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@smerp@mastodon.art · 2d ago

I am learning too much about multicast DNS because the native esp32/micropython implementation is bad and they should feel bad about it. This is what I am doing instead of making cool themes!! Fixing crap networking code!!!

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 17, 2026

well it's been a long couple of weeks, and a lot, a LOT, of behind the scenes infrastructure to get to this point, but here is a halo clock serving it's first web content:

it's been weeks and i'm not even writing the web server code! but boy i can tell you my UART multi-channel inter-device transport and RPC code is damn solid. damn solid.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 16, 2026

pondering how to do an in-browser simulation of a halo clock

how about webgl, it would only have to render a scene with 48 (or 60) HDR light sources in-frame, surely that will work just fine ...?

maybe a different approach

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 10, 2026

ok i need to stop and regroup on these clock changes because this is getting too complicated to be fun. i'm taking the afternoon off to pet cats and think about how to make this fun again.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 09, 2026

Still here, still working on the “wifi coprocessor” for the halo clock. Small edge case bug fixed, now it is almost up to the functionality of a v1 clock.

Slaps compiler. There are So Many lines of code in this baby!

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 07, 2026

Size difference between 48 LED and 60 LED halo clocks.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 06, 2026

Shipped out two HALO CLOCKS today.

Still have a couple left from the last batch!

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 05, 2026

HALO CLOCK owners, i am curious, if you could access your clock with a web browser while it was running, what would you want to do? Brainstorming.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 02, 2026

i have just tested telling one microcontroller) which is not online) to update the software on another microcontroller (which is) by fetching a manifest file from a web server and downloading any deltas, one of which was a source file with a new remote procedure command, which was then dynamically loaded into the rpc command list, and then executed. i also told the second device via rpc to reboot, restoring it to a known state.

and that seems pretty cool.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Apr 02, 2026

still working on that halo clock 2 stuff. for those catching up, it will have two esp32 boards, one whose job is "clock" and the other is "network" and i've been making them talk to each other, starting from first principles of serial communication (uart bytes) to unreliable packets (UDP-like) to channelized reliable arbitrary data transport (like sockets but more tuned to embedded devices) to rpc calls, and it's gone quite well.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 31, 2026

on this Trans Day of Visibility I am listening to Octo Octa, a transwoman producer who does upbeat, sparse, classic/retro techno/house with few if any vocals. give her a listen on your favourite platform, won't you?

(please feel free to reply to this post with your own favourite trans musician, so others can read the replies and discover some new and great sounds)

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 30, 2026

I’m gluing the 60 LEDs into a larger clock prototype, HALO 2, and you can see it’s bigger because there’s an original HALO sitting fully inside it.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 19, 2026

with the larger, multi-head 3d printer, i can do larger clocks, and integrate the white reflectors into the black clock body. here's a 60 LED clock, just slightly larger than the usual 48 led clock. (it'll be black, not blue, that's just for visibility)

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 12, 2026

@rjmoerland @dirkhaun thanks kindly!

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 12, 2026

@dirkhaun thanks, I appreciate it!

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 12, 2026

took apart the A1 plotter. it's was just getting kicked and jostled. haven't used it in at least a year. i was doing really well with plotter art for a couple years, then nfts fucked contemporary digital artists over, and then genai fucked over any art that had even a hint of a computer's touch. plus, with wars and late capitalism, no one has money anyway. i'm tired.

i still have the "little" A3 plotter on a table. last time it was used was addressing an envelope with a few prints in it.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 11, 2026

didn't work. the pointillist black filament didn't stick to the build plate very well at 55C. the test i did on the bambu labs a1 mini was better at 65C.

it's science, though. negative results are just as important as positive ones.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 11, 2026

i can see this is not going to work well, from the small piles of filament scattered on the build plate. i have a smooth "cold" plate to try later on which might hold onto the tiny pieces more firmly.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 11, 2026

making a clock face with this, which is 13k line paths. why, i'm not sure. probably to see if it can handle it.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 11, 2026

sure, etsy, here's your 31c for not showing my listing to anyone. seems like a pretty good deal ... for you.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 10, 2026

Well, I did it. This is a HALO clock with an op-art coffee fascia; the design goes right through the plastic, as you can see on the edges.

This combines so many of my favourite things. Op art, coffee, plotter-art, timekeeping...

I will include it in your order for free if you buy a HALO clock and ask for it. First come, first serve.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 10, 2026

the new 3d printer (snapmaker u1 with four printheads) and similarly new 4 reel automatic filament dryer (creality spacepi 4) are connected up via long tubes; the dryer is sitting on an ikea samla bin that serves as the printer's "hat"

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 10, 2026

i did a little test of "embedded" plotter art via 3d printer, this is a variation of that coffee cup artwork as a 10cm / 2mm thick solid plastic drink coaster. the pattern goes all the way through.

the same idea can be extended to halo clock fascia and i'll do a trial print of a similar design tomorrow.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Mar 06, 2026

if you're trans, non-binary or afab and you make edm, electronica, noise, experimental -- any kind of wild/funky/hard/fast music or sounds -- put it online if you can. there's *so many dudes* and it's *so exhausting* trying to wade through "similar artists" to find music by other kinds of folks. the whole electronica genre seems to be like 95% dudes, it's possibly the worst of all art forms. your non cis-male voice is desperately needed.

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@smerp@mastodon.art · Jun 06, 2022

A walk in the woods. Rollerball on A4.

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