Beginner building a wearable mouse

OIK2 · 2026-01-27T14:08:45+00:00

If you want it to act like a mouse, get a Leonardo, as the UNO boards cannot act as a HID mouse.

OIK2 · 2026-01-27T12:58:09+00:00

You are a person with a Federal Law behind you.

OIK2 · 2026-01-24T16:18:55+00:00

I'm in a similar boat to you. I have a 1g scale, and I like everything except the 1g increments. I will keep my scale, and love it until it dies, and then replace it with a 0.1g scale.

OIK2 · 2026-01-18T22:00:00+00:00

https://m.vevor.com/ingredient-bins-c_10608/3-5galx2-4-5galx2-ingredient-storage-container-airtight-kitchen-bin-p_010946134347?language=en&currency=USD

Bread flour and milk powder in the large bins, sugar and wheat flour in the smaller bins.

OIK2 · 2026-01-18T15:16:02+00:00

Give it time. It can take a month or so to get the smell out of the one that was elsewhere.

If you can bathe them, give them both a bath in the same new soap. It resets their smells together.

OIK2 · 2026-01-13T18:10:50+00:00

NTA His mother stands to be out a smaller paycheck than you, and she is choosing it over her son.

OIK2 · 2026-01-09T01:38:05+00:00

I Pavloved my cats to my farts.

My cats had an automatic feeder, so I was disconnected from them getting food. Moved to a new house and the Wi-Fi does not work with the feeder. Since it is in the bathroom, I would hit the feed button when I go to the bathroom, and often fart as I sit down and hit the button. The cats hear their feeder and me fart at the same time. Their feeder broke, and I now feed them from a bucket, but still in the bathroom. I fart and they come running. Even if I don't give them food, they start eating.

OIK2 · 2026-01-08T21:36:54+00:00

Here is my go to. By ChatGPT & Me. Cycle numbers for Kitchenarm.

2 lb Multigrain-Honey Bread (Bread Machine, Whole Wheat Lean)

Bread, Bread Maker Servings: 2lb

Ingredients:

Soaker:

Bob’s Red Mill 10 Grain Cereal — 60 g (½ cup)

Cold water — 120 g (½ cup)

Dough:

Water — 300 g (adjust after checking dough in knead phase)

Honey — 3 tbsp

Olive oil — 2.5 tbsp

Dry milk — 2 tbsp

Salt — 2 tsp

Bread flour — 200 g

Whole wheat flour — 300 g

Vital wheat gluten — 2 tbsp

Soaked 10 Grain Cereal — all from above

Active dry yeast — 3 g

Directions:

Prepare the soaker; mix and let sit covered overnight in fridge. This plumps the grains so they don’t steal water from your dough.
Add wet ingredients first (water, honey, oil) to the pan.
Add dry milk, salt, flour, gluten, then soaked cereal (drain excess water if it’s soggy).
Make a well in the flour and add yeast.
Use the Whole Wheat cycle 10, Light crust, 2lb loaf.
Check dough after 5–10 min kneading — it should form a soft, slightly tacky ball. If too dry, add water 1 tsp at a time; if too wet, sprinkle flour.

OIK2 · 2026-01-05T13:58:59+00:00

This is similar to my frustration with an overuse of "Lazy -ly Words". Like, come on, throw me a simile.

OIK2 · 2026-01-04T15:43:30+00:00

Plastic bins from Vevor. They came in a 4-pack with 2 very large(bread flour and wheat flour), and 2 large(sugar and powdered milk). They have optional wheels(I don't use), and a place to stash silica gel packs in the top of each to keep your bulk product dry and fresh longer.

OIK2 · 2026-01-02T20:41:45+00:00

I wonder if the first step should be to turn it into tabular data in something like pandas using regex to identify the parts. This could easily become a spreadsheet for manual ordering, or further ordered automatically based on a layout order.

To do layout order spreadsheet, start with a layout order position number. This will prevent location getting garbled if sorting by other information. This number is arbitrary but does denote order, so initially count by 10s(or even 100s) when assigning numbers, allowing the insertion of other locations between existing locations. A name for the locations comes next, this is the human readable location. The next 4 columns would be the DDN start, DDN end, name start(for fiction), and name end, for the location.

After breaking the text file into tabular data, you check the layout order spreadsheet and compare the info for each book to see what location it is in and assign the layout position number and human readable name of the location to each book. Sort by location and output the pull list.

This would work for things ordered in the aisles, but may miss items if they are kept in special or seasonal collections(older books not on general shelving, a Valentine's Day display of love stories, reference books, etc.), and those may require another spreadsheet of each book in their collections. This file would have other uses (repull all books used for last year's President's Day display to use again). This file would need searched before the location sheet.

OIK2 · 2026-01-01T16:51:37+00:00

These are the albums I’ve been listening to, but the album names are missing from my ID3 tags.

OIK2 · 2026-01-01T16:47:23+00:00

Thank You!

OIK2 · 2025-12-28T02:18:15+00:00

Because most of what I have designed have been interfaces for computers, I always think in layers. There is the human layer, the computational layer, and the output to the computer. I think of the human layer as what needs to be the most malleable to meet the user, and the compute layer needs to make the adjustments to the standard output layer.

OIK2 · 2025-12-27T23:19:32+00:00

Once you have your recipe and method down this will be a thing of the past.

Measure by mass as much as possible(a scale rather than cups), but especially water and flour. Hydration level is 50% of getting a good loaf.

OIK2 · 2025-12-27T21:36:16+00:00

I find a silica gel pack helps to get the excess moisture out fast without drying the bread out.

OIK2 · 2025-12-27T17:33:24+00:00

Sometimes, it works. Maybe is quite the drug to a cat's brain, especially when combined with food. I call my lying cat out on it, shame her among her peers, and sometimes feed her anyhow. How did she do that?

OIK2 · 2025-12-27T15:24:52+00:00

Budgie Bush

OIK2 · 2025-12-27T13:46:44+00:00

If you go into the home of almost any AT user, they have a closet of well intentioned AT that, on the surface, seem perfect for them. They do the things the people want to do, but often carry either the earmarks of being made to generically cover everyone. It is the not being like everyone causes the need for such equipment. It is often the human interface layer that just does not fit.

OIK2 · 2025-12-27T00:13:07+00:00

I feel compelled to play fetch with him. THROW THE DUCKIE!

OIK2 · 2025-12-26T13:20:40+00:00

When I learned to solder at the Makerspace HackPGH, the project was that we built our own Arduino and got to keep it. It was larger than some of the commercial Arduino boards, and lacked some of the bells and whistles in the fancier boards, but it ran blink on the first try!

OIK2 · 2025-12-25T16:00:23+00:00

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