I made a thing  

Designed a case for my electronic badge.

Featuring awesome pixel art by @ScruffyBrush, showing Asaril as Red the Hunter from Solatorobo.

Running on a pimoroni Tufty 2040.
Designed a frame so it can hang vertically and contain a lithium battery for about 15h of runtime at good brightness.

#tufty2040 #furry #pixelart #maker

Used a CAD program for the first time since college back in the stone age to do a 1:1 scale drawing to use as my plexiglass template for a back panel for my #Tufty2040 led badge.

#Pimoroni have dimensioned diagrams for this, but they're randomly sized PNGs and impossible to print at 1:1 scale.

Now I'll be ready for my next conference.

Got my small system monitor thing to work. It's very barebones still, i want to add more data to it. But it shows me the essentials.

The screen (Tufty) asks my PC over serial for data, like CPU usage. On my desktop I have a driver python script that listens for requested data and sends it back. It also lets me turn off and on the screen and waits patiently for it to be back online.

The code is here: https://codeberg.org/akselmo/TuftySysMon

The code is absolutely horrid and I want to rewrite the driver in some other language. Perhaps Rust, perhaps Odin, perhaps something else.

But for now, it works and I'm happy with it.

#embedded #linux #Tufty2040

Starting my journey with all things Pi

I have so many questions!!!
Stupid questions alert!!

1. I assume that I can't remove the sd card with the OS
2. if I can't remove this card, can I add other programs to the card? I e.g. Kali
3. The cooler, new, it's not spinning. Does it activates only when needed as opposed to always running?

Will be working today's on personalising Tufty 2040 for my wife's Xmas present.

Hopefully it will work!

#raspberrypi #RaspberryPi5 #tufty2040 #whitehat #new