Posts

With engineering focus on reducing incidents and improving operational reliability, I frequently come back to the realization that humans are fallible and we should be learning ways to nudge people toward success rather than failure.

I’ve had cause to looked into research and ideas about the ways information flows within organizations. Discussions about transparency, decision making, empowering teams, and trust seem to intersect at organizational communication and information flows.

I have been wanting to play around with an ESP32-based micro for a while. Once I became comfortable with Adafruit’s microcontrollers and CircuitPython, I thought I’d try out some of their ESP32 offerings. I bought a few Airlift (ESP32) Featherwings to use with the Feather RP2040 boards I was experimenting with.

Looking back at one of the first real projects I attempted which combined 3D printing and microprocessors. I received an Creality Ender 3 V2 a year ago and after playing around with some test prints, I wanted to try building some more interesting and complex projects. I came across this fiber optic LED lamp project via Instructables. It was just the right amount of 3D printing, microprocessors, and coding I was looking for at the time.

I’ve been playing around with some WS2818 / NeoPixel LED 8x8 grids and CircuitPython. The CircuitPython ecosystem is really rich and Adafruit makes some very handy support libraries. I was using the LED Animation library to create some patterns on the neopixel grid, but wanted to try adding more capabilities. The time-slicing approach made it nice to add other code without blocking the program executing while the animations were happening.

“Developers should only need Github Issues and Pull Requests to do their job” — Why should anyone need more than that to track work?

Practice makes perfect — Anonymous Parent