The Always On pest is nowadays also in bicycles, e.g. the e-systems by Bosch.

• me, who just wants this thing to commute, is very unhappy about that trend

Love how you’re growing your next pit bit by bit :D

regulations require electric vehicles to make some noise

Even that is so dumb already. I’m happy I can still disable that on mine (it’s older than that regulation).

Yes I know about the straw argument of blind persons - which usually say that is not really a problem. A rolling car emits enough noise. Heck even bikes can be heard. This is really only for the benefit of healthy people that learned for years “cars loud” so they rely on their hearing only and often walk in-front of bikes too not expecting anything else but cars. And this has to stop. This whole focus on “cars” and “noise” - the “car brains” need rewiring.

More like “backwards-thinking”.

…and ffs I hope this won’t be allowed when the speakers are emitting to the outside. We do not need artificial noise on the roads!

Dead gods I wish we would stop calling everything a “Civil War” since Marvel. There is no such thing in a freakin industry.

A civil war is where real people fight against each other with weapons to the death!

Seriously this bs has to stop. This is NOT normal.

Yes. It’s slowly growing. Did mostly programming of the HUD over the last weeks so there’s not that much to show at the moment.

Nice! I’m a little crazy on this. The display has a full functioning Primary Flight Display - totally pointless in a space game - I know - but it feels better near a planetary :D

For now there’s not much touch use and I won’t add much because most of the suggested actions are on the button box itself (I prefer buttons).

The top has a kinda new button bar with a few functions concerning the app itself now though: That’s mostly to enable/disable network functions and theme debugging/selection for now. The app shows not only ingame chat, for example, but is also connected to my Owncast/Twitch/YouTube channel so I don’t miss messages during live streaming. That’s optional though and in some cases needs setup during runtime (e.g. YT) to obtain access tokens.

I do want to make some of the windows interactive so I can shove them out of the way when they pop up - or switch to a completely different view.

Currently this is semi smart e.g. when I’m mining it shows the last asteroid scans so I don’t have to linger around and check the probes manually. If something interesting shows up I just fly back. In combat mode all the unimportant clutter is automatically hidden and it shows targeting data and energy management.

It can also show current route planning, cargo inventory, a limpet (drones) counter, which system I’m in and all the little stuff that is annoying to look up all the time. I may add some more functionality here but as written before: I really prefer buttons 🤓

Edit since I forgot: It also shows alerts and plays sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1PkVhH9cc

That’s what it is 👍

It’s part of my Space Pew Pew gaming setup. Basically a glorified button box. The display is running a homebrew app that shows game data depending on the current situation. There’s a dedicated project page at https://simpit.dev/ and of course more videos on the channels, if this interests you.

What interests you on the display? The chipset? I’m sure all parts can be obtained individually but I just went with an offer from the VSDISPLAY Store. They have all sorts of DIY kits and I salvaged two older displays by making use of their LCD controllers.

I totally wonder the same with the ViperPit and the panel here :D It should be possible. A preliminary test with a printed version on paper looked good xD

for some reason they wanted me to have slack

I get similar requirements from school and kindergarten nowadays. They want me to install weird apps for communications. Last school had an online portal on the web and mail. That was a no brainer but these apps?

Hello Waydroid.

Not gonna taint my own phone with this stuff. That includes WhatsApp.

Jul 91? Now I feel old.

Whenever I order I always get a male and female connector because the terminology doesn’t seem to be consistent across connector designs.

Heh, there are a lot of unusual designs that are neither and both too :D Connectors are wild.

FYI: Video is up by now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWW1vUW-KiM

Nice, upcycled 👍

Haha yeah, it’s amazing what you can get when throwing lots of money at something. Or not. 🙃 I just love highly individual simpits and the creativity involved.

I love it! ❤️

ReadiBoard

Hm… not available in my area but I think I found something similar. Going to build a glare shield from this :)

Wonder what the product name of that foam board is. Looking for something like this atm.

Nice pit 👍

Still “just” X52 Pro. For some reasons mine didn’t break within 2 weeks like it seems to do for many others. Won’t replace as long as it keeps going :)