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Re: on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:45AM (#47946503)
This is probably a good reminder that the EU-based alternative https://www.lectronz.com exists!
As @tehlike said in a sibling comment, it looks like it is supported by https://thingino.com, so you can 'update' the firmware to a more secure (and FOSS) one!
I made a home-brew seismic sensor using something similar, a hard disk head arm assembly, a cd-rom laser (which has an anisotropic lens and four photodiodes) and a Red Pitaya used as PID, so I guess it can be done!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @09:27AM (#41970829)
Last shipment of components shipped today, so I'll soon build the project I mentioned [last time](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700806), a remote for BabyBuddy. Main features are:

- 10 switches that I can assign to start/stop timers and trigger events (Kalih Choc Robin)

- One encoder + four way directional switch

- Round LCD display with touch

- 9 DoF IMU and ambient light sensor

I've started coding the firmware using Rust with the excellent embassy OS.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? on Monday September 30, 2024 @03:07PM (#41700806)
Late to the party - I'm building a "remote" for https://github.com/babybuddy for my future child. It's based around an esp32-s3 and has: - 10 switches that I can assign to start/stop timers and trigger events (Kalih Choc Robin) - One encoder + four way directional switch - Round LCD display with touch - 9 DoF IMU and ambient light sensor

If we won't use it for our child, I'll use it as a slightly overpowered macro keyboard :D

Of course I intend to publish it as soon as I have the first prototypes debugged!

Just a heads-up: Waze is owned by Google [1] now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze#Google_subsidiary

Re:Apple Introduces iOS 8 on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:14PM (#7835400)
Well, they said that data will reside on your device only (no default internet access for custom keyboards, too).
A nice log graph would be better than the linear ones IMO, especially when the scale stretches a lot (like in the Database Insert tab)