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← Bench notes 30 July 2026

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Addressable LED strands glowing green and cyan in a dim room, wired to a small microcontroller on a breadboard.
First light. I'd soldered hobby kits before, but never anything that was my own idea, with no instructions telling me which leg goes in which hole. These did exactly what I told them to.
Newer For weeks we kept thinking it was the same raccoon visiting. Then we'd notice subtle differences. I want the app to help us understand the individuals, not just the species. Older First real pixels off the panel. It's an LED matrix run by a little ESP32, and watching an actual picture light up on it does not get old.

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