and interpret data that it sends. This guide covers the steps necessary to use a USB keyboard with CircuitPython and Arduino.

Using a Keyboard with USB Host

North Korean hackers looking on as people throw millions into crypto grift coins in an attempt to curry favor with his orangeness.

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YouTube video by Henri Arslanian Binance's Tigran Gambaryan's Near-Death Detention in Nigeria: An Exclusive Interview

youtu.be/X7PLaaIo6F0?... wouldn't ordinarily listen to or share crypto vid, but Tigran has my utmost respect. Former IRS agent. Helped investigate and bring justice in many high profile crypto cases. Lived through a nightmare held hostage by Nigeria for months. No coin shilling, just humanity.

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Part Picker Hackaday Article

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Part Picker

New episode! You may have seen @foamyguy.bsky.social doing a livestream on Fridays or Saturday mornings, now get to know him. We chat about how he first started with computers and designing games in CircuitPython. Visit www.circuitpythonshow.com/@circuitpyth...

The FBI Can't Find ‘Missing’ Records of Its Hacking Tools The FBI bought multiple hacking tools for $250,000. Despite that, the FBI says it can't find any more records about the tools.

The FBI says it can't find "missing" records about hacking tools it purchased www.404media.co/the-fbi-cant...

Randomized #egg painting in #CircuitPython with TilePaletteMapper. Original sprites from onocentaur.itch.io/eggs. Code: github.com/FoamyGuy/Cir... 🥚🎨🐍 #easteregg

Pixelated static in an array of different colors. Horizontal band patters are visible in a few sections. The pixels are the data from 3 books encoded into each of the three color channels red, green, and blue.

Pixelated static in an array of different colors. Horizontal band patters are visible in a few sections. The pixels are the data from 3 books encoded into each of the three color channels red, green, and blue.

Had the thought last night: "If I can encode 1 book into the blue channel of pixels, then it should be possible to encode 3 books into an image using all 3 color channels right?". Indeed it is. I think I like the dark one more, but both are neat. #python

Coming Monday: Meet @foamyguy.bsky.social - Paul and Tim chat about how Tim got his start with computers, designing games for CircuitPython and some of his favorite games he's written.

I saw it originally here: bsky.app/profile/pixe...

Blue pixelated image that looks mostly like random noise or static. The pixels contain encoded characters from the book.

Saw this idea on bsky the other day... Wrote scripts to encode/decode a book into a pixelated image and back. 1st book I encoded is The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book 🥪📘. TY gutenberg.org. Code: github.com/FoamyGuy/Boo... #python 🐍

Blue pixelated image. The different shades of blue in the pixels contain encoded characters from a book.

Thanks for sharing, this post inspired me to write some scripts to do something similar. Though I went with blue, and the first book I encoded is a book about sandwiches. github.com/FoamyGuy/Boo...

Match3 Game on the Adafruit Metro RP2350 Use MicroPython and the Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip to make this fun game played with two USB connected mice. Output is to most HDMI displays in glorious color.

Match3 Game on the Adafruit Metro RP2350

Release ROMFS, alif port, RISCV inline assembler, DTLS, mpremote recursive remove · micropython/micropython After more than three years in development, the "ROMFS" feature has been finalised, its filesystem format specified, and the VFS driver and supporting code are included in this release of MicroPyth...

MicroPython v1.25.0 has been released!

github.com/micropython/...

A *huge* update, particularly for the ROMFS feature, and the new Alif port. However, as with all MicroPython releases, there are hundreds of improvements and fixes. Such focus on refinement!

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with John Lennon’s Typewriter Hackaday Article

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with John Lennon’s Typewriter

New episode! Special guest @andypiper.me joins @todbot.bsky.social and @paulcutler.org and they chat about a new home page for your browser with Glance, open source soundfonts, automatic filament detection for your 3D printer, and more. Find the show wherever you get your podcasts.

Satirical Signal chat screenshot with the messages: "PH: Guys, we can't have a repeat of last time. The new comms hardware is in",[Image of childrens walkie talkies with spyX logo], "TG: eXm says these things are super s3cure.", "M: Opsec clean [broom emoji] [zipped mouth emoji] [fire emoji]"

No need to worry, they learned their lesson. Case closed. #Signal #OPSEC

CircuitPython 10.0.0-alpha.2 Released! CircuitPython 10 From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 10.0.0-alpha.2, an alpha release for 10.0.0. Further features, changes, and bug fixes will be added before the final release of …

#CircuitPython 10.0.0-alpha.2 released!

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CircuitPython 9.2.7 Released! From the GitHub release page: This is CircuitPython 9.2.7, the latest bugfix revision of CircuitPython, and is a new stable release. WARNING for nRF52 boards only: If your board has an nRF52 UF2 bo…

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Highlights:
- Bug fixes.

Implemented autosave and resume in the #CircuitPython Set card game. Game state is msgpack'd and written to the new CPSAVES partition of flash. #GameDev 🐍🃏💾