Was trying to figure out why only four lines were printed on the display as I was writing the driver this morning, took me a whole hour, re-read the datasheet like ten times only to realize that I made the hexadecimal rookie mistake. I was printing 0x01instead of 0xFF and…
It's been about five days since I've started working on the display driver for the SSD1306 and I'm quite happy with the progress so far, I have to say. Today I finally managed to write pixels to the screen, although the output was not…
Finally, I've managed to get the display to turn on. Only took about five days. I would have never imagined that just to turn the display on, you'd need to know so much. Then again, it's my first ever driver for hardware. I'…
Today I made a bit of progress with the display driver I have been attempting to write. Got a lot of the issues with the Zig version 0.14, mostly a skill issue on my part as I did not know how to fetch an untagged version of the dependency.…
Quite surprised about this myself. Initially I thought it would be quite nerve-wracking to be in front of a camera, maybe from past experience, but this feels a little bit easier. It's also maybe the fact that no one was watching. Had my first follower today, totally missed…
Revised Text As promised to myself a few days ago, I’ve done my first stream. It lasted just under an hour and wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I turned off all chats and told nobody about it. I thought it might be good to…
A few days ago I made myself a promise that I would start streaming by the 15th of March 2025. That's three days from today. I've got all the external things prepared like the webcam, mic and I even got a cheap light so that the…
fortitude /ˈfôrdəˌto͞od/ noun courage in pain or adversity The XY problem according to Wikipedia: The XY problem is a communication problem encountered in help desk, >technical support, software engineering, or customer service situations >where the question is about an end user's attempted solution (X) rather…