Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Longer term (probably not for the next release) I'd like to do output channels as well. There's some limited support for outputting to Modbus RTU devices, but support for a broader range of output types might be useful if I ever have a good test platform for experimenting with control automation strategies. I have a theory that manipulating heat settings in a drum roaster is mathematically very similar to the problem of aiming WW2 era anti-aircraft guns. (if true, we can do better than PID)

Getting lots of code written today. I'm adding more hardware support for Typica, specifically Phidgets devices with channels that can use the CurrentInput API. I'm probably not going to finish that today, but I'd like to get that and some other stuff done before the upgraded optical head comes back so I can start logging data from that automatically. Before the next release I'll probably go back and add VoltageInput support now that I have an easy way to test that and maybe DigitalInput?

Today I got a text message referencing a photo of a screen showing a video of me from someone who works with someone I've worked on education projects with who wanted to know if they knew me. Apparently I came across as a cool roasting teacher, but the video also had my cat in the background which I'm pretty sure makes me seem cooler. (at the very least, my cat thinks I'm cool)

I know that's structurally awful. I'm not editing it.

We had a lot of bare faces over the past few days (we were keeping a tally to plan for what kind of disposable mask supply we might need), but now that the mask ordinance is in effect people are wearing their masks and not throwing tantrums. Better late than never, I guess.

Tonight was a 2 slice of cake night.

Affectionate cat is affectionate.

This is the latest cat to start hanging around the house.

Front porch cat is now on the back porch.

There's one of those boxes that tries to sell the local newspaper in front of my shop. I think it only has the front section of a paper from I don't know how many weeks ago for display purposes only. I hope nobody tries to buy that. They'd be disappointed.

Got another order for coffee I roasted today. If the post office hadn't cut their lobby hours I'd've just packed that and dropped it off after work, but since I can't do that it doesn't make sense to bother filling any more orders until Monday.

At some point I'd kind of like to try sticking some screen casting software on the prototype and live stream a roasting shift.

Sent the prototype roast cam back. They're going to put some cooling on it to make it work better and send it back. The mounting holes aren't problematic.

Someone wanted me to send them something by UPS, but the UPS web site didn't want to take my money so I'm spending a couple dollars less and using USPS as usual instead.

Fediverse pro tip: just post cats. Everybody likes cats.

At the end of his battle with the Pah-wraiths, Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko fell into the fire caves and vanished. He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by the prophets to change history for the better. And so, the Sisko finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

Which stage would the CONTACTLESS PICKUP ZONE be in a Sonic the Hedgehog game?

The Internet is made of cats. Sometimes they want to shove your database off the shelf.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/more-than-1000-databases-have-been-nuked-by-mystery-meow-attack/

Updated the shop's web site. Decafs are listed again as is the new coffee from El Salvador.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/