And it works again. I mean, with ESP32S3. I rebuilt it from scratch, with newer versions of esp-hal and mousefood, basically porting my C6 code to the S3. Works like a charm!

What I really, really like about my AirSniffer (Rat Inside!) is that the screen totally looks like the displays of the Sanyo VCRs I used to watch stuff as a teen LOL. It's cyan from the ANSI theme on mousefood + custom orange (255,100,0).

Well well well, looks like collecting data from the balcony since July 2024 finally pays off, as I have some dataset to upload to Databricks for some data engineering stuff testing LOL

@polygonrunway.bsky.social tutorials are so incredibly relaxing! I took some liberty and opted for a perspective camera, I don't like the orthographic look too much. It's Toshi's after Toshi from American Dad!, of course 🙃

if the decades of listening on and off to italo disco gems taught me anything, it's this: don't talk to the snake, he's a fake! (off to play some Mike Mareen at high volume)

OK, I'd say this works: github.com/nebelgrau77/... Rat-powered air sniffer 🐭 It has a welcome screen, too! cc: @orhun.dev @jslazak.com @astrakernel.bsky.social @theembeddedrust.bsky.social #embedded #rustlang #ratatui

OK please tell me if someone wrote it already, otherwise feel free to write a novel or whatever: humans discover that we're not alone in space. In fact, there is some civilization like... 10 light years away. But here's the trick: they are at more or less the same level as us. They can...

my most recent commit says: "initial clearing restored, otherwise rgb noise appears where there's no mousefood objects". #rustlang #embedded

More progress in the rat-powered gizmo. I'm reading BME280 values as well, and it's ready to be used for regular calibration of the ENS160, for now it only calibrates at startup. I decided to simplify the calibration process and just do it in the same task as the ENS160 reading, but not every time..

Today I tried to understand the purpose of the optional Aurora RDS API, and I miserably failed. I have no clue what it could be useful for.

Progress! I'm getting the mousefood-powered gizmo back on track, finally. This time on an ESP32C6 for a change. For now it's just a static image, let's see if it can handle updates coming from sensors, but maybe there is a way out of this bizarro world. #embedded #rustlang

am I doing at least this right? #embedded #rustlang

OK WTF Reddit? I'm tot psyched for the 1.6K views, but how about a comment, dammit? Like, venture a theory, suggest a solution or at a "cool story bro"? 😡

OK, this is very frustrating. I seem to have built a true vaporware: luckily I have a photo of it, but I can't get it back to work. It does not work with Xiao C6, either, but the Xiao boards work, and the display works, too. The part that doesn't work is when I try to use mousefood for it.

dang, must have been lurking in the shadows since Friday the 13th! the dreaded OOM killer! 🤖☠️

I just accidentally watched a movie with total cult potential: - a highschool slasher! - with time travel, to 1987! - it has Kiernan Shipka!!! And the music is awesome, so go watch "Totally Killer"!

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Los Lobos! Last night in Nichelino (just outside of Turin, Italy). The great thing about going to see those bands that have been around for decades is that they really, really know their stuff. And I really liked their support band, Black Tail, cool stuff!

OK, I'm officially lost here. I tried a simple example, not with mipidsi but the st7735_lcd crate, to simply clear the display and then print some text. Doesn't work, static RGB noise. Similar code on a C6 works fine, so the display and the carrier board are OK. But other code using SPI

It is so weird. I tried changing the SPI frequency, as my code (which, let's not forget, worked until recently) uses 60MHz from an example for a different type of TFT, meanwhile for the ST7735 I read that 27 seems to be a better option. In any case, no change. Then I started testing SPI mode, but

How is it possible? The board clearly works, e.g. it runs other code, including with SPI. But it just doesn't do anything with the TFT, just the random RGB noise. It's not the display, because it works with a different board. Is it possible that something is corrupt in the board's flash?

double bummer! I wanted to reshare my post about the carrier board for Xiao and TFT display, shown here, but... I deleted it by mistake 🙄 but the main bummer is that I wanted to tinker with the color palette. I changed it to a different one, didn't like it, so I reverted to the original...

Word on the street is that money does not bring happiness, but if I had even a fraction of Space Karen's money, I'd be working on a remake of "Cry-Baby" featuring Taylor Swift as Allison. Of course "Drapes" would be "Drifts" driving JDM cars, but those are minor details.

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Could someone please explain this mental-temporal paradox? I'm reading "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem, absolutely loving it, and thinking that in the 90s I wouldn't have touched this "eww, ancient stuff from the 60s!". Now I'm like, yay, classic stuff from the 60s! 😀

www.euronews.com/2026/02/03/p... "The prosecutor's office said Musk and former X chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino had been summoned to appear at hearings on 20 April as part of the investigation." April 20, huh? Now that's irony done right 😏

car photodump

Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

Ferraris don't need to be red. Pretty cool exhibit "Ferrari 2010-2025" at the Museo dell'Automobile in Torino. What's really crazy is that many of those are not some car show concepts, but one-off custom built cars.

I saw this thing about Altman claiming that "AI will cause massive deflation, making money worth vastly more", so I went ahead and asked GPT-5 how that could possibly work. Now I am fully convinced that he himself got the idea from GPT as well.

www.ansa.it/sito/notizie... OK, so... (*checks notes) immigration and customs people will keep an eye on the vice president and the secretary of state during the Winter Olympics? Is that so they don't defect or something? Isn't it Secret Service who does that?

FB just reminded me that I took (and processed a bit) this photo in 2014. It was a special Martini Racing exhibit at the Museo dell'Automobile in Torino, Italy. cc: @creatinglightly.art @midnightdorifto.bsky.social

Pretty proud of how I removed a person that photobombed this gen 8 beauty, using GIMP's clone tool LOL. Really nice TypeR, with Brembo brakes, some carbon (look) Mugen details and so forth.

Waymo founder John Krafcik: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving has ‘bad case of myopia’ John Krafcik, the former CEO of Waymo, is doubling down on his criticism of Tesla’s self-driving strategy. One of the godfathers of autonomous driving argues that Tesla’s FSD has a “bad case of myopia.” /1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DP... This is where #machinelearning really shines, not the "AI slop" but solving actual problems, big and small, on the edge. #edgeAI #AIoT #computervision #cv

github.com/nebelgrau77/... Not yet on crates, but behold! the async version. I need to add/complete a few things, then will push to crates. From that point this will be *the* driver, but it's small enough to just backport changes to the blocking version... I guess :)

Good news everyone! That solder-it-yourself digital oscilloscope I put together some time ago is actually useful! Here showing the 32Hz output on the PCF8563 clockout pin. Neat! #rustlang #embedded

I went ahead and finally published my updated driver for PCF8563 RTC to crates.io: crates.io/crates/pcf8563 I added an ESP32C3 example with embassy, try it with @seeedstudio.com Xiao Expansion Board, as it has the RTC build it :) Now I just need to figure out what to do about the async version:

I wasn't fully aware of the later "evolution" of the Dilbert guy, but it made me wonder again about a cartoonist that I really liked 20 years ago, and then later discovered he went full bonkers. So I checked on "Sinfest" and can confirm, still fully bonkers.

I'm not trying to coin a catchphrase or something, like Francine on American Dad!, but I keep saying "it's like tears down the drain, man" and you can say that, too! It's a twist on the old Roy Batty bit, but adjusted for the climate reality where it doesn't rain that often anymore.

(image from another site) I don't think I ever had a CO green chile, but as for the NM version... let me put it this way, if you happen to order the green chile stew, a small bowl IS ENOUGH 🔥🔥🔥

OK hold on. So they want to buy it? So how about this: instead of selling, rent it for 99 years. That's a standard thing, allowing to re-discuss the fees again and so forth. This is phase one. Phase two is what to do with the money, and that I would only disclose to the top Danish authorities.

Happy New Year 🎊 Issue #62 is live! www.theembeddedrustacean.com/p/the-embedd...

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the heat is on! just for a little while to test, though. #gpu #pytorch #kubernetes

In case anyone's interested, this: suyog942.medium.com/my-gpu-time-... works nicely with MicroK8s, on RTX3060 12GB memory is the limit and you can't run more than two pods in parallel as you get OOM errors from TensorFlow, but two can run just fine! #gpu #kubernetes #microk8s

Inside of you there are two wolves...

soundcloud.com/wax-poetics/... I realized that I've been doing it in reverse: when people heard those golden era hip-hop records in the 90s, they'd be like "hey I know this sample, it's ...". In 2025 I'm like, hey I know this, Camp Lo/ATCQ/EPMD/... used it! Go check out the breaks.