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Programming a CH32v003 with light
A comedic example, parked nicely on the thinnest wedge of the venn diagram, is the HamFurs – people who do amateur radio while wearing fur suits. While it isn't my cup of tea, I love that such a group exists.
That might sound a bit dull, given the existence of infrared remotes, and the ubiquitiy of optical fibres, but the aim with nanowave is non-line-of-sight communication over many miles via cloud bounce. I considered a hall sensor, which could be very small, responding perhaps to a magnet embedded in another bit of jewellery, but at the end of the project I felt like the best direction to go in would probably be an infrared receiver. Alternatively, we could write a proper bootloader that replaces the whole flash memory, but then we run the risk of partial or failed updates leaving the thing in a non-working state.
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