I spend dozens and dozens of unpaid hours a month in my free time developing open source hardware and software and give the schematics away for free. That dedicated enough for you? You have no idea what goes on in the personal lives of each and every member of a forum, and you’re painting us all with a broad brush right now.
I encourage others to reply to this comment on what it is they contribute to their cause. Because I’d be interested to hear that. On the Internet, we’re just words on a screen that are easily categorized onto groups of people. But people are individuals, everybody has a story.
I live within my means, avoiding the capitalist loop/profit printer of debt. I donate to a number of local charities working to feed, clothe, and house those in need. I volunteer my labor occasionally to various organizations. I advocate against car centric infrastructure and improved public transit in my local government. I offer free tech repairs to people, and if I have a needed part laying around I just provide it free. Before my car died I participated in a service to give people rides to the store or wherever.
No, I’m not changing the world, but I’m living my life in a sustainable way that I feel serves others and I find that fulfilling.
I have a completed project up on my Tindie page in my profile, it’s an ESP32 based input/output control board powered by PoE that was designed for ESPHome software.
Lately I’ve been working on a fully featured modern MP3 player with tiny OLED screen the size of a credit card. I’ve been frustrated with every project on the web that has anything to do with playing MP3s, they all kinda suck. So I’m making sort of a “core” base firmware that will include all the basics, like browsing for a file to play, creating/editing playlists, non-blocking interrupt driven playback, internet streaming, and an alarm clock. Others would then be able to extend the functionally of this core system by just directly using its documented libraries and classes. It’s all based around an ESP8266 and the VS1053 decoder chip.
I spend dozens and dozens of unpaid hours a month in my free time developing open source hardware and software and give the schematics away for free. That dedicated enough for you? You have no idea what goes on in the personal lives of each and every member of a forum, and you’re painting us all with a broad brush right now.
I encourage others to reply to this comment on what it is they contribute to their cause. Because I’d be interested to hear that. On the Internet, we’re just words on a screen that are easily categorized onto groups of people. But people are individuals, everybody has a story.
I live within my means, avoiding the capitalist loop/profit printer of debt. I donate to a number of local charities working to feed, clothe, and house those in need. I volunteer my labor occasionally to various organizations. I advocate against car centric infrastructure and improved public transit in my local government. I offer free tech repairs to people, and if I have a needed part laying around I just provide it free. Before my car died I participated in a service to give people rides to the store or wherever.
No, I’m not changing the world, but I’m living my life in a sustainable way that I feel serves others and I find that fulfilling.
Hey! Another open source developer. What are some things you’ve been working on?
I have a completed project up on my Tindie page in my profile, it’s an ESP32 based input/output control board powered by PoE that was designed for ESPHome software.
Lately I’ve been working on a fully featured modern MP3 player with tiny OLED screen the size of a credit card. I’ve been frustrated with every project on the web that has anything to do with playing MP3s, they all kinda suck. So I’m making sort of a “core” base firmware that will include all the basics, like browsing for a file to play, creating/editing playlists, non-blocking interrupt driven playback, internet streaming, and an alarm clock. Others would then be able to extend the functionally of this core system by just directly using its documented libraries and classes. It’s all based around an ESP8266 and the VS1053 decoder chip.
Guess somebody feels a little called out :(((
So what do you do?
They pick their nose and cry when they hear their farts
well deserved L ratio