ratSprite 🐀 @LazyTechsupport@cybre.space

Hey hey digital lifeforms, infomorphs, nanobot clouds and ambulatory mainframes

Have you processed the track Errors in my Mind by Cursor Miner?

(cw: corruption, disrepair, repetition) 🔁✅

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(courtesy of @unascribed 's template)

#introductions
Hey! I'm Sprite and I'm married to @neverwhere, poly, bi, nonbinary, very dyslexic and my life's currently in stasis after moving from the UK to the US.

I like to pet rats, sleep, cry about robots, coax old tech back to life, play d&d and stay up late breaking computer games

I've got a "problem with authority", credit in a bad PS2 game, worked for the Scottish government, been a network and system admin and I never finished college. My life is a mess.

my hands smell like axle grease and I love it

the bike has LOT of issues, including severe wear on the front shifter, but it was free so I'm not that worried if it needs a few cheap parts

oops, took apart the bike's rear axle to get at the loose gears and heard a *tak tak tak roll* thought it was a ball bearing, but it looks like they're all still in there and there's nothing on the floor so uh

Nev can't speak because she's poorly so she just squeaks and it's adorable, small with hot lemsip wrapped in blankets squeaking for attention 💜

i lied i'm playing metro redux now

yes thank you i do want to use node.js to control a USB periph...

what the FUCK were you thinking? NO

so next step for the disney portal is to see if I'm even sending the right commands. I have a feeling I'm sending the wrong LED controls because my maths was off, so they're wrong but not wrong enough to just not work.
going to have to run through the known lego commands to see how many of them apply to this revision of the hardware and check for syntax differences too

and because all that sounds like hard work, I'm going to play with the spyro one instead for a bit

so the most basic "change colours" command seems to have issues on the disney pad by always crashing it, but converting the more complicated "read a tag and toggle an LED" code it works and a precompied test binary does too (that I can't get to compile, yay) so uh, human error?

saying that, the lego portal is a LOT faster at reading tags (it can keep up with my phone yelling in NFC mode) while this one only updates once a second and returns no actual tag data atm, just presence data

Fun activation packet facts:
disney's is: (c) Disney 2013
lego's is: (c) LEGO 2014

the spyro portal is much simpler:
[0x41, 0x01] an ascii A followed by, I think, the pad ID
to reset it:
0x52 (ascii R)