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As @tehlike said in a sibling comment, it looks like it is supported by https://thingino.com, so you can 'update' the firmware to a more secure (and FOSS) one!


I made a home-brew seismic sensor using something similar, a hard disk head arm assembly, a cd-rom laser (which has an anisotropic lens and four photodiodes) and a Red Pitaya used as PID, so I guess it can be done!


Oh man, this is giving me The Amateur Scientist vibes. What would C. L. Stong be doing with today's technology?


Last shipment of components shipped today, so I'll soon build the project I mentioned [last time](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700806), a remote for BabyBuddy. Main features are:

- 10 switches that I can assign to start/stop timers and trigger events (Kalih Choc Robin)

- One encoder + four way directional switch

- Round LCD display with touch

- 9 DoF IMU and ambient light sensor

I've started coding the firmware using Rust with the excellent embassy OS.


Late to the party - I'm building a "remote" for https://github.com/babybuddy for my future child. It's based around an esp32-s3 and has: - 10 switches that I can assign to start/stop timers and trigger events (Kalih Choc Robin) - One encoder + four way directional switch - Round LCD display with touch - 9 DoF IMU and ambient light sensor

If we won't use it for our child, I'll use it as a slightly overpowered macro keyboard :D

Of course I intend to publish it as soon as I have the first prototypes debugged!


Just a heads-up: Waze is owned by Google [1] now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze#Google_subsidiary


Waze was recommended by family for a trip to Israel.

The good news: Available for Windows Phone (which I had at that time)

The bad news: In order to use it access to my address book.

For a navigation app?

WHAT THE FUCK!


Peeves me that in order to control Spotify from Waze I have to agree to share my Waze location data w/ Spotify...

I really wish we had regulations that limited companies from blocking functionality behind data-walls.


probably to suggest destinations


That would be true if it was optional, not required.


Well, they said that data will reside on your device only (no default internet access for custom keyboards, too).


A nice log graph would be better than the linear ones IMO, especially when the scale stretches a lot (like in the Database Insert tab)


True, but I thought that that would look disingenuous, because it would look like the worker times scale logarithmically when they are about as linear as you can get.


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