This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.
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Trying to brainstorm out an RP2350-based educational robot brain. I don't really want to like the chip, both because it's stupidly overkill except for the multi-UART environment I'm increasingly thinking is unavoidable, because the RaspPi foundation's got my hackles up, and because the 'recovery mode as USB drive' is the sort of thing that sounds great to engineers and makes any IT person wonder what the fuck they were smoking, but the PIO blocks are just so damned convenient... if they work.
I'd love to go with an STM32 part instead, if only for the much stronger recovery environment, but even if they make a cheap, small, 6+ UART hardware, good fucking luck finding it from their website. And it's pretty well outside of their wheelhouse, or the wheelhouses of anybody selling to peons in the <1k purchase range.
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