RE: Merry Christmas Element14!

DAB — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:48:56 GMT

Nice project.

It is way too small for my old eyes, but I can see where it could be useful.

RE: Merry Christmas Element14!

scottiebabe — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:24:18 GMT

Merry Christmas to you ralphjy! and thanks for the kind words you have shared with me!

I have one of 240x135 waveshare displays, I believe it should be a simple change to run this on a 240x240 display.

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Thanks to having shabaz and baldengineer on each of my shoulders telling me to buy it and a moose mug in hand I bought a TS80P usb-c soldering iron. It was supposed to arrive yesterday but with the weather and holiday shipping volume it didn’t make it yet. Hopefully it will arrive soon!

Thanks again ralphjy and the element14 community for all the fun blogs, projects, and discussions of 2022. Element14 is definitely the best electronics community on the internet!

RE: Merry Christmas Element14!

beacon_dave — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 12:16:43 GMT

"...I doubt that I'll ever develop a game for it..."

Not so sure about that, you are already only a couple of paddles away from a game of Pong there.
(Is that green thing a ball, or a Brussels sprout though? [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8])

I was tempted by that piggyback display as well this week, but in the end, I stuck with the tried and tested Pimoroni version.

Originally, I was just intending on acquiring a Pico and a SPI DtoA in order to follow along with the new Cornell lectures on YouTube, but somehow that shopping cart rapidly went from just those 2 items to more like 25 items. [emoticon:d6dd260102fd406884fc96b8bc59760b]

Happy holidays