Yeah I feel that! This is why I stuck with HID and MSC parts of the protocol. And tinyUSB is a little difficult to work with too (though I can't complain, its free and works well!). But yeah I'm glad to be almost done with USB haha.

Still the same HID remapping project from last month (I was hoping to be done by now, but hardware is hard): https://github.com/cedarhacks/HIDMorph

This is an HID ReMapping device, things like converting keyboard input to joystick input, or adding macros to specific inputs.

The usage is:

- It has 1 USB in and 1 USB out.

- In programming mode it's a USB drive you can put LUA scripts on (or pull out log files).

- In run mode you can select a LUA script to run.

- Scripts can read incoming mouse/joystick/keyboard data and generate outgoing mouse/joystick/keyboard data or even just log events onto a CSV file.

The code is functional, I still want to polish it and add fun animations and stuff, but for now it works as described above.

This month has been mostly mired in a PCB rework and assembly in the US. Assembly with JLCPCB is too expensive for now, so I have been spending the last few weeks sourcing components in an attempt to keep costs down. I changed the PCB a bunch as well to make assembly and case design easier

While I don't really plan on selling this, I wanted to challenge myself and make it sell-able by keeping costs really low. This has been the real challenge and time sink recently.

It is fully open source, once complete I will export a parts list and Gerber files so people who wanna make one can just use those files.

This is a great project! Thanks for tackling it!

This is pretty cool, I asked it to visualize national import/export data, it did alright.

I was hoping to get a map with arrows like "$35B in agriculture" from China to USA. I wasn't able to make it do that, but the information was still there presented in a reasonable way!

I'm probably one of the people that would say AI (at least LLMs) isn't all its cracked up to be and even I have examples where it has been useful to me.

I think the feeling stems from the exaggeration of the value it provides combined with a large number of internal corporate LLMs being absolute trash.

The overvaluation is seen in effect everywhere from the stock market, the price of RAM, the cost of energy as well as IP theft issues etc etc. AI has taken over and yet it still feels like just a really good fuzzy search. Like yeah I can search something 10x faster than before but might get a bad answer every now and then.

Yeah its been useful (so have many other things). No it's not worth building trillion dollar data centers for. I would be happier if the spend went towards manufacturing or semiconductor fabs.