I am a Computer Engineering major. I like electronics. Doing hardware stuff was fun, programming is also fun and since that's easy to get into I've be playing around with it in some form or fashion since high school. I learned a lot and got exposed to concepts that I wouldn't know to learn about while in school. I want to keep at it, I want to reinforce what I've learned and learn more (shit just is cool, literal magic).

On here I want to document my efforts. Archiving / Sharing notes (Don't know how I wanna lay them out though).

I (at some point) wanted and still want to make a macropad (a small keyboard of programmable buttons). I thought this should be both simple and fun, potentially my first designed circuit that'll be tangible (not like I'm sitting around designing circuits). I initally wanted to do any rgb matrix within it as well, but need a macropad first (I still will but one thing at a time). I for once actually took it "seriously" and took the time to write things out, simple theory and concepts (proud of myself for doing that cause its something I can look back through. Its interesting to see how I was thinking, and what my solutions were).

Macropad-Notes

I love looking at this, I was actually trying

These notes are just about a year old at this point. The pcb design is out of date, (I've changed it so many times to make it "simpler" and more accessible (key switches to push buttons)) added the MAX7219 a necessary components for the led matrix (makes all that I wrote about running the matrix irrelevant, cause it runs the matrix, and ignoring power it does it all with 3 pins).

"Updated" Design

No resistors on the encoders in the macropad sr (sr cause its bigger since it uses keyboard switches) sr cause . . . didn't think about that

Don't think its perfect but it was fun and interesting to put together. I never had the PCBs manufactured cause at some point I watched something that was like "testing a circuit before getting it fabricated is a good idea", and I was like that's a good idea (also just broke). So the last thing I thought of doing before I just stopped thinking about all this was to put it together on a breadboard. That meant having to gather the components, ignoring the MAX7219, I needed more buttons (not the full 30 of the 6x5 matrix, but enough to test the concept), the rotary encoders, and more diodes. Remembering the MAX7219 I could get the through hole chip and play with that too (just thought about this, and just realized I could possibly pick that up).

Ignoring the last two sentences that's where I've left things; just got increasingly distracted till I just forgot about it. Honestly having typed all this out got me like just buy the parts and fuck around, so will do . . . at some point.

A friend gave me their electronics kit. They got it for school and didn't use much of it. I was at their place while they were cleaning and they gave it to me. Now I have parts I haven't had before and jumpers, a stepper motor, arduino proto shield, 3x micro-servos, etc. I now have 5 micro controllers (esp32 x2, arduino x2, and arduino mega x1)

Growing up I wasn't interested in writing in any form. School turned me off to it and I became uninterested, which is a shame. Ultimatly when an essay or some other writing assignment came my way I was able to bang them out; argumentative, persuasive, informative, and technical (doing written assignments for an electronics lab was wild, the most I've ever written in as little time possible; Here's my findings on this circuit; multiple pages, data and images included). Clearly I've been capable of writing at least in the more scholarly or technical sense. It wasn't till like 2022 that I started writing for myself, ignoring the project that started it; I feel like the whole thing makes me appricate the english & language arts classes I've taken, critical thinking alone even. Like as someone who's always been stem adjacent I was never interested in those classes. Now here I am sitting down and activly writing, thiking more indepthly about things I've consumed (aging has played a role in this alongside just being more aware to what I consume and the world around me (more so me just making connections, I'm not that stupid but like sometimes connections don't form even when I got the info to make them)) thats how I have these pages about whatever anime and whatever's going on there.

I sit here now activly wanting to write, to develop worlds, to develop characters, and to hold them dearly. Even though I maybe a little too shy to share my works I just love that they exist at all. (might flesh out the whole saiyan concept thing cause, again idea interesting and I just wanna)

I wouldn't call myself a writer, but I've done alot of writing. A lot of my writing has been for my astral project, very fun, very interesting. It's made me think harder about media, things like the author's intent, and what can be gleamed from the text (reading comprehension is cool). One of the things it's left me to think about are antagonists, foils and the like. The idea that they reflect the protagonist or say something about them is interesting (lowkey obvious but hey, had to get to this point myself). It's left me to think about and want to further or actually develop foils, anataognist, and have a more solid villian (a face to any issue or problem, I guess they'd be one where they're like "I've been defeated but you haven't one" typeshit). I have about 2 foils and how they differ from the protagonist is by their stances, and also by power or skill (power or skill maybe be less relivent but shrug). The three are different character that generally desire the same thing, they're all going through the same events "together", but move through them differently. I'm curious what can be said about my protagonist, with their foils in mind. What their foil thinks, and how that can inform a reader's view of the protagonist.

Antagonists and Villians are similar but not the same. This of course can vary I believe but generally hold I believe, they typically overlap but can be seperate. Again there's a relation between them and a protagonist. Just looking at an antagonist you get someone that opposes the protagonist, the nature of how they do so varies of course.

Antagonists and Villians are similar but not the same. Again to some degree they reflect and say somthing about the protagonist or their stance. Generally "the back bone" of what I got is about personhood in someform. The anataognist I have "for apart of the story" are scientists. Two individuals that are responsible for recent events and changes, that don't care for their actions outside of the data accumulated from what they've done. Their actions go directly against the protagonist, they aren't idealistically opposed in terms of "the back bone", but their desires conflict. I think right now I don't have the best idea of the relation between these two as antagonists and the protagonist, except that they simply oppose eachother, but with the idea of a villian or who's the villain I think I have some idea.

Looking at "the back bone" (the idea of personhood and fighting for it) the villian is activly in favior of confining the protagonist and all like them. An individual that direclty opposes the protagonist ideologically. This helps to highlight the differece between themselves and the antagonists, as in this case the antagonists make it possible for this villain to exist. The two scientists are responsible for bringing out the events that empower the villian, but they don't ideologically align with them, yet they still benefit from their actions. With respect to the protagonist it's easy to assume that they share noting with the villian, their too directly opposed. But looking at the 3 in this case the protagonist and antagonists are more closly aligned than compared to the protagonist and villian (I assume this holds generally but shrug, idk really).

(I feel I lost the plot a little bit here or didn't express it well but the idea is there, a idea is there, and it's still an interesting one I'll think about.)

So I was listening in on my brother's tiktok vid, it was ranking animes and they considered fight scenes into the ranking. I was like oh thats so "shonen pilled" (ie something the average shonen consumer would care for, flashy lights of fight scenes and such and so on) like come on man, if the story good the story good. There's tons of animes that have little to no or a lack of focus on fight scenes, and they deserve their flowers (shadow house).

Sometime later I found myself walking around talking about it; sure fight scenes are flashy but that's not all, they are vehicles for ideas and expressions of conflicts that may not typically take such a literal form. Two examples I was yapping about were Goku vs Freiza & Naruto vs Pain (I guess they're the most prominent in my head, first to come to mind, idk).

The nature of Goku and Friza's fight changed as it went on (been a fat minute since I've consumed DBz so salt everywhere, take caution) it shifts from a simple even typical "I fight bad guy" to one of a form of "closure". Friza is the creature that eradicated a race of people all cause they annoyed him (simplifying and ignoring super with Beerus) Goku's people the saiyans. Their fight slowly shifted to one of gaining a form of justice or pace for those killed by him. The saiyans where not good people but even still they were slaves to Friza.

Pain vs Naruto is a fight where two people of similar backgrounds clash over differing ideals of how peace can be obtained in a world of conflict. Pain is born in a nation destroyed by a war that it had no part in, and was taught how to survive by Naruto's master a man who'd taken part in the war that lead to the nation's destruction (before narutos birth, like long before) Ignoring ALOT that is necessary for his character and that aids in understanding where, when, why, and how he diverged from being a Naruto; he becomes a person that believes the world can not come to piece without conflict. Going on to form a group with the purpose of being the world's enemy. Distributing weapons of mass destruction to form a false peace. In contrast Naruto stands there like "dat bad . . . no, you no do, that's not real peace." (earnestly it isn't too). For Naruto this fight is one he must engage with. He want's to be Hokage (ninja president) and to be Hokage he needs to engage with the reality of something like this, someone that is a product of the villages actions in other villages. And this is just ignoring the reality of the another aspect of their fight, then who's vision of peace will prevail on this small stage. (I'm certain there's more here too in their fight . . . blowback)

Although not the most diverse listner music is peak. I listen to the same shit all the time and of course the playlist has grown with time (still kinda small compared to others). Something I love about listening to that it brings me back to different places in time; listening to someone like Fetty Wap (when I actually listen) brings me back to my early years in highschool, JuiceWRLD takes me out of highschool and into college.

I feel that this is so effective espically for those early years just cause where I was at that point in time; there wasn't anything real crazy going on, but 9th and 10th were different to my 11th and 12th. It's easy to use highschool as the beaken of sorts cause again it doesn't just get me to reminess about school, but life at the time.

(also being anti-social listening to music instead of engaging with piers puts a thumb on the scale I think.)