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IoT widgets are cool, but it would be interesting what you could do if you could make the MCU kits completely flat. Very thin, with a completely flat LCD on top, such that you could mount it to the surface of a laptop and run something this fastened on its lid:
esp mon running on a makerfabs esp display 7" - YouTube[^]
But much much thinner than that.
It's 2024. We missed out on the Jetson's style flying briefcase car. Instead, we got the cyberpunk dystopia the sci fi authors promised us. In recompense, I want flat computers.
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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(related ?) I think that was the idea when Apple added a Touch Bar instead of regular keys.
it was far from perfect as keys replacement, but it was a good idea.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Is that really a 30+ part series on all the tech of Apollo?
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Hadn't noticed, but I've watched another program in the series a while back so yeah it's possible.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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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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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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I've been helping someone get a new waveshare board running only to fail last minute due to the board being crap and me running out of moves to work around it. It's a brand new board, and library/toolchain support is currently trash.
Yesterday at 3am a windows update rebooted my laptop and launched my dual boot linux mid update (lid closed so I didn't realize) - that nuked my windows. I was going to my sister's that day, and that's the only time I ever use my laptop. Frustrating. Fortunately I got it reinstalled enough that it limped along for the trip but heckin grrr. Serves me right for not turning off scheduled updates.
I've been a bit down on tech over the past few days.
Finally, my makerfabs 7" arrived. At 1024x600 it's pushing the limits of this little ESP32-S3 MCU. I have a header file used for driving displays of various kinds - kind of an all in one Big Ball of Mud that nevertheless has served me quite well for driving LCDs of all kinds from an ESP32. I plugged in the pins and things like horizontal sync, vertical back porch, etc and it fired right up and ran my code.
I needed that. Now I just need to update esp_mon2 to be able drive displays that are this large (and relatively slow updating). Currently if it receives serial data faster than the display can draw it crashes.
It shouldn't be a problem, because I'm on my game now. 
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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There are only two ideas in Modern UI (&/or Web) Design, see the image[^].
Do you like Modern Web Design or Classic?
Here's the difference[^].
I created these memes and they are my contributions to the ongoing UI Design discussion. 
They show you why the UX is so irritating, agitating, annoying and other synonyms.
Uh, and yes, CP Main-Page, I'm looking (scrolling) at you! 
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Yeah, who's offended by scroll bars, even the fat ones?
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Both are so true. I hate the wasted screen space inherit in modern UIs. I can understand no scroll bars on a smart phone, but not on a 1920x1200 monitor.
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obermd wrote: I can understand no scroll bars on a smart phone, but not on a 1920x1200 monitor
I know very little about CSS but I do know that designers can tell
1) what your device is
2) what your screen size is
And more.Look at how Media Queries are defined (for just this purpose):
Media queries is a feature of CSS 3 allowing content rendering to adapt to different conditions such as screen resolution (e.g. mobile and desktop screen size). It became a W3C recommended standard in June 2012,[1] and is a cornerstone technology of responsive web design (RWD).
And, that is ancient technology. But no, the designers just design everything to a phone and forget about the rest. Annoying.
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You get the last tree that fell in the yard cut, split and stacked when another falls...that's even bigger. ARG
Is it like a law of nature?
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mike Hankey wrote: Is it like a law of nature?
Nope... it is Murphy's 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Nope... it is Murphy's
Me an him gotta have a talk.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Who's this General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?!"
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It just KNOWS when you are ready for it.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Mike Hankey wrote: Is it like a law of nature?
It's because Mother Nature is a real mother... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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What is this "tree" of which you speak?
Will Rogers never met me.
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