int radioPin = 1 ;

typedef struct glyph {
char ch ;
word col[7] ;
} Glyph ;

const Glyph glyphtab[] PROGMEM = {
{' ', {0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000}},
{'A', {0x07fc, 0x0e60, 0x0c60, 0x0e60, 0x07fc, 0x0000, 0x0000}},
{'B', {0x0c0c, 0x0ffc, 0x0ccc, 0x0ccc, 0x0738, 0x0000, 0x0000}},
{'C', {0x0ffc, 0x0c0c, 0x0c0c, 0x0c0c, 0x0c0c, 0x0000, 0x0000}},
{'D', {0x0c0c, 0x0ffc, 0x0c0c, 0x0c0c, 0x07f8, 0x0000, 0x0000}},
{'E', {0x0ffc, 0x0ccc, 0x0ccc, 0x0c0c, 0x0c0c, 0x0000, 0x0000}},
{'F', {0x0ffc, 0x0cc0, 0x0cc0, 0x0c00, 0x0c00, 0x0000, 0x0000}},
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that code will load on a $1 digispark clone and you can attach a crystal oscillator to pin 1 (LED) to send a message by the ancient german (WW1) feldhell encoding. it has a tiny duty cycle so is very efficient on power. use a 433mhz oscillator for under 200km range or you can get oscillators for 27mhz cb. i am esting on 28.636mhz which could be picked up worldwide. i want to keep the payload under 5 grams if possible. thin film solar panel, supercapacitor, strip all the unused components from the digispark, or just pull the attiny85 chip out and use it dead bug style. these tiny baloons have been known to orbit the earth many times before they deflate. output power is tiny but i will test the power budget and maybe add a single mostfet amplifier stage. the transmitter dangles on a 2.5m thin wire, with another 2.5m wire dangling below to make a vertical dipole.there are plenty of apps to decode feldhell and you can even make a mechanical decoder from lego. it requires no logic because it is virtually a single line fax transmission.
i will dig out some working code i used last year for working throwies that can make a mesh network with $1 esp8266-01 boards. these are fingernail size and include wifi on board. they can run on solar or a lithium cell. there are only about 2 useable gpio for a siren or something to trigger. at very least a dozen of these scattered in roof gutters could give a short term wpa2 secure private network for a few blocks

ps. as for cooking my brain, i run a 2.4ghz 400w sat uplink into a 3 metre dish. i can get moon echos with it! im suprised dead birds are not raining from he sky sometimes!

hi, yes i have been really busy with real world stuff as well as trying to stop this idiot flooding the torrent page. it seems to have stopped. as goes bobs burgers, sorry i wiped it because i needed the drive cleared and was a bit ratty so i wiped everything. if you want i will find the whole thing in a sensible resolution (its a cartoon FFS!) or i will transcode it. it will get filed whe you expect in animation and puppets.

the chatgpt stuff is mine. i was testing its ability to write code. most of it relates to data beacons or website beacons that can be sent up on small baloons or 'throwies' on solar. the idea is to get signals and simple communications over wide areas independent of infrastructure. we are living in seriously fucked up times, so prepare.
cb radio is becoming very active lately and conditions are good. UK stations are coming into Bulgaria, and Canada is getting links with South Africa, which is a very good sign.
I am hearing a lot of talk on the radio bands that used to be called conspiracy theory up until the point where we were all repeatedly proven right!

I wonder if you have access to 10m band for the KQ2H repeater on 29.62Mhz? That is sometimes reachable over here on <10w power.
its in the catskills and has hard links to the NYC repeater networks. It gets a lot of interesting traffic from all over the world due to its elevation.

you may be interested in the stuff for UVK5 walkie talkies. these can be had on aliexpress for $15 or so, and are software defined. there is a big hacker community working on the hacked firmware that allows the radio to operate from 18-1300 mhz, including adding SSB receive, spectrum analyser, and a t9 text messenger. they also have simple scramble for voice which can be handy. search it on telegram for the user and dev forums.

the cheap rtl-sdr dongles are good to pick up the traffic on the military satellites that are constantly hijacked by pirate users. 250-300mhz and a home made antenna will get you on there. a very simple though fiddly mod will plop these dongles on the hf bands where you can monitor global traffic.

another top tip for the day, is install yandex browser. not a single person has failed to thank me for this one. you will never use google or google search again!

waldo, as columbo might say, 'just one more thing'

a while ago we had a chat about getting the meme folder its own page as a gallery. you seem pretty clued up on this kind of thing.
what would be your current ideas on this? it will have to auto update to include new files as they are added daily, and as you may have seen, i have started catagorising by filetype which i think should help. you were trying to explain stylesheets i think, which i still dont really get. maybe i would need a script to run on the server to pick up new additions, but as always i prefer not to have scripts on the end user because thats a security risk and i need the site to work on legacy devices.
if you have any thoughts on this i will try to put it into practice

death to israel

should be ok now

Pffft....
Using ffmpeg on windoze.
Batch files instead of script
Takes all night. Shitty multithread support

Im sure win 10 can multithread.
But if running ffmpeg at all please output as mpeg not mkv