Signal Switching for Maximum Offness

November 4, 2022 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Hail to the signal switcher! On this episode, Parker wraps up his prep work for the Extra-Life Charity stream and Stephen discusses switching signals.

Python Demo for Extra Life API

  • Stream Date: November 5th, 2022
  • Python to OBS functioning!
  • Websockets. What are they?
    • HTTP is unidirectional where the client sends the request and the server sends the response
    • Websocket data is continuously pushed/transmitted into the same connection
  • OBS has a built in local server that you can establish a websocket with another application
  • Python module obswebsocket
    • Provides a wrapper for all the OBS websocket functions
    • Can basically control anything in OBS it seems
    • Documentation is a bit lacking and module is out of date
  • Build animations and transitions in OBS and modify them with the python connection
  • Building a donation progress tracker? 

Signal switching tips

  • Maneuvering signals around your design
  • Methods of switching on and off portions of your circuit
    • Series
    • Shunt
    • Series-shunt
  • Relays
  • DG series of analog switches
    • Virtually every configuration
    • single, dual, quad SPSTs and SPDTs, 4:1 and 8:1 multiplexers
    • Many have separate control and signal voltage inputs

Estimating project time

  • Follow up from slack
  • Josh Pieper – Doomcheck
  • Takes in a text file and uses probability distribution to estimate timing for projects

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!