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An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021)
What is IRC? IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. Invented in the late 1980s, it's one of the oldest and most popular realtime chat protocols.
Profiling the code again showed that we were now spending most of our time in the OLED display driver, turning the bits in the backing store into bytes that could be pushed to the screen. I did some simple math to translate wheel revolutions / ticks into distance pushed / area mown, and added a screen mode for it. In this session, I'm working on broadcasting status updates to IRC, so I want to be able to spin the wheel to simulate me pushing the mower around the yard.
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