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and now it's time for zZz

I did a bigass writeup on my #tamafoxi!
https://pixie.garden/~/Thingies/tamafoxi

I have learned from my misstake and am now typing it in vscode first, routinely saving as I always do

im a fucking idiot. started typing a blog about the tamafoxi, hit ctrl+r and all progress gone

The RLE string looks something like this: "70b5a3b"
the decoding function then goes through the string, character by character. If it's a number, it needs to increment it's count, if it sees a letter, it will expand it to current count times that letter. I can either directly draw current count pixels, or store the result as an expanded string with lots of a's and b's, and draw it after the decode.

The RLE implementation I found online keeps the count as a string like this:
count = ''
if current is a number:
count += current number (concatinate as a string)
else:
parse count as an integer

I did a more efficient implementation with just arithmetic, because strings are expensive.
if current is a number:
count = count*10 + current number

as seen from the speedtest, this is quite a bit faster

So I did some speedtests for my image formats.
Raw PNG as bytestrings is definitely the fastest by far, but takes a lot of space.
Then there's various ways of decoding my run-length-encoded strings, by keeping the character counter as an integer or as a string. (more explanation in replied toot with cw)

@goat I am glad to have given you this {terrible, awesome} idea (well, the drone part)

@grufwub@notbird.site good luck!

@grufwub@notbird.site @goat will do! We'll probably branch off the badge.team platform, just like with my tamafoxi, it's a great base for ESP32 stufd

@grufwub@notbird.site @goat [three letter acronym with an H]2021 doesn't really roll of the tongue :P
but it was decided last week, with a ig majority, that we'll keep the tradition of changing the name

@goat @grufwub@notbird.site nothing yet, the SHA2021 orga kickoff meeting was last week, so all we have so far is the module to test stuff with

@grufwub@notbird.site @goat for any multiple of 2 times it gets even more secure

@goat @grufwub@notbird.site we're going to use similar modules without the screen for tracking golfcarts and other logistics stuff around SHA2021

@goat @grufwub@notbird.site just ROT13 it a few times, should be secure

@goat HONK

@lowpolybrain it seems the Dutch post (PostNL) can ship there just fine, prices will depend a lot on if it fits in an envelope and weight, around 5 euros to worst case 18.50

@lowpolybrain I'll have to check the rates for wherever you are, it'll probably fit in a padded envelope and shouldn't be too expensive

open hardware and free software, the artist isn't sure about the sprites license but I'm hoping she agrees to CC-SA