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Welcome to March.
I'm doing ~30 this month, because it's not like March was busy enough already.
I'm building a little rotary-encoder-to-USB-MIDI device because I actually want one and I don't feel I should buy one when I have all of the parts on hand. So far the software part has done suspiciously well; almost to the point that it feels like it might be a little trivial for a 30 day project? But also I've been able to sink much of the day into it, as I was off work. We'll see. I might start laying out a PCB for it while I finish the software because I am feeling pretty confident that the handware part is proven.
I also threw NetBSD on one of the junk Chromebooks. I have emwm on there and it's okay. Not a lot of internal storage in the Chromebook, but it can take an SD card, at least. Definitely a light-work machine. I don't really know what I'm doing, but sometimes I just do things.
Also, this isn't to do with projects or computers but -- I picked up my first set of progressive lenses (called varifocals elsewhere) and they are a game changer. I will no longer be sat with my distance glasses hanging off my lip while I look at something up-close.