I bought one of the cheapest USB mice on eBay. Unsurprisingly it felt really light and flimsy.
Through the magic of hot glue and metal nuts it now has some weight to it and feels pretty good.
I have been thinking about text editing in BASIC quite a bit lately.
Quite often my thoughts move on to word processing.
The actual practical need I have for a Tiny BASIC computer would be word processing blog posts, and browsing gopher.
The board I have ordered, the TTGO VGA32, has WiFi capabilities, and Stefan's Tiny BASIC supports internetworking.
Perhaps it is time to write a word processor and gopher client??
where can you get serial/I2C memory for cheap?
the kind that you can attach to an arduino microcontroller?
@AmenZwa I was thinking about your https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/PL/FortranModernisation/ . In my small experience, research labs at at least some universities have been deeply opposed to fortran, and supportive of writing what should have been and almost was fortran in python or non-fortran-using matlab. Switching to Fortran being above their paygrade, and inimical to their business community besides.
Though, I do agree with you that if you want to write some algebra, writing fortran directly is suitable language for that.
I was discussing book publishing with a person who has been writing a really interesting book about making retro games for old computers.
Their problem is that to very a nice print (as opposed to epub) the screenshots have to be high resolution. And here's the question:
Is there a nice way to upscsle a small screenshot from an emulator and add CRT effects so that it looks like it has been photographed off an old monitor? Preferably something that can be run in batch mode?
Please boost for a bit better reach, since I don't think this is a very common need.
"we decided to nix that idea"
"you mean painstakingly enumerate every one of its dependencies to ensure that it will work consistently in other contexts?"
@dgar OMG, i forgot just _how_ big it was (I also tend to not build any bulidinglike structures it seems)
Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day!
How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game!
Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important.
@Suiseiseki I see. I am not so bothered by pins, I have several RP2040s but it feels a little dirty to use them.
I know of the ATmega1284, but those are expensive.
@Suiseiseki i'm looking for good microcontrollers... anything with 8K RAM and above is good--do you have any suggestions?
floppy disk digital cameras are so fucking cool. yeah, the camera on my phone is literally 100 times better, that's not the point. its aesthetics, baby.
where can you get serial/I2C memory for cheap?
the kind that you can attach to an arduino microcontroller?
still noodling around in BASIC
this time a little text editing virtual machine
i got to the end of the exploration and kinda scratched my head--why does this make sense in about 70 lines of code?