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by wdfx 2y ago
I remember playing this on my father's 8086 and later 286 machines as a kid. I believe this is the first time I've thought of or seen the game in over 30 years. Nice :)
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by wdfx 2y ago
I've been building a MIDI device using PlatformIO with ESP-IDF: https://bitbucket.org/doughammond/fourays/src/master/firmwar... I used this combination because I found USB device support in Arduino
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by wdfx 2y ago
You're assuming the tank switch is low voltage. The very first thing to do is read the manual for the installation and/or parts used. Second, approach the tank setup with a high voltage multimeter and carefully and safely take mea
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by wdfx 2y ago
I believe this is because the yaml is in fact the instructions for what to include in the binary. It wouldn't be feasible for the firmware to include all possible device and peripheral code and enable parts at run time. I think you can
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by wdfx 2y ago
To quote myself from a previous blog post of mine: > I tried and tried and tried to get into [FreeCAD]. It promises so much, but there are two fatal flaws in my opinion. First, the UI is a nightmare. I have no idea which "workbench&
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by wdfx 2y ago
This for me, for quite a while now. I've built my own speakers, microphones and now I'm in a DIY synth module hole. Latest at https://fourays.lon.dev I've just got to the point where I think I know what the module
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by wdfx 2y ago
TIL that the Burj Khalifa is taller than Vatican City is wide.
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by wdfx 3y ago
yadm https://yadm.io/ uses git for file management, but also provides some convenience on top of that
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Fourays: Updating Firmware and Debating Hardware Design (retro synth design)(doug.lon.dev)
1 points by wdfx 3y ago|1 comments
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by wdfx 3y ago
Update from the last month's worth of work on my hobby synth project.
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by wdfx 3y ago
I know there's more to it; I'm just being overly cynical this Monday morning.
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by wdfx 3y ago
This is a fairer interpretation, thanks. > be shown the door by Microsoft (where he worked) because he (inadvertently) wrote and released a piece of software that competed with an upcoming Windows feature It's a shame though that th
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by wdfx 3y ago
So, the lesson here is to take something which you know to be a sub-optimal product, simultaneously sell and abandon it, and spend all the proceeds on luxury goods?
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by wdfx 3y ago
For the thankfully very short period that I ever used SVN, I remember it being massively painful if the network was down. The local processes would just hang and then your entire workspace was pretty much unusable. Couple this with a single
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by wdfx 3y ago
I do agree - but back when Sintel was produced, I could just download all the assets as well for free and without (a rather expensive) subscription. I was just a bit surprised how that had changed, given the history of Blender with being tr
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by wdfx 3y ago
Sort of open > You can join Blender Studio for €11.50/month and get access to all of our training & film content instantly! I get that there's costs involved in the content development and distribution, and payment for cont
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by wdfx 3y ago
I WAS WRONG: https://doug.lon.dev/blog/2024/fourays/chip-testing/ My testing was flawed, in fact all but one of the chips work. Pretty happy about that :)
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by wdfx 3y ago
I finally got around to testing them all. It turns out that of the 2 I already picked off the top of the stack, one works perfectly and the other works mostly but is slightly intermittent. The remaining 8 are all either dead or not AY chips
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by wdfx 3y ago
For sure the 50% square wave is a limitation, but sometimes such limitations feed creativity. That's also why I intend to couple the oscillators to filters, so there's another dimension to play with.
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by wdfx 3y ago
I'm not quite at that stage, perhaps in the next couple of weeks and for the next article.
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by wdfx 3y ago
I am limited in the current design for clock sources but I intend to implement pitchbend so it'll be possible to detune two voices that would otherwise be sounding in unison.
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by wdfx 3y ago
That hadn't really occurred to me actually. I'll keep it in mind as I start mixing multiple chips together.
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by wdfx 3y ago
Thank you. I definitely intend to get this together, there's a lot of satisfaction to be had using a device you designed and built yourself.
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by wdfx 3y ago
Yeah it's strange, they've clearly been relabeled and maybe only the top two I tested are real. Even if that is true I still have a couple of new toys to play with. I'll test the rest tomorrow.
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Fourays: A Tribute to the AY-3-8910(doug.lon.dev)
44 points by wdfx 3y ago|26 comments
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by wdfx 3y ago
Fair. To be honest I'm only half paying attention here sitting in the pub doing open mic
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by wdfx 3y ago
Again to clarify I'm also referring to the listener who uses some means to download the content locally to consume and therefore doesn't rely on any platform to use the content.
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by wdfx 3y ago
I expected this reply and it's good to debate the fairness of platforms towards artists, but I don't really want to get into that. My point is that if you're freeloading music then the artist gets precisely 0.00 which is less
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by wdfx 3y ago
Nothing is free. If you enjoy the hard worked output of musicians then you really should contribute something back to the system which supports them and allows the delivery of their creativity to your ears.
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by wdfx 3y ago
How have I only just found out that yt premium includes yt music? I've been subscribed to yt music for years but not yt itself. And nowadays I do watch more content on yt than listen on yt music. So it turns out yt premium is pretty mu

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