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Today's Daily News highlighted a post about a home project with 10,000 of hours invested. I'm so happy to hear that other people put thousands of hours into home computer projects. I've certainly had a few over the years. Lots of small computer projects, but a few that raised to the 1000's of hours level. Since I retired a few years ago, its home built telescope mounts controlled by Arduino's, Raspberry Pi's and phones. Way too much fun. I'm several thousand hours in, with no signs of letting up. I have to be diligent to avoid spending an unhealthy amount of time at it. My approach is to make sure I get some exercise (yard work, bike ride, dog walk,...), do something productive (bills, groceries, home maintenance, help Mom, ...), and do something fun (play with computer, ...) every day. I'm interested an anyone else's approach to maintaining some balance and not spending too much time at this stuff.
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I don't know what I'm looking at. Maybe two sub woofers on the floor? Tube amp in the middle. That's a big guess. Where do you plug in the guitar? Looks like fun.
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I like your daily goals, and plan to adopt a similar approach when I retire. I've less than a year to go.
Before I built software for a living I did it as a hobby, but not since. There is one major coding project I have in mind, but most of my fun time will be spent creating music and stained glass, and while I can maintain enough mobility and stamina, exploring more new caves.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I like your plan too. I've also invested 1000's of hours into learning to play music, but never really reached a desired comfort level. Closest on claw hammer banjo these days. My favorite music partner passed away, and that hobby is kind of in a lull at the moment. It could work its way back to the top at anytime. Fortunately being retired, we have time to do all these things. Retirement is great - hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
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If you're retired, and your hobby isn't detrimental to your health, why would you try to avoid spending "too much time" at it? Isn't that the point of retirement? Do things you enjoy?
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The only limit is the health hazard of spending too many sedentary hours in front of computer. Hopefully the daily exercise goal addresses that risk. Otherwise, agree completely - do things you enjoy!
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BBar2 wrote: Lots of small computer projects, but a few that raised to the 1000's of hours level.
I commend you for such an accomplishment. Regardless of what it may be, dedicating your time to something for thousands of hours is a difficult thing to do.
BBar2 wrote: Since I retired a few years ago, its home built telescope mounts controlled by Arduino's, Raspberry Pi's and phones.
That is awesome!
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Greetings Kind Regards
I have been unable to submit Visual Studio "Report a Problem" due to authentication failure since VS updated w/ a new better authentication method. The only mode of communication which does not result so is "Provide more info" and "Submit a comment" to a previously submitted problem report. Having done so fully describing my authentication fail complete w/ video the response by the Microsoft engineer is "And for issue βauthentication failsβ, please open new feedbacks for it, thanks!"         
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Send me your credentials and I'll check on my side.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Visit https://my.visualstudio.com. Does it accept the credentials that you're trying to supply to VS itself? Does it accept any other credentials?
If so, try to leave feedback from there.
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I want an IoT ecosystem that's as cross platform as possible, but even then I have some code that is for some MCUs specifically - generally driver stuff, or things that take advantage of one off features of an MCU like integrated WiFi. The ESP32 is a popular target of mine. The ESP32 targeted things can either run under Arduino or the ESP-IDF, so there are still cross platform considerations, since the ESP-IDF and Arduino frameworks operate in fundamentally different ways.
I recently built a project that runs on Arduino or the ESP-IDF, and runs on one of two devices - The M5 Stack Core 2 and the M5 Stack Tough. They share much of the same hardware, slightly different wiring, and most notably a different capacitive touch panel controller.
Eventually I modularized the configuration for the project, restructuring it so the shared libraries were grouped together, and then it had specific libraries for each device separately. I've pasted the result at the end of this post.
Anyway, I developed a good portion of this over the past several days, and/or upgraded existing code to be cross platform. Those shared library dependencies are the same for Arduino, and the ESP-IDF, and work the same across those two devices. There are only two libraries each that are specific to the device - its power chip, because despite both being an AXP192 they are wired differently on each device, and then the touch panel controller.
There are very few and very brief forks in my actual application code either, and it compiles and runs under Arduino and ESP-IDF on both devices.
I don't know how practical this accomplishment is, but I wanted to share it with someone, and everyone around me is asleep right now.
And yeah, I wrote an article about it today, but it didn't cover this bit.
[common]
core2_com_port = COM10
tough_com_port = COM20
lib_deps_shared = codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_esp_i2c ; i2c init
codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_esp_lcd_panel_ili9342 ; screen
codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_uix ; UI and Graphics
codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_esp_wifi_manager ; wifi
codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_esp_ntp_time ; NTP time service
codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_bm8563 ; real time clock
codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_esp_ip_loc ; IP geolocation
lib_deps_core2 = codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_m5core2_power ; AXP192 power chip
codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_ft6336 ; touch screen panel
lib_deps_tough = codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_m5tough_power ; AXP192 power chip
codewitch-honey-crisis/htcw_chsc6540 ; touch screen panel
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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A little OT, but I suspect that you're the one to ask...
I've got a system of 14 RTUs on a rs-485 chain, and I need to monitor and record the data passing back and forth among devices. All I can find are tools that want to actively query devices, not just passively listen. Do you use such a tool in your IoT activity, or know of one that I might be able to use?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've never needed to do that. I have a serial UART probe that handles that kind of thing for me, and a logic analyzer when that doesn't work.
But sniffing wires? That's outside my wheelhouse. Could you splice into it?
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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I googled that knowing what I'd find, and hit pay dirt, unsurprisingly on the first link on my first stab.
My brain is now filled with crap like this from doing embedded, both professionally and IoT stuff as a hobby.
It's making me a google ninja in some areas at least.
As to why I need it, well I'm trying to solve the case of the mysterious disappearing flash space.
My device is rated to have 16 megabytes, but I'm only seeing 1MB available for my code.
I don't know if this will fix it, but eventually google will lead me there, and probably quicker than an LLM could.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Check the scatter file or the linking window, it might have a segmented memory space.
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