garthy1d ago
Does anyone know if there is a GNSS/GPS hexpansion? #emf2026 #hexpansion #Tildagon
zool1d ago

inspired by @pikesley 's recent graphics noodling i have fully removed the #tildagon badge from its electrostatic bag, peeled off the sticky cover from its dinky round screen, and connected it up to the Thonny IDE, where i am looking at its repl in a spirit of "now what" - graphics, sensors, both?

I never got the micropython drivers for the thermal camera working properly, but this would be incentive to have another go, display either an object/background readout with the single-pixel one or an extremely low-resolution heatmap with the 16x16 one

Or maybe the ultrasonic distance sensor driivng the LEDs, though that's a chonky thing to put on an already chonky badge

Anyway i ordered a couple of these protoboard hexpansions https://www.tindie.com/products/jakew/protoboard-hexpansion/ and can now stop thinking about it until they turn up :)

Protoboard Hexpansion by Jake Walker on Tindie

A prototyping hexpansion for the EMF 2024 Tildagon Badge.

Tindie
Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only1d ago

I worked out what the problem was and concocted a way better solution as soon as my head hit the pillow last night. I was sorely tempted to get up and fix it on the spot

I am 51 years old

#EMFCamp #Tildagon

Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only1d ago

Here we fucking goooooooo

#EMFCamp #Tildagon

Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only2d ago

Imagining what 11yo Sam, playing this game, would have thought about all this

"Far-future-you is going to do weird shit with these sprites"

#EMFCamp #Tildagon

Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only2d ago

If I try to load a different sprite it dies horribly attempting to allocate memory

Guess we're spending Good Friday optimising this. Just like Jesus would have wanted

#EMFCamp #Tildagon

Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only2d ago

Couldn't be me playing a 41-year-old Spectrum game on an emulator and taking constant screenshots, then picking out the ones I need and running them through some Python to crop them, bitmap them and then run-length-encode them

And no, no AI LLM dogshit has been anywhere near any of this

#EMFCamp #Tildagon

Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only2d ago

I regret nothing

#EMFCamp #Tildagon

Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only4d ago

All that so I could get this stupid idea out of my head

#EMFCamp #Tildagon

Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only5d ago

The Pickaxe Guy animation is no longer fucked. I also fixed some other things

#EMFCamp #tildagon