●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, May 22, 2023 ●● ● May 22 [00:47] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:53] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@nqkitbgnqjad4.irc) has joined #techbytes [00:59] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes ● May 22 [01:00] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● May 22 [02:37] schestowitz Re: RMS, the FSF and Big Business [02:37] schestowitz > Hey Roy: [02:37] schestowitz > [02:37] schestowitz > I'm writing the screenplay for a short film. It's meant to promote the [02:37] schestowitz > FSF and rally supporters to the cause. [02:37] schestowitz > [02:37] schestowitz > It's hard sometimes to get the facts from the web, working all by myself [02:37] schestowitz > in Jamaica with only the web to advise me. If you've got any really good [02:37] schestowitz > articles at TechRights that could throw some more light on who and what [02:37] schestowitz > was really behind the attempts to dethrone RMS in 2019, please send me [02:37] schestowitz > the links. [02:37] schestowitz > [02:37] schestowitz > I already indicated in 2019 that I believe big business - Microsoft, [02:37] schestowitz > Google, etc etc - had already been looking for ways to destroy the FSF [02:37] schestowitz > and control Free Software. The Epstein saga just gave them their long [02:37] schestowitz > sought for excuse - albeit an ill-conceived one. [02:37] schestowitz > [02:37] schestowitz > I can see the plans that have unfolded to "defund" the FSF. Their [02:37] schestowitz > patrons page is almost empty: [02:37] schestowitz > https://www.fsf.org/patrons [02:37] schestowitz > [02:37] schestowitz > I don't plan to mention the name "Epstein" in the short film. I just [02:37] schestowitz > want to present the essence of the opposition and their real objectives. [02:37] schestowitz IBM played a role as well. Is there a finer point you need clarification on? I can link to some pages given more specificity. [02:37] schestowitz Also see http://techrights.org/2019/12/21/police-report-bill-gates/ [02:37] schestowitz This was around the time Bill Gates passed money to my boss under an NDA and then my wife and I were being bullied. [02:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fsf.org | Current patrons Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [02:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Mansion of Pedophilia Part II: Dr. Stallman Defamed in the Media One Day After Request Made for King County Sheriffs Office to Divulge Information About Pedophilia in Home of Bill Gates | Techrights [02:41] schestowitz Interesting. [02:41] schestowitz I took a look at all of it. [02:41] schestowitz We can talk in Mumble about it. [02:41] schestowitz Also see https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/05/21/action-fraud-batch-processing/ [02:41] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Action Fraud (British Police) Batch-Processing Cases Without Actually Dealing With Them? ● May 22 [10:00] *GNUmoon2 has quit (connection closed) [10:00] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@ave3s77w85udu.irc) has joined #techbytes ● May 22 [11:01] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [11:09] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [11:20] schestowitz
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    DIY air hockey table uses an Arduino to keep score
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    In terms of scoring, a player receives a point when their puck passes below the opponents goal, which meant Underwood needed some way of consistently detecting when the puck crosses the line. To do this, she created a small sketch for an Arduino Uno Rev3 that checked the state of a phototransistor and incremented the score when triggered. Although this worked initially, she did acknowledge t [11:20] schestowitz hat further improvements are needed to prevent false positives.

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    Control a thermal printer with your Arduino
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    This model, a QR204, and most others like it, receive print content through an RS232 serial communications port. It has an internal microcontroller that lets it interpret what it receives over serial. If that is simple text, then it will print the text and move to the next line. But it also accepts commands in the form of special characters to modify the output, such as increasing the text size [11:21] schestowitz . It can also print low-resolution images sent in the form of bitmap arrays. Krejci explains how to do all of that in the video.

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