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To care for, honour, and respect the creation, we need to #StopAdani
Elizabeth and I attended the #StopAdani climate crisis rally outside the Federal Parliament this morning. The crowd present was estimated at around 5,000 people. There were people from churches, schoolchildren, union members, as well as members of many community organisations and climate change action groups participating.
Author Richard Flanagan addressed the crowd in his inimitable poetic manner, marking the issues and telling the truth:
"Jabbering 'jobs, jobs, jobs' in a hi-vis shirt does not make you a leader"
"The Franklin was more than a river. Adani is more than a mine."
"Was there hope with the Franklin!? Yes, there was. Is there hope with Adani? Yes, there is!"
Two young female school-age climate strikers stirred the crowd with pointed rhetoric and a call to action. "Change is never implemented by the oppressors. Change must always be demanded by the oppressed."
Other speakers from various organisations urged the large crowd to hold fast, stand firm, and work for change. "We are on the right side of history. We will Stop Adani."
Adrian Burragubba, an elder of the Wangan and Jagalingou people of the Galilee Basin in central western Queensland, reminded the crowd that Adani does not have the consent of the First People of the area, whose ancestral lands, waters and culture would be destroyed by the mime if it went ahead.
Paul Kelly sang two song, including "My island home", and then Bob Brown brought the rally to a climax with his clarion call: "There will be no divine intervention. The onus is on us. And we will take it." He noted that there was "a bigger crowd here today, than Bill Shorten will have in Brisbane, than Scott Morrison will have, whenever he has his campaign launch." Popular opinion is clearly against the development of this mine.
Why is it important to protest against this mine, and to petition our leaders to ensure that the Adani mine and associated works do not go ahead?
The Great Barrier Reef. The mine will see ships travelling through this unique World Heritage Area each year, risking ship groundings, coal and oil spills; and it requires further dredging within the World Heritage Area causing water contamination, destruction of dugong habitat, impacts on Green and Flatback turtle nests, and more.
The Great Artesian Basin is our greatest inland water resource, covering 22% of the Australian continent. Putting control of all that land, and water, into the hands of a foreign commercial enterprise, is foolhardy. The mine will take at least 270 billion litres of groundwater over the life of the mine; put aquifers of the Basin at risk; and dump mine polluted wastewater into the Carmichael River.
It will threaten ancient springs and 160 wetlands that provide permanent water during drought, and leave behind 6 unfilled coal pits that will drain millions of litres of groundwater, forever. Adani's associated water licence allows unlimited access to groundwater for 60 years for free. Putting control of all that land, and water, into the hands of a foreign commercial enterprise, is foolhardy.
The Great Coal Swindle. Pollution from burning coal is the single biggest contributor to dangerous global warming, threatening our way of life. In Australia, 'black lung' disease has recently re-emerged among coal miners, with at least 19 workers in Qld identified with the disease. The coal from the Carmichael mine will be burnt in India where 115,000 people die from coal pollution every year. Developing renewable energy is more responsible for the environment and more energising for the economy.
The Great Employment Myth. There are 69,000 tourism jobs related to the Great Barrier Reef, which rely on a healthy Reef. There are thousands of farming jobs in the inland areas under threat. The Adani mine and associated works will pollute, despoil, and degrade both the land area and the associated offshore seas, impacting hugely on the Reef. Adani claims the mine will bring employment opportunities to the region, but in reality there will be far fewer jobs if the mine goes ahead. The mine will decimate local employment opportunities.
The Great Commercial Swindle. Adani companies are under investigation for tax evasion, corruption, fraud, and money laundering. Nine of the 20 Adani subsidiaries registered in Australia are ultimately owned by an entity registered in the infamous Cayman Islands tax haven. That is beyond the regulatory reach of the Australian Government.
Adani Group companies have an appalling environmental track record with a documented history of destroying the environments and livelihoods of traditional communities in India, and failure to comply with regulations. They will do the same in Australia if the mine goes ahead.
There are other reasons—environmental, economic, political—that mean we should not go ahead with the mine.
And, for me, there is a fundamental theological principle undergirding this issue: God's good creation is in our hands; we are called to act responsibly, to care for, honour, and respect that creation. That means that we act to lessen our carbon footprint, restructure our energy infrastructure to grow renewable sources, and refresh our national policies so that we prioritise the planet over personal preferences.
The Uniting Church has affirmed, "We seek the flourishing of the whole of God's Creation and all its creatures. We act to renew the earth from the damage done and stand in solidarity with people most impacted by human induced climate change. Government, churches, businesses and the wider community work together for a sustainable future." (See https://uniting.church/visionstatement2019/)
The Church has issued a Vision Statement which sets out the following desired Key Actions:
1. A national climate policy that drives down greenhouse gas pollution, including no new coal or gas mining in Australia and investment in renewable energy.
2. Just and sustainable transition for communities currently dependent on fossil fuel industries for employment, towards more environmentally sustainable sources of income.
3. Equitable access to renewables for all Australians.
4. Policies which support people and nations that are most vulnerable to climate change.
There is No Planet B. We have no choice but to #StopAdani.
See also https://wanganjagalingou.com.au/our-fight/
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/stopadani/pages/1816/attachments/original/1497939723/factsheet20.06.17.pdf?1497939723
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/lockthegate/pages/5429/attachments/original/1521596433/Adani_Water_Factsheet.pdf?1521596433
https://www.unitingjustice.org.au/environment
Author John T SquiresPosted on May 5, 2019 May 5, 2019 Categories Environment, First Peoples in Australia, Living in CanberraTags Canberra, climate change, ecotheology, indigenous
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Expressions
===========

Arithmetic expression parser library.  Embed customized expression evaluation
into your application or library. Example uses:

* Safely process an expression entered through a web application,
  for example some formula to be plotted. The library allows safe translation
  of such expression without exposing any application's internals
* precompiler that checks for allowed and denied identifiers in an expression
* have a common expression language through your application regardless of the
  backend languages
* compile arithmetic expression to any other expression tree (semantic), for
  example [SQLAlchemy](http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_7/core/expression_api.html) expression objects

Part of the [Data Brewery](http://databrewery.org)

Installation
------------

Install using pip:

    pip install expressions

Expressions sources are available at [Github](https://github.com/DataBrewery/expressions)

Works with Python 2.7 and Python 3.3. Uses [Grako](https://bitbucket.org/apalala/grako).

Quick Start
-----------

```python
from expressions import Compiler

compiler = Compiler()
result = compiler.compile("min(a, b) * 2")
```

Result from the default (non-extended) compiler will be abstract semantic
graph containing nodes *Literal*, *Variable*, *Function*, *Binary* and *Unary*
operators. Subclasses of `Compiler` can yield different outputs by
implementing just few simple methods which represent semantic graph nodes
(same as the objects).

Example
-------

Here is an example compiler that allows only certain variables. The list of
allowed variables is provided in the compilation context:

```python
    from expressions import Compiler, ExpressionError

    class AllowingCompiler(Compiler):
        def compile_literal(self, context, literal):
            return repr(literal)

        def compile_variable(self, context, variable):
            if context and variable not in context:
                raise ExpressionError("Variable %s is not allowed" % variable)

            return variable

        def compile_binary(self, context, operator, op1, op2):
            return "(%s %s %s)" % (op1, operator, op2)

        def compile_function(self, context, function, args):
            arglist = ", " % args
            return "%s(%s)" % (function, arglist)
```

Allow only `a` and `b` variables:

    compiler = AllowingCompiler()

    allowed_variables = ["a", "b"]

Try to compile and execute the expression:

    result = compiler.compile("a + b", allowed_variables)

    a = 1
    b = 1
    print(eval(result))

This will fail, because only `a` and `b` are allowed, `c` is not:

    result = compiler.compile("a + c", allowed_variables)

See the examples source directory for more examples such as very simplified
expression-to-SQLAlchemy compiler.

Syntax
======

Example expressions:

```sql
    1 + 1
    (a + b) ^ 2
    sum(amount) / count()
    date.year = 2010 and amount > 10
```

* Binary arithmetic operators: `+`, `-`, `*`, `/`, `%` (modulo), `^` (power)
* Binary comparison operators: `<`, `<=`, `=`, `>=`, `>`, `in`, `is`
* Binary bit-wise operators: `|` (or), `&` (and), `<<` (shift left), `>>` (shift right)
* Binary logical operators: `and`, `or`
* Unary operators: `+`, `-`, `~` (bit-wise not)

* Function call: `function_name(arg1, arg2, ...)`

*Variable* and *function* names are either regular identifiers or identifiers
separated by `.`. There is no value dereference and the dot `.` is just
namespace composition operator for variable names. Example variable names:
`amount`, `date.year`, `product.name`.

The suggested meaning of the operators is based mostly on the
[PostgreSQL operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions.html)

Writing a compiler
==================

To write a custom compiler subclass a `Compiler` class and implement all of
some of the following methods:

* *compile_function(context, reference, args)* – compile a function call. The
  `reference` is the same kind of object as passed to the
  *compile_variable()*, `args` is list of function arguments. Default
  implementation returns an object with attributes `reference` and `args`
* *compile_binary(context, operator, left, right)* – compile a binary
  operator `operator` with two operands `left` and `right`. Default
  implementation returns an object with attributes `operator`, `left` and `right`
* *compile_unary(context, operator, operand)* – compile a unary `operator` with
  a single `operand`. Default implementation returns an object with attributes
  `operator` and `operand`.
* *compile_variable(context, variable)* – compile a variable reference
  `variable` which is an object with properties `name` and `reference`. `name`
  is the full variable name (joined with `.`), `reference` is a list of
  variable name components. Return value should be either evaluated variable
  as a constant or some other useful variable reference.
* *compile_literal(context, literal)* – compile an integer, float or a string
  object `literal`. Default implementation just passes the argument. You
  rarely need to override this method.
* *finalize(context, object)* – return the final compilation result.

When compiling function arguments or operator operands you should check
whether they are literals or instances of a `Variable`. For example:

```python
    def compile_function(context, reference, args):
        # Assume that the context is a dictionary with variables and functions

        values = []
        for arg in args:
            if isinstance(arg, Variable):
                value = context[arg.name]
            else:
                value = arg
            values.append(value)

        function = context[reference.name]

        return function(*args)
```

Example compiler: Identifier Preprocessor

The following compiler is included in the library:

```python
    class IdentifierPreprocessor(Compiler):
        def __init__(self):
            super(IdentifierPreprocessor, self).__init__()

            self.variables = set()
            self.functions = set()

        def compile_variable(self, context, variable):
            self.variables.add(variable)
            return variable

        def compile_function(self, context, function, args):
            self.functions.add(function)
            return function
```

Use:

```python
>>> preproc = IdentifierPreprocessor()
>>> preproc.compile("a + b")
>>> preproc.compile("sum(amount)")
```

The `preproc.variables` will contain *Variable* objects for `a`, `b` and
`amount`, the `proproc.functions` will contain one *Variable* object `sum`:

```python
>>> print(preproc.variables)
{Variable(amount), Variable(b), Variable(a)}
>>> print(preproc.functions)
{Variable(sum)}
```

Note that the *Variable* object represents any named object reference – both
variables and functions.

Classes
=======

The following classes are provided by the library:

* *Compiler* – core compiler class that generates default structure,
  `compile_*` methods can be overriden to generate custom results
* *IdentifierPreprocessor* – a *Compiler* subclass with two attributes
  `variables` and `functions` containing list of `Variable` objects collected
  from the compiled expression. Can be used for validation or preparation of
  variables

What Expressions is *not*
-------------------------

* This is *not* a Python expression compiler. The grammar is based on very
  basic SQL grammar and few other simple SQL grammar features might be added in
  the future. There is no SQL compatibility guaranteed though. It is not meant
  to be a rich expression, but a small subset of quite common expressions to
  allow easy translation to other languages or object structures. Main use is
  arithmetic expression support for a modular application with different
  backends

* It is *not* an expression of an object-oriented language – it does not have
  access to object attributes – the '.' dot operator is just an attribute name
  concatenation. The compiler receives full object reference as a string and
  as a list of reference components.

License
-------

Expressions framework is licensed under the MIT license.

For more information see the LICENSE file.

Author
------

Stefan Urbanek, stefan.urbanek@gmail.com, Twitter: @Stiivi

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The project provides livelihoods for marginalised communities, but also empowerment for marginalised women within those communities.
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How will technology change the way we eat?
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Billy Clark
Rebecca Chesney
Food Futures Lab, Institute for the Future "Technology will change not only the way we eat, but what we eat. Scientists are using advanced genetic-engineering tools to recreate familiar foods in new ways. In the near future, milk, egg whites and specific flavours will be brewed from yeast - similar to the brewing of beer. As the technology becomes cheaper and more sophisticated, our paradigms for natural, sustainable and safe food will need to expand to accommodate a wider spectrum of choices and dilemmas. The question isn't if these foods will be possible, but when the policies, regulation and eaters catch up with the science."
Charles Spence
"Technology will continue to distract us while we're eating and drinking, but I'm optimistic that in the years to come it will become an integral part of our food and drink experiences. Everything from using an iPad as 21st-century plateware to using handheld technologies like a musical glass to provide a dash of digital seasoning - that is, providing the right sonic backdrop matched to bring out the best in what we're eating or drinking."
Why don't we eat more wonky vegetables?
By Matt Reynolds
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We're working with molecular biologists to create 'the steak that time forgot': mammoth meat from a lab environment. It will take a while and there are ethical considerations, but it will culminate in an epic feast where humans will be able to taste flesh that's been extinct for 10,000 years. We will go beyond the paleo diet to taste delicacies from before the dawn of civilisation. What foods these morsels be!"
Maureen Edmondson
President, Institute of Food Science and Technology "In a digital world we personalise most things, so why not food?
First, select a protein source, quantity, nutritional profile, production site, cooking medium, recipe and storage medium. Then determine where and how it will be delivered using an Amazon-style retailer. In contrast, local home grown, home-processed stores will flourish as a source of solace for those revolted by too much technology associated with the provisions of Mother Nature."
Ryan Pandya
Co-founder and CEO, Muufri "Food was the first technology. Farming, irrigation, cooking - none of these things are natural. But for the most part we've been letting nature turn the 'coarse' knob and we've been turning the 'fine' knob. What happens when we grab control of the coarse knob? The first priority is to get animals out of the food system - they're antiquated now we have better ways of making what they make. I like to imagine that in the future, we'll be able to invent substances like milk that simply had no reason
to evolve naturally."
Adrian Cheok
Founder, Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore "We are working on technologies that use electromagnetic stimulation to produce tastes and smells without using chemicals. We'll be able to sense and transmit flavours as digital information, so we can have multi-sensory communication experiences - things like sharing a virtual meal with friends on the other side of the world, watching a chef on TV and tasting their food, or sharing food pictures on Instagram with the flavour added."
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//

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This project was created on 07/23/2017 and last updated 2 years ago.
4chord MIDI - the USB MIDI keyboard dedicated to play all the four chord songs, from Adele via Green Day and Red Hot Chilli Peppers to U2 and Weezer. Thanks to MIDI, you can be any instrument - and all of them at once. Yay!
Yes, there's an undeniably vast amount of famous pop and rock songs out there using a chord progression built around the Tonic (I), Dominant (V), Submediant (vi) and Subdominant (IV). You won't even need the submediant to cover all of blues, country and punk music along the way. So why bother learning the full spectrum of an instrument (or, for that matter, learning any of the music theory terms I was just throwing around) and not just build one focusing on the essence of it. This is exactly what I did with 4chord MIDI.
What once started as a tongue-in-cheek idea to mock the simplicity of mainstream music has since grown into a full-blown project. Dabbling with songwriting myself taught me a thing or two about the infamous I-V-vi-IV progression over time. For one thing, it's catchy and it simply works, and I caught myself often enough accidentally ending up with it, despite all the mocking. But well, there's anyway a lot more to a song than the chord progression alone. After all, some exceptions (and cynicism) aside, all those famous "same" songs are far from being identical.
As stated in the description, 4chord MIDI is a USB MIDI keyboard, and as such, it works and behaves like any other MIDI instrument. The main difference is that the playback options are limited to four buttons, to play those mentioned four chords.
To make things more interesting and varied, any key can be selected as base for the chord progression, and the playback itself can be either a simple chord triad, an arpeggio, or a combination of both in a user defined tempo. In the first version, this is rather limited to 4/4 metre and quarter notes with very simple arpeggio patterns, but this is going to change in the future firmware development.
4chord MIDI is USB powered and mainly built around an ATmega328P, a good old Nokia 5110 display, and seven buttons - four to play the chords, and three to navigate the user interface.
For now I keep the focus on the piano shape, but I really like the guitar. The routing on the "amp" is pretty horrible though and nothing I'm comfortable to release at this point - I mainly wanted the guitar shape, so I just botched a quick and dirty amp design as proof of concept together. But that's going to change some time in the future.
All 4chord MIDI hardware documents, such as the schematic and PCB design are released under the terms of the CERN Open Hardware License (OHL) version 1.2.
Since there's no hardware USB controller in the ATmega328P, one central part of the firmware is the Objective Development V-USB library, set up to implement the USB MIDI device class specification reference design (see Appendix B). The rest is some custom designed code written in C, to be compiled with avr-gcc and flashed via avrdude - nicely wrapped into a Makefile.
There's an additional UART interface for debug output and user input - you can basically emulate the button presses through a serial console with it.
Both the V-USB library and the 4chord MIDI firmware are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
Shits, giggles, and dominating the wedding band business.
When I put together the firmware roadmap, it became clear to me that having an easy and convenient way to update the board with any future versions will be one of the most important features. With such a feature, I don't have to worry too much about missing features and can go ahead and offer 4chord MIDI to the world. Sure, there's the ISP connector, so updating the firmware has always been possible, but like I wrote in the previous log, I want that everyone can fully enjoy 4chord MIDI, regardless of their programming or electronics background.
Well, today I finalized the first proof of concept implementation of a bootloader that will be able to do just that: updating the firmware.
Thanks to the ATmega328's built-in bootloader support, it was surprisingly easy (almost disappointing) to have separated application and bootloader code. But of course, the main focus was the self programming and transferring the firmware data, so good to not have to worry about the linker along the way.
Pressing the "Select" menu button while powering up the board will enter the bootloader mode. It has a simple UART interface to reset / handoff to application, but pressing the "I" chord and "IV" chord button at the same time will also reset the board.
Next step is to fully integrate it into the Makefile and push some code to the Github repo.
Every time an idea pops into my mind, I tell myself to finally get a notebook and start collecting them in there, yet every time I end up scribbling them on whatever random piece of paper I find lying around me that doesn't have a shopping list or any other thought on it yet. Well, now I finally made a scrap book of shreds of papers, old envelopes and Post-it notes related to 4chord MIDI, and turned all plans and ideas about the firmware future into Github milestones.
I'll add issues for each individual feature to the Github repository as the milestones progress, but to give everyone else an idea what will come in the near and distant future, I thought this is a good place to tell about them.
If you check the project's history, you'll see that the current state was mainly developed back in 2015, and at this point, moving from a credit card shaped PCB to a piano shaped one is the only real change that happened since. For me, this sounds like a good moment to increase the firmware's major version number and go for a 2.x path for any new feature. Keeping in mind that I want to take this project to @Tindie as soon as possible, yet have a long list of features I'd love to add, it made sense to already plan for different releases to separate need-to-have, want-to-have and nice-to-have features. These features are now planned to be implemented in firmware version 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 respectively. Obviously that separation was done at my own discretion and may leave some definition a bit blurry.
The current firmware has on the one hand everything you need - chords and arpeggios in every key at "any" tempo - but is on the other hand too limited to have full-blown fun with it. For instance, the arpeggio playback is limited to quarter notes in 4/4 metre, and you need to know all keys by heart if you're interested to know what the submediant (vi chord) of, say, F# would be. A nice rhythm using eighth notes in either 3/4 or 4/4 (and more later on) metre as a playback mode, displaying the I-V-vi-IV chords for each key and highlighting the one that's currently played, now that's a whole different story. So is the ability to update future firmware versions without the need of any external components or even any knowledge of programming a microcontroller.
I've been looking for a reason to play around with the ATmega's bootloader memory area ever since I learned it existed. And while I should probably focus on other things in this phase, I'd still prefer being able to hand out 4chord MIDI hardware to an average person without any previous background in programming or electronics, so they can enjoy my creation.
In theory, those 2.0 changes should add a bit more flexibility and comfort, but things are still a bit generic. If I've learned anything in my life, it's that people most certainly have different preferences over very much everything, Being generic will therefore cater equally bad to most, which can be considered fair in a way, but customizing to your own taste is probably the better choice. The next firmware iteration is therefore focusing on user configurable settings.
The revised PCBs arrived earlier this week and later the same night, I was holding another fully assembled 4chord MIDI piano prototype in my hand. Moment of truth has come: will this finally be the revision I'm happy enough to share it with the world and start offering to strangers?
Initial situation looked good, I attached an USBasp programmer and checked if avrdude could recognize and communicate with the controller. No smoke, no short circuit, ATmega328p recognized - all good. Flashed the firmware, remembered to burn the fuses to use the external oscillator right away this time, and excitedly watched the syslog output as I plugged in the USB cable for the first time.
The LCD back light went on and the 4chord MIDI logo appeared on the LCD itself. It was one of those Disney moments you just want to burst into song. So I started up fluidsynth.
Long story short, latest revised Piano shaped 4chord MIDI keyboard PCB seems to work all well and nicely, the toppling problem is solved, and the back light works.
Time for some pictures and show the (admittedly minor) differences between the two PCB iterations.
On the left is the initial version, on the right the revised one. Ignore the buttons on the right, I'm currently on the (seemingly futile) mission to find the perfect tactile switch.
Main change is the fourth rubber foot on the top, slightly lowered silk screen on the buttons and the voltage selector for the UART connector.
The bottom side, has mostly re-arranging some components and re-routing the tracks accordingly and some silk screen related changes, and of course fixing the back light transistor arrangement (which is also a MOSFET now).
Again, left side the initial PCB, right side the revised, latest version.
So, yeah, I'm happy enough with all of it, so this will be the version that is going to be shared on the OSH Park website. The KiCad and Gerber files have been merged to the Github master branch and tagged as release.
Next steps are finalizing my preparations for a first small batch that will eventually make it to Tindie. But as I mentioned, I'm currently on some quest for buttons. Some year ago or so I ended with a random eBay order of tactile switches (the ones used for the chords), which are like no other switch I ever met. They are simply smooth and silent with a nice pressure point and feeling to it (Omron B3S series as it turned out). Would be great to find the same type of switch for the menu buttons - preferably in black (ebony would be perfect since those Omron ones are actually ivory), but so far no luck.
So I'll keep up the quest for a little while longer and little by little set up everything else - including some new firmware features.
Finished all items on my TODO list, and threw in some extra changes to - hopefully - end up with a slightly less amateurish PCB design. I'm still working on finding some better buttons than the cheap ones I have lying around for the menu navigation. They simply need a bit too much force and I'm just not happy with their feel. Especially in comparison with the chord buttons that are just so damn smooth. But knowing what to look for now, will make this a smaller issue.
Apart from that, latest changes are in the Github repo in the feature/hardware-revision-b branch (once I get the latest iteration and am happy with it, it will be merged in the master branch), and I just sent the design to OSH Park (which will have the PCB as shared project the same time the feature branch gets merged to master).
Thanks to the folks at http://pid.codes/, 4chord MIDI has now its own unique USB vendor/product ID pair! In practice this means that one could add a udev rule specific to 4chord MIDI, and for example automatically execute a shell script whenever a device gets plugged in, which could then start fluidsynth and automatically connect it via aconnect. Or start jackd and a2jmidid to get Ardour ready for MIDI recording.
Well, I guess those two example udev rules just made it on my TODO list..
The main change is obviously the PCB shape. I honestly don't know why I thought a MIDI keyboard had to be credit card sized in the first place, it's not like you'd carry it around in your wallet along with a battery powered computer to actually use it. So I figured, why not give it a more musicy look.
Also there were a few issues I didn't like in my initial design and wanted to change regarding the crystal oscillator (too high frequency for 3.3V supply voltage and a form factor which wasn't that easy to source) and the LCD (also sourcing situation, couldn't fit the back light, and they kinda kept on dying on me). Also the horizontal button arrangement for the chords playback didn't feel very ergonomic or natural.
There's really no need to have zero Ohm links in the power supply paths, this is a USB powered device. While analyzing and optimizing current consumption is fun and interesting, there simply is no reason to be able to do that in the final design.
Real pianos may be nicely balanced with three legs, but they don't have a huge USB connector in their upper end either. Pressing the "<" button will topple the board with the current mechanical arrangements, so that will need some adjustments.
On very first try, the LCD back light didn't turn on, and I haven't had time to look into it yet, so there is a possible issue that needs some re-work. Maybe I should just stop using BJTs and finally get more familiar with FETs.
Edit: turns out I used the wrong generic NPN transistor in the schematic, and base and emitter ended up swapped. Removed the SOT-23 transistor, bent some legs on a TO-92 to replace it, and back light turned on just fine.
Santa is coming early this year and he's so gonna bring some hot air soldering equipment.
So there will be another iteration in the near future taking care of all these things, and once I'm satisfied with the results, the PCB will be available from OSH Park's shared project section, and some assembled ones will make their way to Tindie. And in the mean time, I have a whole list of new feature ideas for the firmware to work on, so I won't get bored.
Start playing music, that's it.
Okay, just saw the video and I really like it :) Nice work!
Cheers :) will do some more at some point, using the new hardware, now that it seems to be ready enough.
I just have seen this project featured on Hackaday! It's awesome!!
Thanks :) was quite a nice surprise when I saw it there myself.
Wow, interesting idea! Good job, thinking about building own copy asap.
Thanks! I just wrote an update on the new hardware I designed and mentioned it will eventually be available on OSH Park and Tindie (so far the plan).
If you want to take care of everything yourself, the Revision A hardware has the KiCad project and Gerber files on Github, Revision B has only the KiCad project so far and is in its own branch (I could add Gerbers though - but as I wrote in the update, some minor changes are still coming).
An excellent customizable game controller kit for your phone.
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Former Brady Campaign President Dan Gross, Stands with Second Amendment Supporters
Video | Ammoland Inc. Posted on November 25, 2019 November 26, 2019 by Jeff Knox
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- In an amazing twist that was somehow completely overlooked by most of the nation's media, Dan Gross, who served for 6 years as president of the gun control advocacy group, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, joined thousands of Second Amendment supporters at a rally on the West Lawn of the nation's capital in Washington DC.
Not only did Gross express support for Second Amendment rights and respect for gun owners, but he also criticized gun control groups for intentionally and dogmatically demonizing guns and gun owners, while focusing on restricting guns instead of saving lives.
In the past, there have occasionally been lobbyists and politicians who abandoned pro-rights groups or positions to express support for some form of gun control, and those defectors typically received significant media attention for their actions.
But here we have the president of one of the oldest and most prominent gun control organizations in the country, publicly rebuking his former employers and reversing his own longstanding position, with no more than a yawn from the dominant media.
Gross' remarks are available on multiple YouTube channels and were covered in the "conservative" and "gun press," including here on AmmoLand News, so it's not hard for anyone interested to see exactly what he said.
As a member of the 2nd Amendment Rally Organizing Committee, I interviewed Gross before we agreed to invite him to the rally. I found him to be sincere in his commitment to the right to arms, if not quite as devoted to the full extent of the protections the amendment provides. At least he's open to discussion and learning.
There's a possibility that Gross came out in support of the Second Amendment as a publicity stunt, looking for exposure and support for his new effort that focuses more on the responsibilities involved in gun ownership than on additional government regulations, and I'm okay with that. Gun ownership carries significant responsibilities, and as long as those pushing the message of responsible firearm ownership aren't advocating for government intervention into the lives of gun owners, I welcome them to the discussion. I might not agree with everything that Gross decides to promote, just as I don't always agree with the actions and positions of established gun rights groups, but "iron sharpens iron." Discussions, even arguments, over philosophy and the best approach to the right to arms are a useful and productive process, unlike shouting and foot-stomping.
The 2nd Amendment Rally was, overall, a huge success.
We gathered over 2000 rights advocates on the Capitol lawn on very short notice, and without funding or active support from any of the major advocacy organizations. We brought together some 30 speakers representing a wide array of perspectives and approaches, all fiercely advocating against the creeping encroachment of government regulation on our fundamental right to arms. We were respectful, cheerful, and more diverse in terms of race, outlook, and lifestyle than the dominant media would ever admit.
We used technology to send our message far beyond the couple of thousand in direct attendance to thousands more virtual participants watching the live stream, and still, more who have and continue to watch the archive footage online, making this one of the most widely seen Second Amendment events ever held.
The core theme of the rally was the message that "You Are the Gun Lobby." It is and must remain the core message of the pro-rights movement. You can't rely on some group – any group – to protect your rights, and just sending a few dollars now and then does not get the job done. You must take direct action in the form of calls and letters to elected officials, and involvement in getting the right people elected. It's also critical that you engage with friends and family, with clear facts and by demonstrating a strong example of responsible gun ownership.
Efforts to spread the truth about gun owners and gun ownership into non-traditional communities – women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, LGBTQ folks, and people of every political and religious persuasion – depend on you. We need everyone to know that the Second Amendment protects THEIR rights, just as it protects our rights. The Second Amendment is for everyone, and we need everyone we come in contact with to feel welcome and appreciated as a fellow rights supporter. The right to arms must transcend our differences and bind us together under a single banner and common cause.
Don't let other differences and disagreements get in the way of what really matters. The right to arms is universal. Christians and Jews and Muslims and Sikhs and Hindus and Buddhists and atheists and everyone else, have the right to defend themselves and their families from criminals and from oppressors. We don't have to agree on the path to Heaven or road to enlightenment, but we can all agree that life is precious and worth defending.
Democrats and Republicans and Socialists and Libertarians and Independents and members of every other political party or philosophy, can agree on the right to arms while disagreeing on virtually everything else, and that agreement is the common ground on which personal relationships and mutual respect can be built.
Sure, it's hard to understand how someone could be a supporter of the Second Amendment and also be a supporter of Beto O'Rourke, but they undoubtedly exist. The trick is to focus on the former rather than the latter. Embrace the agreement rather than focusing on the difference, and you might have a chance of changing their mind about their choice in presidential candidates. If instead, you focus on the difference, you not only have virtually no chance of influencing that choice, you run a very high probability of pushing that person away from support for rights, by making them feel unwelcome. That's not how we win in the long run. For more insights into this sort of thing, check out the new podcast from my "liberal" friend Sarah Cade and Jon Hauptman. I think this is going to be a very useful series.
The Second Amendment belongs to everyone, and we must let everyone know that because we need everyone supporting it if we ever hope to secure our rights.
It wasn't that long ago that some of the most dedicated defenders of the Second Amendment in Congress were Democrats, and gun rights legislation could pass with bipartisan support. That's not the case today, but could be true again at some point in the future, but not if we push away Democrat gun owners.
That's why I welcome Dan Gross into our fraternity. He can't hurt us, and he could potentially help us immensely. He can help us to understand our opponents better, and that's always useful. The most important thing though, is that we can only win this fight by increasing our numbers. Rejecting and offending people who could be our allies is just foolish and self-defeating.
You Are the Gun Lobby. Your activism, your example, and your influence are what will make the difference between winning this fight, or sliding down the slippery slope of never-ending, incremental gun control.
The 2nd Amendment Rally Organizing Committee has disbanded, and all of our records are being deleted, as we promised they would be, but a new committee is already forming to hold another rally next year. Start planning now to be part of its success, but more importantly, start acting now to own the title of "the Gun Lobby," and lead the way into a brighter future.
About Jeff Knox:
Jeff Knox is a second-generation political activist and director of The Firearms Coalition. His father Neal Knox led many of the early gun rights battles for your right to keep and bear arms. Read Neal Knox – The Gun Rights War.
The Firearms Coalition is a loose-knit coalition of individual Second Amendment activists, clubs and civil rights organizations. Founded by Neal Knox in 1984, the organization provides support to grassroots activists in the form of education, analysis of current issues, and with a historical perspective of the gun rights movement. The Firearms Coalition has offices in Buckeye, Arizona and Manassas, VA. Visit: www.FirearmsCoalition.org.
Operator Z
The apostle Paul who wrote 1/2 the books in the New Testament used to murder Christians. People change as they learn a better way. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Neanderthal75
This is why I recommend the book of Hebrews to pretty much everybody across the political and religious Spectrum; a highly educated doctoral-level professor promoted logic, empirical evidence, common sense, and facts, to Advocate his arguments.. Saul was responsible for somewhere between 500 to 5,000 Brothers and Sisters in Christ being murdered for their faith in Christ, either directly or indirectly. Paul was responsible for the founding of many churches, at the behest of the Holy Spirit and laid the seeds for the Salvation of thousands upon thousands of sinner's. Same person, but different man, biblically speaking. Saul was faced… Read more »
StWayne
For the life of me I can't see why someone can't see the error of their ways, and change their mind. That is in fact Christian doctrine. If someone could explain to me, to the readers of Ammoland, what Dan Gross can do by "infiltrating" whatever it is you think he's infiltrating, that he can't already do from within his former position, then please, get specific. Inquiring minds want to know. I am of the mind that you can get more flies with honey, than you can by clubbing them with harsh criticism.
JIAZ
Infiltrator: someone who takes up a position for the purpose of espionage, an intruder with hostile intent
The fact Mr. Gross was head of such a virulent organization spreading half-truths, falsehoods, and outright lies makes me very suspicious of his motives. I would have to know his reasons before I could believe his sincerity. Until that time, I would not trust him.
I wouldn't trust the guy any further than I could throw him. He's simply gathering ammunition for his liberal anti-gun position; in political circles it's called espionage, covert operations, that has one goal in mind: to gather as much damaging evidence as possible. When you know your enemy, inside and out, only then can you beat him.
Justista
Do you remember Beto O' Rourke telling Texans they have every right in the world to own a AR-15? He did. Look at him now. He wanted them then, just wanted votes more.
UncleT
When I see people SWITCH SIDES, I think of John Kasich and Mike Dewine of Ohio who have been trying to screw gun owners for the last 5-6 years. Both supported the 2A before they were against it, you have the Buckeye Firearm Ass endorsing both and even after they stab gun owners in the back in Ohio, BFA still endorsed them. And they still endorse Dewine and Husted who have multiple gun bills now they are desperately trying to pass. Including Red Flag type laws that will include Alcohol use can be used to confiscate your guns. You have… Read more »
UncleT, I am of the opinion I would only trust somebody to speak for me that knows an infringement when it is before them and not afraid to call an infringement out regardless of who may be offended. Best as I can count there are about a dozen pro gun Republicans and the rest are simply following orders like good puppets. I am on the Codrea plan that if a person can't be trusted with self defense then they should be locked up or have a caretaker so Codrea can speak for me and if Wild Bill wanted to speak… Read more »
"A little leaven leavens the whole lump."
Are you serious? Talk about the fox guarding the hen house . . . . . . . . Who thinks THAT would be a good idea? What's next? Shall we get some Chinese State Security guys to guard the US National Laboratories? Hire the former DNC Chairman to be Mr. Trumps personal secretary? Adam Schiff's nephew as White House Chief of Staff? What moron thought this was a good idea? "Stands with 2d Amendment Supporters"? I wouldn't let him stand with the playing of the National Anthem; no danger of THAT for sure.
Let us embrace all who are welcome! Shun them, and all you do is add numbers to the left's radical cause, and, it's for sure that it's a numbers game we fight as much as it is a war of ideology. I'd much rather throw my political arms around someone who supports the 2A but with a few caveats, then to deliver them to the left's doorstep swaddled in vitriol. In the beginning Christianity was a numbers game as well that had to turn a blind eye to those things they disapproved of, in order to garner influence with their… Read more »
What do they say about a Leopard changing it's spots ???? What is the REAL reason behind his sudden change ? Brady campaign PRESIDENT for 6 year to INSTANT pro gun supporter…..
I would be very, VERY cautious, this wouldn't be the first time the anti gun morons have sent in a "MOLE" …
Rock, A less than coherent study of the federal government reveals traitors throughout to include a fake illegal alien President (Barry) who were in the process of null & voiding so to continue leaving the door open is a lesson less learned for sure. If it was not for being subverted we would not be here today trying to take back what was illegally stolen. I say waterboard the guy.
Deplorable Bill
I hope he's on the up and up. We'll see. Love is freely given but trust and respect must be earned. Once either has been thrown in the trash can of socialism, communism and/or the left, it's very difficult to earn back. Too many corrupt politicians remain in office. Too many oath disavowers remain in office, on the bench or on duty as enforcement people. Want my trust? Earn it.
Arm up, carry on.
Join GOA ! The only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington !
PatriotUnitDeath
Antonia Okafor from EmPOWERed2A, Joins GOA as Director of Outreach. Another plus for the 2A and gunowners moving US in the RIGHT direction!
@Patriot,that's really great news. GOA continues to get stronger and more powerful by the day. Since the NRA destroyed itself by betraying members and the 2A,GOA is proving they are top dog now!
Odd that it reads "or sliding down the slippery slope of never-ending, incremental gun control." with 25,000 illegal gun laws on the books to include lists of prohibiteds, lists of gun owners through permitting and background checks, registration requirements and straight out confiscation and somehow were sliding toward incremental gun control. Boy, if that's sliding toward it I wonder what it will be like once we have arrived at the destination. Is Gross willing to do jail time for the illegal laws he supported that got Americans locked up and the decades of tyranny he supported against America? We are… Read more »
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Additionally, My level of support for Gross will coincide with the support he gets from those who he helped to lock up and I would like to hear from those people so can we do a survey of people incarcerated by laws supported by Gross? I'm guessing Gross will garner more support from those who have not done hard time from his tyranny and I'll bet you a dollar there are many more of those people than there are of folks who will support Gross right now today from the current gun community.
Now if we can just educate and get a good number of the other anti-gunners to turn the RIGHT way!
USA: Rev, Resistance of toxic masculinity was once again the dividing factor. Meanwhile, I was just watching a video on the…
USA: Teach them young so they live long. Kids have rights also. With a little luck maybe we can start arming…
Will: @freedom,or P-U-N-K-A-S-S-B-I-T-C-H !
Ansel Hazen: The part your missing Parker is that Enema isn't a man so that douchbag quite rightly deserves to be on…
Will: @AH,I've been a GOA member for awhile now. You made a great choice with GOA!


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Q: How can I create a plugin that extends the functionality of an existing vim plugin? I would like to extend the functionality of an existing and popular vim plugin. The functionality does not belong in the plugin itself as it's not core to the plugin's functionality, however, it will be helpful to a lot of people thus it doesn't make sense to fork and edit the plugin itself.
I am looking for guidance on how to or reference to another vim plugin that does this that I can use as an example. My Google-fu has not turned up anything helpful. How can I develop a vim plugin that extends another plugin's functionality without creating a full, edited version of the upstream plugin?

A: That really depends on the existing plugin and the kind of extension you have in mind.
If you're lucky, Vim already provides a built-in extension point; the :help after-directory comes into mind here, very useful for extending syntax or filetype plugins.

Mappings and commands provided by another plugin can be augmented by your own variant. Ideally, you can make them distinct (e.g. refine the :Foo command into the extended :FooExtended).
If you need to override one of those, your plugin needs to ensure that the existing plugin is sourced first. This can be done with code like this:
:runtime! plugin/existingPlugin.vim
if ! exists('g:loaded_existingPlugin')
    " Plugin does not exist, skip extending.
    finish
endif

" Must use ! to override defined command.
command! Foo ...

One common issue here is that you want to invoke functions from the existing plugin that is not exposed (as autoload functions). There are hacks around that (parsing the plugins script ID from :scriptnames), but I would first try to submit a pull request asking the original author to expose the function for you.

For a really deep extension, i.e. when you need the existing plugin to be aware of you, and invoke your code as well, you likely need support from and (continued) coordination with the existing plugin. Write up a proposal with your idea, and outline the APIs that you would need. Choose the most generic integration point, not the simplest one that will suit just you. Available technologies are:

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*Additional plugin configuration (g:PluginName_ConfigName)

*Vim commands or :help Funcref passed to plugin functions, or configured in variables

*Custom :help User events that are triggered by the existing plugin, and that you (and others) can hook into (via :autocmd User PluginName ...)

*Some plugins even implement a form of object orientation via :help Dictionaries, which could then be exchanged / augmented

If you can make a compelling case for your functionality (synergy of 1 + 1 = 3, broaden user base), if it doesn't belong into the original plugin (or its author doesn't have the knowledge to provide that), and if you can identify a set of integration points that don't disfigure or complicate the existing plugin too much, this can be a successful strategy; I've personally done that to multiple plugins.

As a last resort, there's always the option of forking the existing plugin. If the original author doesn't have the time or doesn't like your proposal, you don't have any other choice. Some integration points are too cumbersome or introduce too much overhead. In these cases, you have to decide whether you have the time to keep up with upstream changes; it would be really bad if users have to choose between having your extensions with an outdated base, or switch to the updated base but lose your extensions.

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