The vast majority are wired as GND, VCC, SCL, SDA, but there are a few odd ones. I accidentally fried one that had GND and Vcc swapped :(

like this is the shipping/handling/tax. If the product costs much less than these other costs, it's hard to sell them individually.

JLCPCB can make them for a good price as long as you choose one type of soldering. The SMD parts need a different soldering vs the 0.1" through hole headers. We chose to manually solder the 0.1" headers. JLC can do both, but the cost goes up quite a bit. The new challenge with selling projects

That's the first time I've seen one of my breakout PCBs in the wild. Nice :)

Martin and I are working on a new version that has a 24-pin e-Paper adapter on it too.

You may appreciate what I've created for the RPI and Arduino. A complete solution for driving all of these displays with a consistent API and support for interesting use cases:
youtu.be/a92cUrwSxw0

Code is here: github.com/bitbank2/bb_...

To honor your newfound youth, change your bsky name to "Mario, that kid from Austria who scraped supermarket prices"

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It started as an era when computers did nothing unless you wrote your own code to make them do something. Then the internet allowed us to share ideas and code. Then WWW allowed normal humans to use computers. Then came big $. Then things went steadily downhill.

Nice. That 8-bit parallel ST7789 should really fly when driven by the RP2350. I added support for old tufty to my bb_spi_lcd display library. The memory and DMA of the RP2040 are fast, but not the integer compute. It bogs down when decoding GIF or any other intensive task
youtu.be/_6C5H8DfnfU

How about EWTD (everything Windows touches dies)

Is that the original RP2040 Tufty or a newer (RP2350?) one?

It has seemed like there's a battle going on within Apple for some time now. The marketing/enshittification people constantly creating awful changes and chaos just to have something "new" each year and the sane engineers trying to keep the product working nicely.

Google ATAP was the same. They closed the entire research division and tossed all projects in the bin. Big companies have wanted to do this for a long time. Offshoring to low wage countries isn't good enough in today's fake valuation market. Small/med firms seem to be still doing actual work.

I think the most common WiFi problem I've seen is that the access points "run out" of DHCP addresses after a while and need to be restarted. Some memory leak / bad firmware causes this on a range of machines. Last month my apt's electric meter did this and needed a person to come and restart it.

There was a profound change starting in Dec 2023. The same managers that thought nothing of hiring tons of engineers only to fire them soon after are now the ones being fired. Tech companies are gleefully firing as many workers as possible to please their AI-enamored shareholders.

same

Turbo Pascal was a great IDE on early IBM PCs. What stood out was the speed and interactive nature of it on such a constrained (aka wimpy) machine. The lesson I took from it was that SW productivity was sometimes determined more by the tool than the language - I have negative feelings about Pascal.

New product idea

I'm going to attach a fan to the heatsink after I solder on a 40-pin header.