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I want this room to track active builds, half-finished prototypes, and the lessons that show up somewhere between first sketch and working version.

Arduino Tamagotchi

A virtual pet built with Arduino and an OLED display.

Prototype on breadboard Hello World displayed on the OLED screen
Fixing my charmera
Prototype on breadboard

My camera is actually a Temu find—much cheaper than the Kodak version—but it came with a couple of issues. The first was the speaker, which was unnecessarily loud and a bit annoying. The second was the misaligned microSD card slot, which wouldn't hold the card in place. So I opened it up to see if I could fix both problems. Fortunately, the solutions were surprisingly simple: I disconnected the speaker by cutting one of its wires, and after a little bit of carefully applied "violence," I managed to realign the microSD card slot. Now everything works just as it should.

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