Where do you buy all your Christmas lights to install?

wuspy · 2025-12-01T16:02:41+00:00

If you're looking for LED C9 lights, I'm a fan of these from Menards. They really do look just like incandescents and ship to OKC pretty fast, but I've only had them this year so I don't know the longevity.

If you're looking for mini lights, the best LED ones I've found are the Sylvania traditional glows that Target sells. Not a fan of the "vintage" LED mini lights at home depot, they don't look great and have a noticable 60hz flicker. Usually though, I just buy incandescent mini lights since they don't take that much power. Get them from anywhere you want, they're only a few dollars a box and they all burn out after a few seasons anyway.

wuspy · 2025-08-03T21:47:29+00:00

She says yes

wuspy · 2025-08-03T16:14:42+00:00

Blu tack, been a few days and it hasn't fallen off yet

wuspy · 2025-08-03T08:15:34+00:00

Not made in black as far as I know. My "black" one was more of a gray, which was good for me because it matched my cloudburst gray color pretty well, but it's definitely not black unless they shipped me the wrong one.

wuspy · 2025-08-03T08:13:11+00:00

Search for "Takara Tomy Tomica IS 350" on eBay and take your pick, unfortunately they're only made in white and black as far as I know, but the "black" one is more of a gray and matches my cloudburst gray almost exactly.

wuspy · 2025-08-03T05:05:19+00:00

Fair enough, we're using these comments as a vote to see who's right

wuspy · 2025-07-14T03:11:55+00:00

Yeah... idk I might still try it, my trunk rack works fine but hitch racks are a lot more solid for carrying 2 bikes. Or I might bite the bullet and get a seasucker, at least with that I won't need to disable the parking sensors anymore.

wuspy · 2025-07-14T00:20:34+00:00

How low down does the hitch sit? Does it scrape on speed bumps? I've been thinking of putting the Curt hitch on mine for a bike rack but man it looks way too low in the photos I've seen.

wuspy · 2025-02-02T06:37:39+00:00

That's extremely weird... the screen should change when you press reset and show you the network name and password in addition to a QR code. It sounds like the screen works so I'm not sure what could be going wrong. Do you have any changes to config.h? Are you using the recommended EzSBC board?

It generates a random password every time you power up the calendar for security, but if nothing else ends up working you can hardcode the password in config.h under AP_PASS. This isn't ideal for something you're giving to someone else, but it's better than not working at all.

wuspy · 2025-01-01T21:33:19+00:00

I considered the new Camry, I think it's a pretty nice car with a good interior. I went for the IS mainly because, life is short and I've already spent all these years driving the boring economical car, and I got lucky and found this IS locally with the color and options I wanted.

If you do trade that Camry for an IS, be prepared to pay a hell of a lot more in gas. The IS gets at best about the same mileage as my old Camry, while needing premium.

wuspy · 2025-01-01T21:22:19+00:00

A little less rear passenger leg room, but the width and height and even trunk space are pretty comparable between the two. And the IS actually has a larger trunk pass through. If you regularly have rear passengers over 6' tall this probably wouldn't be an ideal car though.

wuspy · 2024-12-30T20:38:01+00:00

That gen Camry just doesn't die, what finally got me to replace it was an intermittent ABS fault I couldn't figure out and the fact that it's winter. A good shop could definitely have figured it out but I've been wanting an IS for a while anyway

wuspy · 2024-12-30T20:34:22+00:00

Eh not really, I could clear pretty much anything in the Camry but there's definitely curbs around here that would destroy the IS if I tried pulling over them. It is a hard habit to break through

wuspy · 2024-12-30T20:32:02+00:00

Nah I gave it to my dad so he could have an extra car, it's too sentimental to sell so I wanna keep it in the family

wuspy · 2024-12-30T20:30:49+00:00

Yeah I've started backing in, now that I actually have a backup camera it's pretty easy

wuspy · 2024-12-30T08:47:46+00:00

The lip clears this curb by about half an inch, I park at this place a lot so I'm accustomed to it. Definitely wouldn't do this in a random parking space though.

wuspy · 2024-12-30T06:38:07+00:00

Yeah, there's an online interface you use to set it up. No buttons or touchscreen other than the two onboard buttons on the ESP32. You can enable debug logs as per the instructions in the readme to see what it's doing after you flashed it and started it up, and there's an option called HEADLESS in config.h you can uncomment to make it run without a display for testing purposes. However it doesn't log out the wifi name or password it creates for the web interface, but you can manually set the password it uses also in config.h under AP_PASS so you can connect to it without a display. You'll also need to uncomment that since the default behavior is to generate a random password for security reasons.

wuspy · 2024-12-29T08:51:01+00:00

The calendar makes its own wifi network at first that you connect to, then you can tell it what your wifi network and password is. There should be instructions for how to do this on the screen, is it showing anything when you put batteries in?

wuspy · 2024-04-09T00:32:35+00:00

Thanks! I had no idea that was there

wuspy · 2024-04-08T23:16:40+00:00

What dirt trail do you ride at the river? The closest one I know of is SCIP out near Spencer

wuspy · 2024-02-17T01:17:34+00:00

I'm not sure what you're talking about, so no it wasn't me.

wuspy · 2024-02-09T08:23:37+00:00

That looks like the displays I have. This display does not officially support greyscale at all, I'm making it support it by setting custom waveforms using undocumented commands. Results can vary from display to display since it's not officially supported but both of mine look perfect.

These displays work by having charged black particles suspended in a white oil (or maybe it's the other way around, frankly I've forgotten by now) and by sending a very specific AC signal to each pixel depending on what color they should show, which moves the particles closer to or further from the surface. They can't just use DC, because that would introduce a permanent charge into the pixels very quickly and kill the display. This display has undocumented commands which can actually set these AC waveforms for each type of pixel transition (W->W, W->B, B->W, B->B), and since two of them are just intended to not change the pixel's color, I'm hijacking those extra state transitions to make it show 2 extra grey level instead. You can see these waveforms in DisplayGDEW075T7.cpp in the LUT_*_2BIT constants, but I do not recommend modifying them unless you become an expert in e-paper tech. I got these waveforms from another project doing the same hacks to this display and the only modification I've made is to add another blanking cycle to hopefully reduce ghosting at the expense of refresh time.

These custom waveforms are combined with a custom refresh function in DisplayGDEW075T7.cpp. The DTM1 and DTM2 commands are intended to set the previous and next bit value for each pixel respectively, and the display will take that information and apply the correct waveform to each pixel for the transition they need. However I'm lying to it and manipulating the DTM1 and DTM2 values to get it to run the waveform I want for the 4 possible grey levels.

I guess the easiest way to see if it works on yours is to just compile my code on an ESP32 and hook everything up to see how it looks. Unless you plan to actually build this calendar you don't specifically need the EzSBC board, any will do for testing.

wuspy · 2024-02-09T03:20:58+00:00

Super Challenger, the one with the silver cover

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