Hi there,
As many do i have stumbled across this site whilst trying to learn new skills and solve some problems. My name is Andrew and I am a digital technologies teacher in Queensland Australia. I have been trying to upskill myself in many different areas to get a better understanding on what i am teaching and hopefully if i have a better grasp on it, my students will too.
What brought me here was a project i have been working on as a tool to learn lots of things. I made an 'out of class pass generator' with a thermal printer, esp32 and an rtc. Originally it was on an Arduino uno, then a nano, now a esp32 as i look to make it more foolproof. I will explain more in the appropriate section later.
So thank you all for reading and i hope to learn lots here, and who knows, maybe even help someone as well.
@ajpatrick
Welcome to the forum.
But first, you have to show us your hall pass 🙂
Anything seems possible when you don't know what you're talking about.
@will I don't think they use actual passes any more, maybe facial recognition or RFID chips?
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
I was just trying to make a joke. Back in my school days we had mud tablets with cuneiform runes imprinted on them 🙂
EDIT: I believe his project is intended to produce such passes 🙂
Anything seems possible when you don't know what you're talking about.
@will You think we believe they had mud when you went to school? Maybe dirt, but mud was still to be invented.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
I sure you that we had mud. It was invented (and adopted for use) while I was in grade 10 !!
It didn't matter when I was in grade 9 as we weren't allowed in the halls anyway, because of the dragons 🙂
Anything seems possible when you don't know what you're talking about.
Thanks for the warm welcome!
I will post my code and issue in the esp32 section. But i assure you it is low tech compared to rfid or facial recognition. Those were ideas i toyed with but realised the name isnt really required on the pass as long as the time is accurate and because it is thermal printed a kid would have a hard time trying change numbers.
I somehow turned something born out of laziness (i hate writing out damn passes) into something consuming far more time than i would spend on writing them, but the point is the learning that goes with it, so its worth it.
Im not quite of mud tablet age, but i did get chalk thrown at me often when in school. These days i have to throw an apple pencil and i cant afford to replace it if it breaks. 🙂