make_it_braille

a rust crate that can be both installed as a binary and used as a library, can turn images into ascii art, kinda like:

$ make_it_braille --width 100 --dithering sierra2 ./uuh.png
⡯⣹⢹⡍⡯⡹⡍⣯⢩⣏⡽⣭⣭⡭⡯⡽⢭⠯⡽⢭⢯⡝⣽⢹⡏⣟⢽⢹⡝⣝⢝⢝⣝⢏⡟⣽⢹⢝⡝⡽⣍⢯⢭⡭⣭⢭⡍⣧⢙⡔
⣇⢗⣎⢺⡸⡪⢷⢽⢾⡸⣓⢗⡞⣮⠳⡝⣭⠫⣜⢱⡃⡗⡱⢃⠝⡸⡑⡋⢖⠡⢎⠵⠱⠍⠞⠨⠓⢑⠙⠪⡊⡗⢳⡕⣗⢺⢲⢕⡭⡺
⣇⢷⢸⡇⡯⠙⠝⠱⠋⢖⢱⣊⢖⣅⡋⣞⢸⢪⠎⣮⢱⢍⢎⠸⢠⢇⡼⡨⠎⠑⠁⡈⡀⢂⠐⠄⠂⠠⠌⠠⠠⡈⢪⠸⣅⢟⢼⢪⡎⣻
⣇⡻⡸⡎⢆⠑⡈⠄⠁⠄⠠⢀⠓⣾⠢⡏⡼⣱⢹⠔⣇⢧⢹⡘⡧⢿⡸⢃⠌⠤⢁⠔⠠⠈⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⡄⢱⡘⣶⢱⡇⢷⠔⡵⢨
⢌⢪⡣⣻⡄⢣⠠⡀⣀⢀⡔⣌⠞⣥⢻⡸⡣⣏⡜⣣⠳⡸⢄⠇⡕⢍⢎⡸⡢⣗⢵⣬⢗⣵⢴⡤⡦⡦⠺⡦⢻⢊⠟⡸⢡⢋⢜⢅⠇⡧
⢶⢨⠺⡤⡫⡫⠽⡭⢯⣝⢵⡅⢟⠸⠪⡎⠳⠜⠼⢨⠚⡔⠅⢧⡕⣷⢺⡼⣧⣻⡺⡮⡿⣼⢣⠟⡼⣩⢫⡘⡅⣍⢸⡀⡇⡼⣰⢃⡟⡼
⡇⣝⢸⠫⣮⢹⢎⣽⢳⣝⡗⢷⢬⣌⠣⠈⠅⢅⢡⡠⡖⣴⢛⠮⢷⣝⣝⢗⡯⣾⢹⣏⢷⢽⡜⣕⢑⠆⡪⢰⠁⡆⢢⢊⠊⡖⡩⢎⣇⢻
⡇⢮⢸⢱⡌⡷⢵⡹⣇⢷⡙⡏⢶⣉⢝⠸⡐⠐⢕⢑⢃⢇⠹⡙⡒⡣⢚⢕⢓⡚⡖⣱⢋⡎⡳⢹⠸⡡⠏⢬⢅⢕⢡⠊⣆⢱⢑⠦⡕⠹
⣇⢷⡹⢮⢹⡙⡪⡢⣋⢾⣸⢓⢶⢰⡌⢦⡡⡃⡆⢆⠔⡨⡐⢌⠄⣅⢘⢀⠇⡸⢀⠧⠌⡥⣙⢘⡂⢳⠘⡆⢲⢘⡄⡳⡨⣮⣹⢳⢏⠌
⡫⡊⡖⡱⢜⡬⡮⠺⢩⡞⣵⢻⢵⢇⡟⣼⢸⡊⣖⣱⢊⠦⡣⣊⢲⢀⠇⡜⢰⠅⡇⡜⡨⢢⠸⡠⢇⢕⡅⣯⢸⡆⣯⡚⡷⣪⢮⡻⡜⠠
⠾⠬⠮⠳⢋⢐⠁⠜⠰⢯⣽⣙⢷⡫⡗⣽⢸⡣⡞⣴⢋⣗⡕⣮⢜⡵⢱⣍⢎⡞⣔⢇⠷⡜⣕⡓⡯⡎⣷⢱⡏⡾⣪⢏⡾⣱⢏⢾⢉⠂
⡐⢐⢈⠂⠢⠠⠁⠅⢃⠚⢲⠻⣮⣫⣻⡜⣯⢞⡽⣪⣻⢲⣏⣾⣸⣓⣗⢾⣜⣧⢯⡽⣹⢇⢿⡸⣇⢿⡸⣇⠿⡼⣣⢟⡼⣣⢻⠐⡡⢈
⡐⠡⠨⠨⠨⡈⡈⠂⠡⠈⠄⠙⠐⠳⢪⠞⡵⣫⢞⡵⣫⢞⡞⡶⣣⢟⣼⢳⢵⡝⣮⢳⡝⡽⣦⢻⡜⡷⢵⢽⣅⡏⣺⢊⠞⡠⢊⠐⠄⡂
⡀⢃⠘⡀⠃⠤⠈⡌⡀⠃⠨⠄⠅⠂⠄⠨⡀⡁⢋⠘⠣⠎⢽⢸⠱⣏⢼⢣⠻⡸⢣⠻⡸⢇⠻⡸⣡⢛⡘⠲⡀⢇⠘⡠⢊⠰⢨⠜⡦⣧

you can see a small example of what it can do here

thermal_printer_rs

a userspace driver and CLI tool for thermal printers the use the ESC-POS protocol, unfortunately only works on windows afaik

it supports a bunch of features of the protocol, including:

image printing, with dithering (to make it look pretty woah)
QR codes
font styles and weight

a picture of a cheap chinese thermal printer with a bit of paper sticking out, on it is a grayscale picture of the Pokémon called Bidoof

palm_kb_rs

a Palm® Portable Keyboard USB conversion using an STM32F411CEU6 dev board with the embassy-rs async embedded framework. actually works surprisingly well despite the somewhat common mistakes in the documentation I was able to find online.

a picture of my desk, on it is a Palm folding keyboard, with wires connected to the connector leads on it and to a breadboard, which holds an STM32 dev board and a few other components. It looks very unstable and prone to break at any moment.

the plan was to eventually turn this into a custom PCB but turns out PCB design is very hard

wutville_bg

it's a twitch stream background using three.js, that shows emotes from Twitch, 7TV, FFZ and BTTV moving along a predetermined path, made in blender. the background model is from wutville, a Team Fortress 2 map, which was hand modified and stripped down to the bare minimum, to improve rendering performance on the browser.

getting twitch channel emotes and putting them into three.js was done using a TS library and auxiliary rust web server i made myself.

an animated image of a cartoonish christmas-y village, with a rail coming from a tunnel to the right, going down a slight incline towards the viewer. a stream of animated roughly square images, the emotes, can be seen going down the rails and disappearing off-screen

cabbit.me

a temporary image uploader service, for use in instant messaging platforms that don't have a built-in image uploader.

i made it using Svelte and Rust (as i usually do). images are stored in a public R2 bucket on my cloudflare account, so the backend is only responsible for receiving uploaded images and serving extra information about them.

this website

made it with Svelte, might add like a blog or something using rust for the backend for that

along with a couple other things of mine, it's running on an oracle cloud free tier x64 instance, being served statically with Caddy