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I made myself a pixel font for composite (well, monochrome) video output on an RP2040:

https://github.com/PhobGCC/PhobGCC-SW/blob/main/PhobGCC/rp20...

(search for 1 to see letterforms)

The letters are 8x15 and verticals are 2 pixels wide to work better on older CRT televisions with less-sophisticated chroma filtering on their composite inputs.

I explicitly tried to avoid locking into 45 degree diagonals...

My only question now is, how do I turn this font into something I can use on a computer? I couldn't figure it out the last time I tried.


A few different resources with various ways to go about it, one of which may be near what you were hoping for:

FontStruct: https://fontstruct.com/

Calligraphr: https://www.calligraphr.com/en/

Kreative Korp: https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/index.shtml#rela...

Glyphs: https://glyphsapp.com/learn/pixelfont

PixelForge: https://www.pixel-forge.com/


I made PixelForge [0] a while ago just for creating pixel fonts and being able to export to TTF. I had it semi-abandoned for a few years, but I'm about to release a new version in the next few days! [1]

[0] https://www.pixel-forge.com/

[1] https://itch.io/t/6384009/new-update-soon


Quite impressive [1]. Did you base it on a specific font, or did you just draw it however you felt like?

[1] https://imgur.com/a/0jcNGHv


I did it with no reference to other fonts, just to my own tastes. It took a bit of iteration to get letter centering on the lower cases to work well but I think it's in a good place.

You can see an older version ("a" has been revised to better center the letter) in action on a monochrome CRT here: https://github.com/PhobGCC/PhobGCC-doc/blob/main/For_Users/P...


It's an organization that is effective as an opposition party of sorts.

Simplex methods can handle those tough situations, though.

Simplex is not applicable. Simplex only minimises a linear function (f(x)=c'x) under linear inequality constraints (Ax≤b). The minimisation problem here is unconstrained, but (very) non-linear.

I guess I wasn't being precise, I meant Nelder-Mead.

Or coöp if you want to be fancy.

It's generally inconsistent. The first sentence is written, "A co-op is an economic system built on the simple idea that coordinating the economic activity..."

Co-op is correct here, but not in the title (Coop). Probably personal taste, but I'd also like to see hyphentation for "co-ordinating", "co-operate" and "co-ordinator" as well.

Then I noticed the em-dashes, so perhaps I'm reading the machine's work anyway.


If you can put something in it it doesn't count as crumple zone and the car has to be engineered with a separate crumple zone anyway.

Collapsing trunks have been a thing since the 90s.

There's no regulatory requirement for crumple zones. There's regulatory requirements for performance. The cheapest/easiest way to meet these is crumple zones.

Your luggage and golf clubs aren't gonna do squat in a collision. The regulators don't care that about the one in a million chance that someone gets into an accident a) where crumple zones matter b) while hauling objects so solid they don't just round to "no effect" because they have bigger fish to fry and if you create a "standard loading" for the test the OEMs will simply design to that and basically create a bunch of work and expense for marginal benefit.


Yeah, but not many people have the habit of hauling solid I-beams of steel in their "frunks".

I don't really believe the average groceries load will add that much rigidity to this space as deny its function as a crumple zone.


What has changed is that the US's failure in Iran has directly impacted many of its former allies all at once, and the current administration clearly shows that it doesn't care about them at all.

This lack of consideration will lead to significantly less favorable trading for all of the businesses you listed, regardless of their current prowess.


Replace Iran with Iraq and this was all true 25 years ago. And that was an actual failure.

Fundamentally nothing has changed about the world or the relationship between the US and its allies. Once Trump is replaced by someone closer to European social values and less of an asshole the temperature will change. Just like it did from Bush to Obama.


Can you really look yourself in the mirror and say with a straight face that fundamentally nothing has changed about the relationship between the US and its allies? Do you really think Europeans will be quick to forgive the wrongs of this administration? They’ve lost faith in our political system and will, rightfully so, do everything in their power to disentangle with us. The problem with your theory is that they know even if Trump is replaced by someone closer to European social values, our electorate could just as easily completely reverse course in 4 years. It literally already happened. Bush never threatened to annex European territory with military force as far as I can tell. But I understand why in these chaotic times you’d want to gravitate towards hopeful fictions.

Yes. Nothing fundamentally has changed about the US/Europe relationship for 80 years. Trump being a royal prick doesn't mean his message is fundamentally different than what any other president would send. If the US elects Kamala, for example, things quiet down and go back to normal almost immediately.

If you buy a ChaDeMo Leaf you do so knowing that it will likely never go more than a hundred miles from home.

You hook it up to the network to use monitoring features like a remote camera view to make sure your print is going smoothly.

SD cards work but it's extremely less convenient than just printing straight from the slicer.

You can use any slicer you want but Bambu wants only their slicer to directly connect.

CLI slicing is not something you want in general. Visual confirmation of the toolpaths is very important to making prints as successful as possible.


> You can use any slicer you want but Bambu > wants only their slicer to directly connect.

Here it looks like you can connect Orca?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMtkIGf8xOs&t=240s


Only on LAN mode, which disables remote monitoring.


Could it be that this is a reasonable protection so that the average user is not being spied on via cameras in the printers when their computer gets compromised?

I guess you can do remote monitoring via Orca when you set the printer to developer mode?


New development: Louis Rossman is rehosting the code and dares Bambu to sue him.


I put a blanket on in the winter. In the summer it's not really necessary, the chamber can hit 70c which triggers a cool-down.


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