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| schestowitz__ | >>> Do you have a Raspberry Pi there? | Mar 24 01:12 |
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| schestowitz__ | >> No, I never saw the reason to buy one and now might be hard to buy things. | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | > Mail order should work ok, in the cases where the package is delivered | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | > and does not require a trip to town. | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | It might require a trip depending on circumstances. | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | >> Rianne is trying to now sell something... with an actual bank cheque. | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | > I had to get a bank cheque a few years ago. I was only able to do so | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | > because, after about an hour of faffing about, the clerk opened the | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | > wrong drawer and I spotted the corner of one under a pile of other | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | > stuff. No one on staff even knew what one was. | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | I recently got one as a refund. I will need to deposit it soon (it has been months) | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> I am thinking of ordering parts to solder LEDs, switches, and a buzzer | Mar 24 01:12 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> to a permanent bread board[1] kit to plug onto one I have here. I can | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> assemble the bread board for you and send it. I can even solder the | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> LEDs and other components. Would you like one if I put it together or | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> just bundle the parts? | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >> I am not sure what the device would be used for. I've checked the link, | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >> but it renders poorly in my browser and I think there''s context I am | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >> missing here. | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >> | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> With it you or Rianne can write short perl, python, or whatever scripts | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> for status indicators and warnings. C works too just as well. Given | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> the programmability the result is quite flexible and very easy to work | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> with. | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | >> Status indicator for the sites? | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > Yes, or any site or service. The board is for hooking LEDs and such to | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > the GPIO and then the GPIO can be scripted to respond to anything, even | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > checking the time of day and modifying the response according to the | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > time. Or in accordance to the sun or the weather or whatever. | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | Let's first wait and see what happens with lockdown policies. | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > I ask because I have some stuff wired to my router's GPIO but need a | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > more stable arrangement than a solderless bread board. They are cheap | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > so I figured I could make two and send one to you, if you had a | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > Raspberry Pi already. | Mar 24 01:13 |
| schestowitz__ | Maybe I should have bought one. But I never did. | Mar 24 01:13 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/idahosbestbill/status/1242159959103524866 | Mar 24 08:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@idahosbestbill: @schestowitz But he doesn’t bother to show up and vote. Fraud. | Mar 24 08:43 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/idahosbestbill/status/1242159747500888071 | Mar 24 08:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@idahosbestbill: @schestowitz Rather inconvenient to propose giving the Federal Government total control of our health care at the s… https://t.co/Gi5OCYFdQi | Mar 24 08:43 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@idahosbestbill: @schestowitz Rather inconvenient to propose giving the Federal Government total control of our health care at the s… https://t.co/Gi5OCYFdQi | Mar 24 08:43 | |
| schestowitz__ | Rather inconvenient to propose giving the Federal Government total control of our health care at the same time they are failing miserably to respond to a very predictable public health crisis."" | Mar 24 08:43 |
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