James Smith

@loopj.com

British guy in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having fun with hardware, software and reverse engineering. Former co-founder of Bugsnag.

Working on a DIY monitor riser system based around 10-inch "half rack" modules. It uses cheap Penn Elcom (or compatible) steel rack rails, hardware store lumber, and 3d-printed legs. I'm building this form factor for my desk - 5ft wide with a cubby for keyboard/laptop in the middle.

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👋 just released the first public version of libjoybus, an open implementation of the Nintendo Joybus protocol used by N64 and GameCube controllers, with initial support for Pi Pico (1 and 2) and SiLabs Gecko microcontrollers: github.com/loopj/libjoy...

GitHub - loopj/libjoybus: An implementation of the Joybus protocol used by N64 and GameCube controllers, for 32-bit microcontrollers

An implementation of the Joybus protocol used by N64 and GameCube controllers, for 32-bit microcontrollers - loopj/libjoybus

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A silly idea that turned out well! Most flex PCBs are cut by laser, not milled, so you can make perforations by adding incomplete edge cuts. These disks are for cleanly joining LED strips at different angles and different radii, and they break apart with just my fingers, no other tools.

A flex PCB with concentric copper rings and perforations so it can be torn into smaller arcs and wedges.The same flex PCB with one quarter of it torn out and turned into three curved connector pieces of different radii. The remaining board has a silkscreen that says "Do it [...] coward" in Jokerman font.

*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.

OpenOCD such a great tool but the development really is a hot mess. It is relied upon by so many projects, but still hosted on SOURCEFORGE. Every vendor is maintaining their own fork and nothing seems to get upstreamed. I don't know who the core maintainers are, but something has to change.

I'm stoked to have finally finished the Kawaii, a fully functional metal Wii keychain. It's way smaller than it looks— only as big as a Game Boy cartridge! ✨🟦✨ Huge thanks to @weskmods.bsky.social and @dingding-cnc.bsky.social for being awesome project partners!

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Weskmods@weskmods.bsky.social · last yr.

The Nintendo Kawaii, a collaboration project between myself, @mks.bsky.social and @dingding-cnc.bsky.social has finally been released fully open source! If you're brave enough to build one you'll have one of the most unique pieces of gaming jewellery ever. Info here: bitbuilt.net/forums/index...