From the mail bag…

From the mail bag!

Heya Adafruit folks,

Just wanted to drop a note of “thanks” and “.. oh hot damn.” I’m a software

engineer and don’t usually find myself trying to wrangle the magic pixies

too often, but I had an idea for something very dumb awhile ago, bought a

bunch of random bits that I figured I could cobble together, and sure

enough, I could.

Ya’ll have done a great job at selecting quality odds and ends and have

shaved just enough of the sharp edges off of things that a lot of the tedium

is removed. But not so much trimming that you wind up hamstrung by “what if

we just pretended the filesystem didn’t exist” levels of simplification.

I don’t think I ran into a single bit of confusion with any of the products

you’d designed that couldn’t be resolved in 5seconds with a multi-meter. And

those were just bog standard boring things like “.. but which ground?” I did

find some bugs in a couple opensource gpio/ioctl packages that I spent a few

hours patching, but that’s both my wheelhouse and not in any way related to

your products/designs.

Anyhow, hope the summer finds you well. Was just reflecting on this big dumb

contraption I’ve made and thinking “I’d have never have done this if someone

hadn’t lowered the bar for of entry.” So thanks for that!

Cheers,

Garrett