I finally finished this custom USB Controller using a 12 position switch. The customer will be using it as a USB MIDI Controller where they want to select 11 different settings.
It's a bit taller than I'd like but the switch is pretty tall and I need a certain amount of space for the PCB and controller.
The enclosure is 3D printed and so is the knob. The multi-color prints for both came out great.
Now in stock on Lectronz: Chameleon - Grid Ortho Keyboard https://lectronz.com/products/chameleon-ortho-keyboard
#RaspberryPi #USB #Kits
Finished splitting out the #ultrafeeder from the #piaware pod. Even gave it it's own namespace so only those pods have elevated privileges to access the #SDR plugged into the #USB port. Both feeders are now connecting to that pod. Also started enabling #MLAT for bonus points, but had to give those pods a lot more CPU becausing that turns out to be very timing sensitive 
#mad ? #language #linux I ordered and paid for a #Linux starter pack on a #USB stick. They have sent me 5 cds/DVDs. I said on my order, "I do not have a cd drive on any of my kit". ? do people not read anymore? & no, won't be trying to transfer the files on the cd's onto a USB stick. Experience tells me i. this won't work ii. it will make the cd's unreadable on anything but the original device. & please don't suggest downloading from the #Linux site. Tried 3 times, each time, 'fail to install'.
RT1010Py is running MicroPython on Cortex M7 @ 500Mhz and now tanks to Robert Hammelrath got usbtinyuf2 bootloader so you can update you MicroPython firmwares with simple drag and drop like on PICO https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/rt1010py-the-micropython-board-running-at-500mhz-now-got-tinyuf2-bootloader-so-you-can-drag-and-drop-your-micropython-firmware-same-way-as-you-do-on-raspberry-pico/ #micropython #nxp #usb
Well, I guess I should've upgraded my Samsung instead of postponing another year and awaiting the S26 Ultra. #tarrifs
In other tech news, I fared much better.
www.theverge.com/tech/638566/...
@verge I am proudly micro usb free. Tossed my last device last week.
#computers #usb #tech
Tech
Well, I guess I should've upgraded my Samsung instead of postponing another years. #tarrifs
In other tech news, I fared better.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/638566/micro-usb-is-the-worst
@verge I am proudly micro usb free. Tossed my last device last week.
But for now, since it's only one now, it will be used to feed data into #flightradar24 and #flightaware Plan is to get another one and use a node selector so the ultrafeeder demands a node with an #RTL-SDR connected to a #USB power
The new "toy" arrived today, so now all four #USB ports on the node time are in use . In the long term, this will help build a cluster autoscaler handler/operator/thingy.
@Lazarou I assume you have the work around? Save image 1st then 'smoothly' do the Whatsapp bit. Yes, a lot of social media is going tghe way of the dodo bcause of lack of functionality. I'm awaiting my #Linux #USB 'starter' pack. Didn't want to but needs must. Fuck #Meta fuck #microsoft , back to coding, o what joy, not!
#FreeBSD users said "Hi" ...
(pain of using contained #USB in a #Linux distribution)
https://fosstodon.org/@linux_mclinuxface/114263429724683227
(pain of changing FreeBSD API for #Rust software -- "Tell me more
")
https://toot.cat/@imperio/114264924208051044
...
Found the drake version of this on LinkedIn and decided to remake it with a less toxic character.
I'd like to take a moment to appreciate #USB power delivery.
As a kid, I would have killed to be able to run my #GameBoy off my parents' car engine during road trips. To say nothing of the #GameGear's infamously high power draw.
Modern phones and portable game consoles can do just that, no problem. And thanks to that, they can get away with having glorious high-resolution emissive screens and fast CPUs. The idea of the Game Gear is now perfectly viable. Awesome.
I want to throw out a big #HotDamn to 20 years of #softwaredevelopment . I recently bought a used #Behringer #BCF2000 which had a #SysEx editor last developed in 2004 in #Java available for download from the official website. I downloaded the software to my #Fedora system and it recognized the device over the modern #Linux #USB interface and worked like a champ.
Well done, 20 years of #software develoment and backwards compatibility!
@buttplugio When Apple had the iMac in all those rainbow colors there was an "iBrator" spoof that sadly I cannot find anymore on the modern web. It was advertising USB-controlled vibrators in 5 tasty colors that could be daisy chained. I guess this was 1999? Anyone still have a reference to that? #apple #ibrator #usb #1999
Now in stock on Lectronz: Macropad - Little Big Scroll 6 https://lectronz.com/products/macropad-little-big-scroll-6
#Arduino #USB #Kits
More accessories from Apple subsidiary Beats: this time cables
Apple uses the brand reach of its audio subsidiary to sell high-margin accessories: After iPhone cases, USB-C cables are now following.
Mehr Zubehör von Apple-Tochter Beats: Diesmal Kabel
Apple nutzt die Markenreichweite seiner Audiotochter, um margenstarke Zubehörprodukte an Mann und Frau zu bringen: Nach iPhone-Hüllen folgen nun USB-C-Strippen.
I've just listened to an #ITSecurity presentation, which gave me a few more nightmares to worry about.
First, there is #Shodan , a search engine for the #Internet (as opposed to the World Wide Web), aka "how to find hackable things on the Internet". If you have any devices accessible via the Internet - such as security cameras - it can probably be found there. And there are numerous people and companies who leave these devices unsecured - as the presenter demonstrated.
Also, #USB cables exist which look like the real thing but contain secret WLAN access for hackers. They cost around $200 these days, and can only be distinguished from the real thing by #CT scans.
It is 10:20 Central European Time. Do you know what your networks are doing?
