Posts by Ramil (148)

Updates of This thing and That thing

First of all, I was considering removing (or hiding) the whole "social media" portion of this website since in some way it didn't make sense to have it. BUT. Now there is AT LEAST one other human being, Devon The Great Zeek, who used it! Not only that, but he also used it in an expected way i.e. by leaving a praising comment about how awesome I am and how amazing my work is. Just kidding, I expected total ANARCHY. (I should really add Markdown to these posts). Anyway, what does it mean for me? It means that I now have a thing I feared the most, an audience with a NAME. You see, for some reason, I felt no pressure blogging to an Anonymous audience. It's very similar to how people ride trains in Russia. Huh? Yes, for some reason, trains in Russia have this mystical property which allows strangers to tell one another stories of their lives. No filters whatsoever. And I think it's very similar to anonymity. BUT this trip ends for me TODAY. Which is a good thing, because I never intended to ride with strangers forever. What now? Well, Devon, if you are indeed a real person and not a marketing bot (which I fought quite a lot in the last couple of weeks, so it's possible that you are just a more advanced version, i.e. SKYNET), you are now representing the whole internet community, so your words will be treated as such. How does this pressure feel!? And remember, with great power comes great responsibility. Also, I should have made it easier to address people, but oh well. Now the Longboard, 2 words: Machine Learning and Bluetooth. Enough said, back to work.

Weekly Update

It's funny how weekly updates aren't actually weekly. Anyway, several things going on: 1. Rewrote the code that controls the board and made it 1000 times better. It gave me so much pleasure writing it! Fantastic! 2. Re.. Damn, taking care of infants is so freaking exhausting! 3. Filmed some footage for the project 4. Launched kickstarter To Dos: Time to become a professional producer and video editor I also want to start learning Django, since while flask is cool, Django seems to have more functionality, at least, easily accessible one

My own InfraRed Journey

As mentioned previously, raspbian has problems with LIRC, the common IR library. So instead I'll go back 'to the roots', and by that I mean 'pigpio'. Going to keep track of what I did in case I need to come back 0. 'pip3 install --upgrade --force-reinstall pigpio' 1. Install 'sudo apt-get install pigpio python-pigpio python3-pigpio' 2. Check status 'sudo systemctl status pigpiod' 3. Start 'sudo systemctl start pigpiod' 4. Get ir_hasher 5. Pseudo Code: import time, pigpio, ir_hasher def callback(hash): print(f'hash={hash}') pi = pigpio.pi() ir = ir_hasher.hasher(pi, 17, callback, 5) time.sleep(30) pi.stop() Note: implement Markdown on website

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