From f0dfb1c0c410b19e00422d7ebb8b31a3d36666df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wesley Moore Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:08:56 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix some typos and grammar in linux-conf-au-rust-epaper-badge --- .../2019/01/linux-conf-au-rust-epaper-badge.md | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/technical/2019/01/linux-conf-au-rust-epaper-badge.md b/content/technical/2019/01/linux-conf-au-rust-epaper-badge.md index 9fe8e61..79712b1 100644 --- a/content/technical/2019/01/linux-conf-au-rust-epaper-badge.md +++ b/content/technical/2019/01/linux-conf-au-rust-epaper-badge.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ This week I attended [linux.conf.au] (for the first time) in Christchurch, New -Zealand. It's a week long conference covering Linux, open open source software +Zealand. It's a week long conference covering Linux, open source software and hardware, privacy, security and much more. The theme this year was [IoT]. In line with the theme I built a digital conference badge to take to the conference. It used a tri-colour e-Paper display and was powered by a Rust @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ concluded that 300 requests per second was was probably going to be fine. `;-)` ### Mounting -When I started the project I imagined it would hang it around my neck like a +When I started the project I imagined it would hang around my neck like a conference lanyard. By the time departure day arrived I still hadn't worked out how this would work in practice (power delivery being a major concern). In the end I settled on attaching it to the strap on my backpack. My bag has lots of @@ -229,11 +229,11 @@ the last light so I suspect there wasn't much juice left. On day 2 I had had several people suggest that I needed a QR code for the URL. -Turns out entering an IP address on a phone keyboard is tedious. So after talks +Turns out entering an IP address on a phone keyboard is tedious. So that evening I added a QR code to the display. It's dynamically generated and contains the same URL that is shown on the display. There were several good crates to choose from. Ultimately I picked one that didn't have any image -dependencies, which allowed my to convert the data into embedded-graphics +dependencies, which allowed me to convert the data into embedded-graphics pixels. The change was a success, most people scanned the QR code from this point on. @@ -267,8 +267,9 @@ plush [Ferris]. I spoke about [Read Rust]. By the end of the conference the badge showed a count of 12. It had worked flawlessly over the five days. -Small projects with a fairly hard deadline are a good way to ensure it's seen -through to completion. Also a great motivator to publish some open source code. +Small projects with a fairly hard deadline are a good way to ensure they're +seen through to completion. They're also a great motivator to publish some open +source code. I think I greatly overestimated the number of people that would interact with the badge. Of those that did, I think most tapped the button to increase the