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Tinker Tuesday for October 13th, 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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120 t-shirts, 80 hats, 100 keychains, 250 marked glass mugs, and 50 electro-etched brass hat pins, and a town festival that went well enough. Sold enough to be happy with it, didn't sell enough to be out of anything, stick a fork in it... except now the brewery wants laser-etched club member cards.

Working on a limited debug mode (and precursor for a DAP) for an RP2350+ESP32 combo. I'm not quite to the point where I'm comfortable just pointing the slop cannons at this project, so it's mostly been a matter of using the LLM for sanity-checks of the implementation, but there's been a few points where it's tempting. Still, it's a toy version of the real problem, and if I can't write this code, it's not going to be practical for a student to expand it.