28. June 2025
Rotary MIDI
Using the BLEMidi.h library, you can get your esp32, the goat
of dev boards, to be a midi server (instrument), or client (it’s complicated).
17. April 2025
Cookie Clicking
Cookie clicker is a video game where the goal is to click a cookie many times. Each click increments a click counter, and as the number of clicks increases power-ups are unlocked that accelerate the counter incrementing rate. Clearly this is a silly and futile endeavor. But not all silly and futile endeavors are entirely pointless. Enter the Arduino leonardo, an IC controller that can act as a keyboard and mouse.
09. May 2024
Using ollama to make an epub synopsis
Like everyone else, I do my best to read many books, and like many, I find it to be a challenge, not just in finding the time, but also I found after you’ve read enough books, especially non-fiction, a lot of the book seems like filler. Different books on the same subject will cover the same material, or the author will be needlessly verbose in covering a topic. I thought ‘if I just want to read this book for the content, not the style, could I shorten it with an ai tool to ease some of the pain points?’