Fun fact Voyager 2 was launched before Voyager 1.

Printed with two PETG filaments on a glass bed with hairspray. Printed the black lines (with a custom end code that doesn’t turns off motors) then printed the white over it in a separate gcode (also with custom start with no homing). It even allows me to go with an exact and cut off hairs and blobs before laying the white. The. The two fuse on the same layer so the color isn’t sticking out.

I kept burning my food or wait forever for the pan to heat up and I finally understand why. Each knob has a different direction for the Hi and Lo (also why isn’t it Low).

Here is my new serial starting code. It takes some time to start printing the serial after the command is set. Usually you simply add a delay, but that delay can be longer than the time your serial takes to connect, so you're waiting for nothing and when you're trying to troubleshoot that becomes frustrating. The other option is the check if the serial started with while (!Serial) { delay(10); } but then your code doesn't run without a serial connection so it just hangs if you try it off a battery or USB charger block.

Here comes the best of both worlds!

It checks for a serial connection every 10 ms but only for 3 seconds, then it goes on. The commented out line is to print how long it takes for your serial to show up. It was useful to determine 3s was a good number (I landed around 2100 to 2700 ms so 3000 gives me just a bit of padding while still being fairly fast when not plugged to a serial console.

Bonus is the giant ASCII START logo I made so I can easily see where it started when scrolling back up.

You can throw this at the top of your setup() or even better, make it a function and call it, so you only need to comment out a single line when you go testing it without a computer and save those precious 3 seconds at startup.

Enjoy!

  Serial.begin(115200);
  unsigned long time_begin = millis();
  while (!Serial && (millis() - time_begin) < 3000) {
    delay(10);
    // Serial.println(millis() - time_begin);
  }
  delay(10);
  Serial.println(" ");
  Serial.println("       ::::::::   :::::::::::       :::        :::::::::   ::::::::::: ");
  Serial.println("     :+:    :+:      :+:         :+: :+:      :+:    :+:      :+:      ");
  Serial.println("    +:+             +:+        +:+   +:+     +:+    +:+      +:+       ");
  Serial.println("   +#++:++#++      +#+       +#++:++#++:    +#++:++#:       +#+        ");
  Serial.println("         +#+      +#+       +#+     +#+    +#+    +#+      +#+         ");
  Serial.println(" #+#    #+#      #+#       #+#     #+#    #+#    #+#      #+#          ");
  Serial.println(" ########       ###       ###     ###    ###    ###      ###           ");
  Serial.println(" ");
  Serial.println(" ");

PS: it looks like Lemmy can't handle color coded markdown... :(

I'm using this really nice board, it has a RP2040, a round touchscreen and a Gyro/Acc module all in one (plus a RTC and Battery management). My issue is with the IMU, the QMI8658 is supposed to have a fusion algorithm embedded but I can't seem to get it to work. Anyone else has tried this? I'm looked at the chip documentation and tried to modify the registers via I2C but I still don't get any values for the Quaternions... I'm feeling really alone with this issue and I feel like I would have been able to get an answer back on Reddit but I want to try here first..

Then you try to charade what they look like, then your coworker starts going down a list of other coworkers names and you’re like “Honey, I don’t know anyone’s name, not even yours. Except of Charley from accounting, he as the same name as my nephew, he also kinda looks like him, but as a grown ass man. Then you wonder what would happen if they met, would they become friends? They don’t have much else in commun though… anyways, I don’t know who I spoke to, sorry.

Edit: I didn’t proof read my post until it was posted.

Once again I messed the pill count and didn’t renew my prescription in time sol I’ll be riding this coming week dry… thanks stupid US medical system.

UPDATE: I had to pay out of pocket. $120 because my doc didn’t fill some random paper so I could get the meds, but insurance won’t cover it. It takes 6 months to get an appointment with my doc. I saw him last week and he said he would send a refill, he did t. My pharmacy the requested after I called to check. No go. I called the nurse and asked — automated voicemail. I’m done. I’m done I’m done.

I'm a Steadicam operator and admin of The Steadicam Operators Group on Facebook. I would love to see our community move away from that bad bad platform to a better one. This one here would be great!

Alexa35 on my Steadicam with Laowa probe lens for a commercial.