Busy hands | Disquiet mind

Some time ago I got myself an Adafruit LED Glasses Starter Kit. But other than turning it on and running the example code I hadn't done much with it. Then with the return of Congress I, of course, wanted all the LEDs, so I dug it out. First things first, how am I going to wear this?

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Front panel and driver attached to my glasses
Photo by chebe

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The BYO Keyboard kit I backed on kickstarter arrived. Time for some soldering.

How about 19 minutes of unedited real-time soldering, with a camera that is struggling to maintain continuous auto-focus with a pancake lens? There's some nice, relaxing music. On repeat. It's a chill time. (Okay, I didn't realise the camera was wobbling so much. It's my very first time. Lots to learn.)

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But after soldering we have to program it. It's Circuit Python, which means updating the version on the device with the newest one for your board (ItsyBitsy M0), by double-pressing the Reset button and dragging the file onto the disk. And then downloading the libraries to match that version. Extracting the zip, and drag-dropping the libraries you need onto the disk. (More on the libraries here.) One day I'll remember all that without looking it up.

I went for the keypresses demo script, so now I'm sending lost 1s-6s into my computer. Success!

BYO Keyboard kit, with Media keycaps, soldered and programmed
Photo by chebe