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At the Alma 1 restaurant at KU Leuven, they clearly had chicken cutlets, but they absolutely refused to let you buy one separately, stipulating that you could only buy it as part of a set meal (5.6 euros for students).

If the set meal didn’t include the combination you wanted, and you just wanted to add something extra—for example, the set meal originally included a chicken cutlet, vegetables, and rice, but you only wanted the chicken cutlet—that was absolutely impossible there. You had to buy a whole set meal. But by then, I had already eaten lunch and couldn’t possibly eat a second one.

Their reasoning was simply this: it wasn’t an option on the menu, so they couldn’t sell it. They even called over a person in charge, who came out looking at me with a surprised expression and asked, “What do you want?” After I repeated myself, they just looked at me with a very innocent expression and said, “No.” Either a set meal, or nothing at all.

This is highly contradictory:

1. As far as I know, the cafeteria throws away a huge amount of food every day. This was told to me by a Moroccan Muslim staff member at Alma 2, who was kind enough to share what he witnessed regarding the daily waste. He said it made him feel very uneasy as a Muslim.

2. They prefer to throw the food away rather than sell it to students in a more flexible way (such as selling it separately at half the price of a full meal, or finding other ways to sell it).

I really don’t know what they are thinking. Perhaps they don’t care whether they sell it or not, or perhaps for them, adhering to the established rules is far more important than making a profit or solving the food waste problem.

– Leuven, Belgium (14/06/2026). Photo by Cecilia Genova

This is a simple script that creates a Conway’s Game of Life-based animation of text on a grid of LED lights. The main text is initially displayed on the LED grid, and after 15 seconds, it starts to disintegrate into a Game of Life pattern. The animation stops after 17 seconds.

A online demo: https://yin-renlong.github.io/game-of-life/ 

Here is an interactable demo (you may need to reload webpage to visualize it correctly):

How to Use

Simply open the script in a p5.js editor or embed it in an HTML file with the p5.js library included. The animation will automatically start when the page is loaded.

Code Explanation

The code creates an LED grid based on the size of the browser window and initializes the grid with the main text. After 15 seconds, the text starts to disintegrate and follows the rules of Conway’s Game of Life. The animation stops after 17 seconds.

Main Functions

• calculateGridSize(): Calculates the grid size based on the window dimensions.
• windowResized(): Resizes the canvas when the window is resized.
• draw_character(): Draws a character on the matrix.
• gameOfLifeUpdate(): Updates the grid based on the rules of Conway’s Game of Life.
• displayGrid(): Displays the grid on the canvas.
• isTextCell(): Checks if a cell is part of the text.
• countTextNeighbors(): Counts the number of text neighbors a cell has.

For more details, please refer to the code comments.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

Credit

This app was created by YIN Renlong. Feel free to use and modify this code for your projects, but please give credit to the original author.

Acknowledgement

Article “Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…” of Stephen Wolfram served as a source of inspiration, so many thanks!

– Vasto CH (12/2018, Italy)

– Villaggio di Jiankang, Hubei (2009, Cina)

– 28/02/2021, Rome, Italy.

fotografato da Cecilia Genova

– 1000 KM di Cicloturismo (2017, Italia)

– Fine della raccolta –

– Jiankang Cun, Hubei (2010, China)

– Yuekou, Hubei (2013)

– San Felice del Molise (CB)

Wuhan Univeristy – 武漢大學

Preface

O ne fact can be confirmed is that basICColor display has canceled the support of Spyder 2 and Spyder 3 since version 5.7.2. Perhaps basICColor thought Spyder 2 and Spyder 3 were too vintage to make use of:

Devices support in version 5.8.1:

Devices support in version 5.7.2:

While the importance of software for device backward compatibility is self-evident, the actual situation is unfortunately frustrating. In fact, the real configuration situation is far more complicated, more thoughtful considerations and preparations are needed. For a variety of reasons, it is necessary to seek support for older equipment. Even though the official instructions clearly indicate that basICColor display 5 will support Spyder 2 and Spyder 3, unfortunately, these two devices cannot be found under drop-out menu when selecting. When is obliged to use version 5.8.1, the following steps is the easiest solution:

The core of problem is to fix the Spyder.dylib file, which located in /Applications/basICColor Software/basICColor display 5/basICColor display.app/Contents/MacOS/. The solution is much simple: replace the Spyder.dylib from version 5.7.2 to 5.8.1. Here is the file:

file

• Spyder.dylib download link: click here
• Md5: d692b50045f97789a41118ecd25de281

(To ensure the consistency of the file, please verify Md5 yourself after downloading. If have any questions about this file, or have higher security requirements, please extract it from the official 5.7.2 version by yourself.)

PS: SpectraView Profiler 5 is the NEC branded basICColor, and they are essentially same software. All the steps above work as well in SpectraView Profiler 5 (preciously, version 5.8.1).

YIN Renlong

15 Aprile 2019

Pontificia Università Gregoriana

*updated on December 24, 2017

Preface

I really shouldn’t say much about the desire to have a wireless PC-Hifi setup. Despite having a large collection of CDs and LPs, I feel that digitizing my music library would be beneficial in some circumstances.

Though Audiophonics’ official website shows compatibility with Volumio (a multi-platform music player), I have spent a great deal of time in the last several days and, honestly, had quite a terrible experience when piecing together Audiophonics and Volumio.¹ Even so, I am really pleased with the sound from DietPi, which is more distinct and pure, as well as the efficient start time and UI design, and, ultimately, the stability when compared to Volumio.

As a result, the purpose of this article is to serve as a resource for serious philharmonicgeeks who have a limited budget but a need for “adequate” high fidelity quality.

The General Workflow

The Preparation

• 1x Raspberry Pi Model B v1.2
• 1x Audiophonics I-Sabre DAC ES9028Q2M (for Raspberry Pi 3, 2, A+, B+, with SPDIF & I2S input)

Ps: Since Audiophonics ES9028Q2M has been produced two version: one could be able to connect directly with I2S of Raspberry Pi; in the mean time the Kali version² requires a Kali i2s Reclocker . Be sure to choose the right version.

The installation of DietPi in Raspberry Pi

A faithful guide can be founded here: Setup Diet Pi on Raspberry Pi 3 – Lightweight Server OS

Configured it firstly and go forward to III section.

The configuration to DietPi:

After all the configuration of OS, let’s start the configuration to the DietPi part. An adequate proficiency of Linux knowledge would be much helpful and advantageous.

• Connect Raspberry Pi to wireless

Login into DietPi by using the default password dietpi:

ssh root@192.168.0.7

Ps: the IP address may vary as 192.168.0.7, check the router’s Ethernet page to fint it out

Successful login should look like:

Input

dietpi-config

Locate to the

7 Network Options: Adapters

Shows as:

Locate to Network Options: Adapters

and make sure onboard Wifi is Enabled, other wise enable it by clicking Enter

Then select

Scan and Connect

Choose your Wireless board case name and insert the password.

Save and quit.

After this step, Raspberry Pi will restart and would connect to Wifi automatically, Thus RAP could able to disconnect from Ethernet port of router now.

Set up audio card opinion

In this setp, shall type

dietpi-config

and locate to Audio Options

find out “Soundcard Tab”

and choose sound card i-sabre-k2m AudioPhonics I-Sabre ES9028 Q2M as shown in the picture

save and waiting for the installation.

AirPlay configuration

Thanks to the project Shariport, which makes it much easier the configuration of AirPlay.

• Method I

Input

dietpi-software

and select Software Optimized Select DietPi optimized software for installation

Scroll down to number Shairport Sync: airplay audio player with multiroom sync (shows number 37 in menu)

go back to previous menu

Choose Install Go >> Start installation for selected software

It may take a long time.

If want to use AirPlay after startup of system, you should enable Autorun of Shairport-sync:

Ps: In case of install error which heppen to occurre like my occasion:

Error - Unable to Install Shairport Sync: airplay audio player with │ multiroom sync
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.0.0_1..0.1t-1+deb8u6_armhf.deb is offline and/or unreachable.

Then should look fowart to method II:

• Method II

Just install Shariport as a normal application in Linux-based system:

sudo apt-get install shairport-sync

Which works well in the same way.

• Method III

Compiling from source, coming soon.

Till now, your DAC would function regularlly and can be recognized directly (make sure Pi and your computer is connected under the same network) as AirPlay device in Mac or iOS system:

The improvement of system

As the default configuration would occur choppy playback at a certain probability, it would be necessary to improve the system performance and sound quality.

• Enable Soxr³:

The official document indicates: Soxr interpolation will improve the output audio quality on Shairport. However, it is extremely CPU intensive. Personally I make it enabled.

Method of Enable:

sed -i '/interpolation = /c\interpolation = "soxr";' /usr/local/etc/shairport-sync.conf

Then restart all Dietpi services

dietpi-services restart

Method of Disable:

sed -i '/interpolation = /c\\/\/interpolation = "soxr";' /usr/local/etc/shairport-sync.conf

The same way

dietpi-services restart

• Troubleshoot:

If happened choppy (brokenly) playback, the priority (which call nice in DietPi) should be increased.

or try to

• Improve CPU Governor type

Type

dietpi-config

then select 3 Performance Options

Select Change CPU Governor

and set up to performance Forces CPU frequency to 1200 MHz.

• Disable video output

Using the Headless option will: │

│ – Disable HDMI output │

│ – Lower energy consumption by 0.1+ Watts │

│ – Set framebuffer to 16x16xD8 │

│ – Improve RAM performance by 1-5% (VideoCore shares RAM bandwidth) │

│ – More info here : │

│ https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=105008#p105008

• Optional: overlocking

Overlocking CPU would improve the perfernce, but it may increase the instability and lost the guaranteed. Personally, I choose low 1300 MHz ARM | 400 MHz core | 450 MHz SDRAM | 3 overvolt — it works pretty well till now.

┌──────────────┤ Warning! Continue with overclocking? ├──────────────┐

│ │

│ Your selected overclocking choice may void the warranty on this │

│ device. Do you wish to continue? │

│ │

│ Use of this tool is at your own risk. DietPi will not be held │

│ responsable for any damages due to overclocking. │

│ │

│ Although DietPi overclocks are tested for stability, results are │

│ not guaranteed and may differ from device. │

│ │

│ <Ok> <Back>

Finally

Finally we arrived the the end of rigmarole process. Be patient and we will reach a high level of voice quality after the crucible of desire:

1. Autostart of AirPlay

Method of Apt-get is automatically starts with system startup, otherwise enable DietPi-AutoStart Choose what software runs after boot.

1. How to poweroff the system?

Since DietPi is a real deal of Linux system, theoretically, it should be shutdown by soft-off, otherwise have the risk of dataloss. But actually since Raspberry Pi have no physical button of power management, I shut it down by switching off the power supply.

Advanced steps

ALSA Mixer : Launches ALSA Mixer, tweak sound card settings

A brief review of Audiophonics ES9028Q2M

The sound is good enough, hight price but no another choice.

Bug founded

When enable EQ setting, the Airplay will remain with mute after the restart of DietPi service

The main subassembly of Audiophonics I-Sabre DAC ES9028Q2M

1. 1x ES9028Q2M from ESS Technology (offical website has deleted the details of this DAC, the archive can be found here)

2. 1x Low-Noise Dual Operational Amplifier: NJM2114 from New Japan Radio Co.,Ltd)

General Description

The NJM2114 is a high performance dual low noise operational amplifier that could be replaced in application with the NJM5532. Comparing to the NJM5532; it has superior specifications on Slew Rate，Bandwidth and Offset Voltage. Furthermore lower noise and distortion are achieved，it is applicable for Hi-Fi audio equipments.

1. 3x NJM2114 (6150G): Low-Noise Dual Operational Amplifier from New Japan Radio Co.,Ltd (NJR) ( <https://www.njr.com/semicon/products/NJM2114.html>)

2. 1x CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Devices), from Altera EPM240T100C5N (detail: <http://uk.farnell.com/altera/epm240t100c5n/ic-maxii-spi-cpld-201-1mhz-tqfp/dp/1453503>)

3. 1x Microcontroller: Nuvoton TechnologyN79E825ASG (https://www.digikey.com.au/product-detail/en/nuvoton-technology-corporation-of-america/N79E825ASG/N79E825ASG-ND/4360596)

4. 1x LDO (Low Dropout Regulator): Advanced Monolithic Systems AMS1117-1.2 ( <http://www.ams-semitech.com/attachments/File/AMS1117_20120314.pdf>)

A kind of Linear regulator, its purpose is to provide a stable DC voltage power supply, especially for dropout voltage (the difference of smaller output & input voltage)

1. 1x 79m09a not sure the manufacture, speculate form STMicroelectronics

2. 1x E0512XT-1WAR2 DC/DC Converter, from Mrnsun ( <http://www.mornsun-power.com/uploads/pdf/E_XT-1WAR2.pdf>)

VDC 12V

1. 2x RCA Jack, speculate from AEC Connector

2. Unknown component: 1x YXC 10,000 AOCQR

Need to practice in the future

• [ ] Test with linear power supply

Wuhan Univeristy – 武汉大学

Contea di Jinxi – 金溪

Befor leaving

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