Liz @pursuitofnerdiness@witches.town

Find me at @pursuitofnerdiness @pursuitofnerdiness instead of here 👋

okay well at least the LEDs and the microcontroller are safe, but the level shifting board might be toast. Sigh.

Aaaand I think I just accidentally shorted something and now will have to start over and probably destroyed everything, wow, I hate this.

Spare sparkfun board saves the day, amazingly

https://witches.town/media/b2BROKOVPO-6kmAWdg4

And now I remember why I don't like the Adafruit Huzzah: because it doesn't have USB and it also has a really weird upload procedure and I can't seem to upload my code to it. :/

Okay, so, it seems like the LEDs don't want to play with this cheapo ESP8266, even with level shifting. So back to the full priced one...

https://witches.town/media/y9584R2uz7p_Bfst_4o

LEDs pass strandtest yay
https://witches.town/media/7bZlcxeohWu8tF2LGmY
https://witches.town/media/iS8iHqI6OayxHH_WBRc

trying to remember where the heck I was on this project because I can pick up new colors just fine over wifi, so maybe the problem was with the LEDs, which I don't have hooked up yet. https://witches.town/media/sYCKvf07OoUCRCEJkBg

LED fun times will hopefully resume tonight... I promised a Cheerlights tree to a friend so, uh, I should get on that.

I bought a few cheapo ESP8266 boards (wemos mini clones) from AliExpress but for some reason I can't get them working with my previous cheerlights code. I might work at it a bit more but I also bought a Huzzah from Adafruit just like my last one so that had better work.

This is the thing: https://brightcolorfulflickers.github.io/2016/12/03/cheerlights-christmas-tree/

Putting this on my resume #testimonials #AnimalCrossingPocketCamp

https://witches.town/media/zK40hDKYa0KkbcBa1Kk

Happy 25th birthday to Yuuri Katsuki! 🎉 🎈 🎂⛸ (well, it's already 11/29 in Japan, anyway) #yurionice

Based on this tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/using-ifttt-with-adafruit-io/overview -- follow their guide for setting up a feed on adafruit.io and IFTTT.

Use a Feather Huzzah (https://www.adafruit.com/product/2821). Solder the door sensor on 13 and ground. Ignore the other battery stuff and use a USB wall charger.

Grab the latest version of the Adafruit IO library for Arduino and use this example as a basis: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_IO_Arduino/tree/master/examples/adafruitio_00_publish

Modify config.h to your wifi/key. Modify adafruitio_00_publish.ino to be this: https://pastebin.com/6fBVR5q6

This is very rough but some people were interested so here it is.

cc: @corndog @JoshuaACNewman

Tex is relatable. #AnimalCrossingPocketCamp

https://witches.town/media/byLX7k3DhoJZbNf_JtI

https://witches.town/media/CjUkMvK8eI5lnyZNdFk

So literally two minutes after I called to ask about yet another entry notice for pest control... yup, someone's in there. https://witches.town/media/NopXw_u-M6SR27XigPw

I have reason to believe my landlord is entering my apartment excessively so I threw this together last night and tested it at 2 am... Now I wait.

https://witches.town/media/EU02xy2rkcYjNJT-f64 https://witches.town/media/L4dMmuCc4Ee3NTcjnws

beta reading the last chapter of a fic that's been going for months and AHHHH

Oh no, Ashley is injured and I'm so sad... please get better soon... 😭 Wakaba is now in the final but I didn't want it to happen like this... #SkateAmerica