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Tinker Tuesday for June 9th, 2026

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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Continuing on RP2350 development, fighting the software on a Pico 2 while waiting for a board fab to get my first-run prototypes back (and inevitably show me how badly I fucked up several subsystems and how much I'm going to regret QFN for prototype-gen2).

I used to wonder why software debugging support on edutech microcontrollers was either deep in the SWD/JTAG weeds or absolutely nothing. All of the components exist: micropython supports tracing with a compile flag, DAP means you don't need to build a full IDE (albeit at the cost of writing Yet More Json), there's more than enough computer and memory overheard on normal boards that the processor and memory cost doesn't really matter; dual core and multi-processor systems are so common that you can buy them by accident.

I don't wonder anymore. Holy shit.