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by byb 2mo ago
Hi, thank you, but I don't want to steal credit for PicoModem, which is a different project that passes modem AT commands over Wi-Fi https://github.com/mecparts/PicoWiFiModem I was not familiar with the Oric, but
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by byb 2mo ago
Author here - original HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654676
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by byb 3mo ago
I'm flattered. You asked very good questions. I'd be happy to de-mystify it with a longer conversation. Find me on LinkedIn: 白一百
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by byb 3mo ago
Author here: I have wanted to make a wireless USB mouse and keyboard switch out of RPI Pico Ws for a long time. I would go a layer deeper than USB/IP, because I want to cache the USB handshake to keep the connection enumerated on multi
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by byb 3mo ago
Author here: good point - I do hope the retro computing community enjoys this tool. It does remind me of the Espressif line if ESP8266 and ESP32 devices which have Wi-Fi devices which are available on UART and respond to AT modem commands.
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by byb 3mo ago
Author here: thank you for this deep dive. I saw peaks of 5.9 Mbps, it might be possible to increase throughput by allocating more memory. The link between the rp2040 and Infineon Wi-Fi device is 31.5 Mb/s. It might be possible to push
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by byb 3mo ago
Author here: Thank you, this is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about my work. I achieved two goals today: a front page post on hackernews and for being recognized for my work; or more accurately, for being very good at using
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by byb 3mo ago
Author here: You're welcome!
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by byb 3mo ago
Author here: I will consider writing a blog about ir, but it will require a lot of work on my part, because as I mentioned, this was a digression/side quest from the main task of hacking my Spotify Car Thing. It might work better as a
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by byb 3mo ago
Author here: Thank you! It's a nice thought that something I made will become a trusted tool for IT professionals. Now I need to make a nice 3D-printed case. I admit, I almost couldn't believe it when I turned off my regular blazi
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by byb 3mo ago
Author here: this is actually a "side quest" which I alluded to in the README.adoc and another comment. I've had a few Spotify Car Things (SuperBird) sitting on my desk that I have not touched in a year because I was waiting
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by byb 3mo ago
No, it's not really easier to buy a Wi-Fi dongle. My target device is the Spotify Car Thing and SuperBird doesn't have Wi-Fi components. My Claude Code Pro subscription was idle, so it cost me nothing. Also, according to an articl
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by byb 3mo ago
Exactly, bit banging an 8-bit bus isn't that different from pushing the data out of the USB port. It would be great to try an LLM trained on pre-1900 documents and ask it if powered flight is possible. Great work on PicoGUS.
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by byb 3mo ago
It's one of the neat features of the AsciiDoc language. The user is able to change captions mid document, in this case :figure-caption:. AsciiDoc and Antora are things I've invested a lot of my time into https://baiyiba
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Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter(gitlab.com)
269 points by byb 3mo ago|132 comments
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by byb 3mo ago
pico-usb-wifi is firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico W that turns it into a driverless USB Wi-Fi adapter, enumerating as a USB CDC-NCM device.
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by byb 7mo ago
Embrace cheap hardware. CachyOS on a 200-300 USD Intel n100 tablet with a wired or wireless keyboard of your choice is my go-to recommendation these days. I have one connected to a 4k display and it handles 4k YouTube just fine. It handles
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by byb 8mo ago
Yes, a neat follow-up would be to clone the copy protection device with a cheap microcontroller. A lot of these devices were filled with epoxy, but it would be funny to find out these were all just 1Kbit EEPROMs. Such an article could give
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by byb 8mo ago
Neat. A personal tone trainer. Seriously, shut up and take my money now. Of course, it needs a vocabulary trainer, and zhuyin/traditional character support.
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by byb 8mo ago
My biggest source of paranoia is my open home assistant port, while it requires a strong password and is TLS-encrypted, I'm sure that one day someone will find an exploit letting them in, and then the attacker will rapidly turn my smar
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by byb 9mo ago
What a story. This brings back memories and ties directly into my life. In fall of 1999, I built my first PC with an Abit BE6 to use with an Intel Pentium 3 'Coppermine' 500 MHz. I was a fifteen year old kid working at pizzeria in
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by byb 10mo ago
The website https://nissan.com shows how to avoid this outcome.
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by byb 1y ago
They were listed in the numerous other replies, and in the initial blog post. Both have been dismissed as undesirable/unworkable. What's your point. I'm not interested in a discussion as to whether alternatives exist, I'
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by byb 1y ago
The two alternative solutions posed so far are 1) drop the ai bounty program 2) charge for submissions. Present an alternative.
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by byb 1y ago
We are witnessing a new eternal summer and the only way to stem to tide is to increase the amount of required personal identifying information to register, and then publicly shame these people as a warning to others. Maybe it is a good thin
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by byb 1y ago
I'm hoping more people will author articles about using these types of displays full time. There was an article posted a month ago about someone using XREAL ONEs with an x86 PC and a portable power bank. https://news.ycombi
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by byb 2y ago
e/OS is the best. To anyone reading this, give it a shot - you can break from from Apple and whatever spyware garbage is installed on your Android phone. I've installed it to three devices and have daily driven it since June 2023.
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by byb 2y ago
I'd like to plug AsciiiDoctor-Web-PDF. Simple AsciiDoctor markup + the resume template and you get a really nice PDF and HTML output. https://github.com/ggrossetie/asciidoctor-web-pdf
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by byb 2y ago
100% agree. Most of my bare except: are followed by import pdb;pdb.set_trace() so I can figure out what went wrong and then fix my code so that it never happens again, but I still leave it there because I I don't have time to consider
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by byb 2y ago
great read. I have several Daikin split units and installed Faikins on them. https://github.com/revk/ESP32-Faikin Having the PCBs made, flashing them, sourcing the connectors,and installing them was a bit involved, bu

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