Hello ~commence2897 !

~bartender? Hot chocolate with spices, please! It's rather wet and windy outside ...

Well, I fully agree that a working program is "magic". And I happen to have written down a few lines about that magic elsewhere ... let's see, whether I can find it ... ah, here it is ... now let me translate this into a htttp link as well ... here we go:

gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20221023-wonders-6-programming-controllers.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/ew.srht.site/en/2022/20221023-wonders-6-programming-controllers.gmi

Now, I will readily admit, that programming micro controllers has a considerable entry barrier, because you need quite a bit of stuff (cables! power supply!) and magic programs to make the whole thing come to life. I do have a collection of such controllers about the house, collecting temperatures and similar. Readings are transported (via mqtt) to a database (influx) where another pile of magic dust (grafana) will produce charts rendered by my web browser. This is a very high stack of things. The feeling is fantastic, once the first "dots" show up without you doing anything, and pressing "refresh" adds more dots later. And even my SO likes them charts :)

Cheers!

Ah, the "recent" thing ... well I picked this stuff up recently, and I'm in to process to add small radio modules to the mix. I can transmit, as the spectrum analyzer tells me, but I have not yet succeeded to get "information" across. I'll get there.

hello there! it's very windy outside, isn't it? there's more than a couple of floods where i am.

your lines reminds me of a younger me who'd digitally bound about writing code for this, that and the other - though it's humbling to hear how the technological rituals we practice have changed over time. i grew up typing on a keyboard; your experience of handling tangible chunks of plastic and metal is awe-inspiring to me! there's something beautiful in unifying the digital and the physical.

my friend is invested in their ham radio. i rarely understand what they're saying when they talk about the underlying technology, but fascination always leads me to try to decipher the acronyms they use. i think my interest stems from the same wonder you talk about when i remember that radios detect waves i can't even feel over a distance that would take me time to travel. that's supernatural, and i wish you luck with transferring information!

here's to the hopes that i'll surpass that entry barrier at some point and get my hands clean with something small like an arduino! cheers!

wow this is great!!!! I just sent an email to get more info on the server. I like the simplicity.

magic programming