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so happy this is finally coming to fruition.
pcb designs finalized
got a sponsorship of pcbs from osh park (hopefully)
maybe got a 25% cut on costs on digikey parts
spent $215 today on so many things for it
figured out a cool way to “compress” images with convolutions (ml)
made a grafana dashboard where we can track everything that should be coming from the payload
reached out to carolina (biology supply company) in hopes of sponsorship; no response quite yet
(rant incoming)
something that's becoming so surreal to me is that a project of mine could actually be going to space (well, 3/8th the way there.) for the past couple months, I've been working on a project with a friend of mine as a part of a community run hack club event: design, engineer, and make real a payload for a high altitude balloon, and you'll get sponsored to make that project and go to Boston. there's been so many cool opportunities that I've been introduced to as a part of hack club. while it certainly sometimes seems a bit cultish, the things I would not know today would be crazy to me. I've learned how to make hardware, learn new programming languages, I've met new people. being able to run a biology experiment 100k ft up (30 km for my non-american friends) is absolutely wild to me as a teenager, being barely halfway through high school. I guess it really just shows where I may be going in my future, but also that I have no clue. at this point, there's a plethora of options for my future. programming? absolutely! electrical engineering? you bet. networking? heck yeah! creative writing? sign my up. photography is my creative outlet. I want to do it all, but life is too short to stick to one thing. or is it? i have no clue. maybe i can blend them all? I feel getting caught up in having a job, college applications (eventually) or just exhaustion is going to make me choose eventually. I feel like I'm standing at the edge of a massive buffet but everyone is just making me take one plate. but I want to do everything! and doing this space thing, this crazy, real tangible project, just makes that feeling stronger. there's so many things I'm exploring with it; biology, embedded development, hardware and PCB design, data science. like, if I can help build something that goes 100k ft up as a high schooler, what are the actual limits? and if there aren't hard limits on what I can do, why should there be limits on what I can be or what I care about? the thought of all those paths is exhilarating, but it's also genuinely kinda overwhelming. like, deep-breath overwhelming. how do you even start deciding when every direction looks fascinating? I guess… I guess I just keep doing the cool stuff that pops up, like this hack club project, and hope the path gets clearer? or maybe just accept that the path is going to be a really, really winding one.
as cool as it is seeing the new elected pope being American, it's very disappointing that he's transphobic (among many other issues).
the whole craze is 100 men vs 1 gorilla but the real fight is 3k billionaires against the other 8 billion of us on earth
(rant incoming)
something that's becoming so surreal to me is that a project of mine could actually be going to space (well, 3/8th the way there.) for the past couple months, I've been working on a project with a friend of mine as a part of a community run hack club event: design, engineer, and make real a payload for a high altitude balloon, and you'll get sponsored to make that project and go to Boston. there's been so many cool opportunities that I've been introduced to as a part of hack club. while it certainly sometimes seems a bit cultish, the things I would not know today would be crazy to me. I've learned how to make hardware, learn new programming languages, I've met new people. being able to run a biology experiment 100k ft up (30 km for my non-american friends) is absolutely wild to me as a teenager, being barely halfway through high school. I guess it really just shows where I may be going in my future, but also that I have no clue. at this point, there's a plethora of options for my future. programming? absolutely! electrical engineering? you bet. networking? heck yeah! creative writing? sign my up. photography is my creative outlet. I want to do it all, but life is too short to stick to one thing. or is it? i have no clue. maybe i can blend them all? I feel getting caught up in having a job, college applications (eventually) or just exhaustion is going to make me choose eventually. I feel like I'm standing at the edge of a massive buffet but everyone is just making me take one plate. but I want to do everything! and doing this space thing, this crazy, real tangible project, just makes that feeling stronger. there's so many things I'm exploring with it; biology, embedded development, hardware and PCB design, data science. like, if I can help build something that goes 100k ft up as a high schooler, what are the actual limits? and if there aren't hard limits on what I can do, why should there be limits on what I can be or what I care about? the thought of all those paths is exhilarating, but it's also genuinely kinda overwhelming. like, deep-breath overwhelming. how do you even start deciding when every direction looks fascinating? I guess… I guess I just keep doing the cool stuff that pops up, like this hack club project, and hope the path gets clearer? or maybe just accept that the path is going to be a really, really winding one.
I'm happy to announce that i have permanently quit using certain conventional languages, including but not limited to go, python, lua, bash, and more. from now on, i'll be writing all of my projects in PHP. SparkShell, along with everything else I've developed, will be rewritten to conform to the new standards. long live PHP!
i got a bit bored so i decided to draft a whole hack club ysws (you ship we ship) based around making cool things with fuse (filesystem in usespace). the website is written completely in golang, and emulates a terminal/shell. it’s all compiled to wasm so it runs quite well in browsers.
elon musk proposed giving everyone in the US $5,000 as a result of DOGE. DOGE has supposedly saved about $16 billion, but if you do the math, he's only saved about $2 billion (source: NPR... keep in mind that this not a lot compared to the $6.5 trillion the US gov spends each year). and then if you calculate everyone who would be eligible for this money, that equates to avoid $1,200,000,000,000 (240 million people * $5,000). now how's that for savings/government efficiency!
wasn’t too bad, honestly. i don’t have a whole lot to say, besides that they let me listen to hawaii part ii during it.
a bill has been introduced in the US for when we gain greenland; the point of it is to rename it to the ‘red white and blue land.’ what a joke.
sometimes i feel embarrassed to be an American.