maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

working with open source

2024 fediverse users: god this place is becoming so cliquey

2017 fediverse users:

M5Sound now can load samples from SD card

here it is playing a 3 MB sample with 1024 bytes for the I2S buffer and 256 bytes for the file buffer

not as impressive as it could be considering this is on top of (at least tested so far) 4-channel software mixing for playback that i'm not demonstrating here

this is a machine with less than 200 KB free for the micropython stack

rudimentary sequencer

three channel software mixing, queue scheduler

added sample pitching LUTs, still quite performant

wrote an I2S sample player/sequencer module in micropython

few things will make me as emotional as the very closing of the BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series with the Journey of the Sorcerer motif

wrote an irc client for it.

new toy

light reading today

weird thing @LaserScheme just noticed: US/EUR dreamcasts say "compatible with". JP dreamcasts say "designed for".

to run HELL, type HELL (or HECK).

here's a problem i've been thinking about for a couple years now

i got a Typestar 10-II, it is immensely cost cut and barely has any features.

i want to make it into an ASCII printer. i don't have a logic analyzer to figure out the communication or levels between the controller and the print head. i thought about faking keypresses but i'm not sure what i can use to close a circuit like a key. by my account if i wanted to use 4066s it would go out of hand in part count fast.

what would you do?

sickos voice after a few hours of python yes ha ha yes

is there a type of quasi-OCR already done that i can leverage to just recognize exact characters which are always rendered identically like this or do i need to get my paws dirty in the python mines

#programming #ocr #python