Prompt:
familiarise yourself with the contents of this folder. the claude.md is from a claude code chat on the mini where we did the shopping and the prototyping. the other .md is today's chat with the claude web app while i was soldering and setting up. I've got the powerboost on battery (blue light, all good from the looks of it). I have an apple keyboard plugged into the USB-A with a standard old-style apple cable. I have the ESP32 via a microUSB into a mac adaptor to USB-C, ready to plug into this device (Macbook) when you give me the word.
What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to figure out how to power and connect peripherals to an ESP32 running on a Powerboost battery.
What happened: Worked through USB power architecture constraints — the Powerboost doesn't provide power on its USB port — and identified an OTG Y cable as the solution to split power and data.
Reflection: Most of the problems with this project came from my sloppy soldering. The code part was easy.
Prompt:
Are you registering the ESP32 I’ve plugged in?
What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to pair an ESP32 with a BLE keyboard.
What happened: Scanned BLE devices extensively, discovered the Magic Keyboard was incompatible, restored the writer firmware, and identified the key specs to look for in a compatible BLE keyboard for future purchases.
Reflection: Once again, code and Bluetooth easy, physical wiring wrong…
Prompt:
Found in a drawer
What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to understand the pHAT DAC hardware pinout and investigate an old Raspberry Pi OS SD card I found.
What happened: Confirmed the I²S pinout for a pHAT DAC audio card and began exploring an old Pi OS SD card that was mounted on a mini board.
Reflection: You can probably tell that I’m on holiday by the projects this week
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