Message from @shadowedROM

Discord ID: 262967450033717249


2016-12-26 15:32:28 UTC  

Have you played with esp32 yt

2016-12-26 15:32:54 UTC  

Seems a little choked up in supply?

2016-12-26 15:32:59 UTC  

I'm not paying 20 bucks for the development boards

2016-12-26 15:33:19 UTC  

Yeah I'm thinking the price would drop eventually

2016-12-26 15:33:49 UTC  

Or maybe they're trying to recoup the costs of the laowais they hired

2016-12-26 15:34:27 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189466684938125312/262966367794364416/20161117_150947_HDR.jpg

2016-12-26 15:34:38 UTC  

found a picture

2016-12-26 15:34:54 UTC  

meanwhile im playing with a bbc microbit

2016-12-26 15:35:08 UTC  

it sent tcp packets to a socket that acted as a virtual serial port

2016-12-26 15:35:19 UTC  

The same form factor with some sort of gsm chip baked in along with upstream vendor support could potentially change the world

2016-12-26 15:35:29 UTC  

and then a python app read from the serial and plotted the data

2016-12-26 15:35:32 UTC  

really fun

2016-12-26 15:35:51 UTC  

Cool 😃

2016-12-26 15:36:25 UTC  

I still have like 10 esp8266 12E

2016-12-26 15:36:36 UTC  

and i don't know what to do with them..

2016-12-26 15:37:27 UTC  

If you've never played with rockets before, get one (they're cheap) and you can use them as live data loggers

2016-12-26 15:37:53 UTC  

what kind of rocket?

2016-12-26 15:37:59 UTC  

are the expensive?

2016-12-26 15:38:10 UTC  

they*

2016-12-26 15:38:17 UTC  

Estes; nah like $20-30 for a kit

2016-12-26 15:38:45 UTC  

With a pad and a janky electric igniter

2016-12-26 15:38:53 UTC  

oh boy

2016-12-26 15:39:12 UTC  

how do you retrieve it after it enters orbit

2016-12-26 15:39:51 UTC  

They don't go up that high, only thousand or two feet

2016-12-26 15:39:56 UTC  

yea was just jokin

2016-12-26 15:40:01 UTC  

if they enter orbit for 20$ Elon Musk would be broke

2016-12-26 15:40:06 UTC  

lol

2016-12-26 15:40:37 UTC  

A diy engine could be good though

2016-12-26 15:40:55 UTC  

A single bag of sugar is fuel for days

2016-12-26 15:41:00 UTC  

or some balloons with helium

2016-12-26 15:41:25 UTC  

Probably better

2016-12-26 15:42:27 UTC  

Yeah, maybe i'll tie an esp8266 to a balloon or something

2016-12-26 15:42:41 UTC  

powered by a housefire 18650 of corse

2016-12-26 15:42:52 UTC  

course *

2016-12-26 15:43:15 UTC  

A tiny 220mAh lipo is fine too

2016-12-26 15:43:21 UTC  

Lighter

2016-12-26 15:43:37 UTC  

yeah, i was kidding

2016-12-26 15:43:52 UTC  

I don't understand humor apparently

2016-12-26 15:44:00 UTC  

was thinking more of a esp powered battery grenade

2016-12-26 15:44:10 UTC  

Ok I'm off to eat breakfast laters

2016-12-26 15:44:17 UTC  

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