You those software projects that have no defined scope, budget, or timeline? Yet somehow land on your desk?
For those times, I built a Lemmy bot that does an I Ching divination (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/I_Ching) using a hardware random number generator.
It doesn’t help, but it makes me feel better.
If it would make you feel better too, you can use it too by sending a DM to @[email protected].
The message can’t be length zero. You should not consider the messaging secure :D
It also may break, bug out, catch on fire, get unplugged, or get overloaded with requests. If none of those things happen, you’ll get a response in a couple of minutes.
It’s also literally build from scrap, and is sitting precariously on the edge of my desk in Vietnam. Still, it’s the state-of-the-art in software consulting!
Is that a SAD lamp?
To be honest, it’s an accidental lamp. I didn’t have many free GPIO pins on that ESP32 development board, so I needed to push some of the entropy bits though pins that were also assigned to an RGB LED.
The flashing light was giving me a headache, so I put a diffuser over it.
It flashes different colors wildly. Because of the nature of the underlying signal and it’s varying frequency, this looks pretty cool if you put a rolling-shutter camera (like on a smartphone) really close to it.