DIY Electronics and Hardware

Here is the code:

https://github.com/yucandu/Reginald

It consists of an ESP32-S3 "Supermini" dev board, a 2.0" IPS TFT, and some switches and buttons. $15 CAD total. I already had an old LaCrosse lying around. Lots of help from ChatGPT and Claude parsing the MLB JSON API.

Completely removed all its internals, some cutting of plastic involved.

It needs to be the S3 and not the cheaper C3 because the MLB live game API, which has all the latest pitch details, is so fucking huge. >1MB of text data, need RAM. A Raspberry Pi would be better suited but would be more expensive.

If the strikezone looks tiny, it's because it's to scale - maximum height of 4'7 (thanks Aaron Judge), the rectangle automatically adjusts for each pitch based on the reported strike zone size.

I wanted something that shows all the pitches and their speeds with different icons for the pitch types, like they use in Japanese baseball.

I plan on adding more features later. I managed to incorporate the two switches from the LaCrosse unit as well as adding a 5-way switch of my own. Not sure what to do with them yet.

EZMonitor is a lightweight KDE Plasma 6 applet that displays real-time data from your solar inverter.

Code is found here: https://github.com/yucandu/desktopfps

Link to how-to: https://pejaver.com/Projects/BasementMonitor.htm

Dear DIY I used to use Skype to call Toll Free Numbers in the US, free of charge, from outside the US. Skype is being shut down May 2025. Can you suggest a way to call Toll Free Numbers in the US, free of charge, from outside the US ? Yours sincerely rommmelll