Deep Dive w/Scott: Emoji Fonts in CircuitPython! #adafruit
13Join Scott as he finishes up work on LVGL font on disk support and answers any questions folks have. He's been trying Windsurf AI assistant for coding too!
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Thanks to dcd for timecodes:
0:00 Getting started
1:11 Hello everyone - welcome to Deep Dive
2:15 Fruit Jam will be available in the future
2:40 Thanks to Tim / FoamyGuy for filling the past few weeks
3:00 Scott will not be doing Deep Dives in May
4:40 Status update: Added third drive to CP
7:00 NerdSnipping - supporting emojis
8:37 unifoundry.com emojis
9:14 added lvmfont to the Adafruit_CircuitPython_BitMap_Font library
10:05 used Claude code to generate file parsing code (it checks for error message from compiler)
12:00 Demo of what is working so far - using new capture card - live output from Fruit Jam
13:16 Windsurf - (a fork of vscode)
14:13 emojipedia.org
15:01 partypopper, parting face, and other emojis
15:40 fonts loaded off the "disk" - not using all the RAM
17:13 NERD FONTS nerdfonts.com - fetching rain cloud icon
21:26 Status Bar emojis vs. terminal emojis
22:40 meta-period to get to emoji selector
23:09 emojipedia / wire keyboard / unicode plains
24:30 Circuitpython-font-generator (created by AI Friend)
26:53 Unicode Character Ranges at jrgraphix.net
27:18 using Cascade AI to help generate code - using Windsurf for code review
30:26 Might look at RooCode in the future
37:08 eject the drive and restart
39:07 Look at Claude code
43:22 vscode issues - the constant pop-ups....
48:55 check out the Japanese fonts - ( see tio showing the fonts )
54:45 return to windsurf and add some debug prints
1:00:27 Disable some of the serial mirroring
1:11:23 More debugging required :-)
1:27:06 fix might be to use the counts...54:45 return to windsurf and add some debug prints
1:00:27 Disable some of the serial mirroring
1:11:23 More debugging required :-)
1:27:06 fix might be to use the counts...54:45 return to windsurf and add some debug prints
1:00:27 Disable some of the serial mirroring
1:11:23 More debugging required :-)
1:27:06 fix might be to use the counts...54:45 return to windsurf and add some debug prints
1:00:27 Disable some of the serial mirroring
1:11:23 More debugging required :-)
1:27:06 fix might be to use the counts...54:45 return to windsurf and add some debug prints
1:00:27 Disable some of the serial mirroring
1:11:23 More debugging required :-)
1:27:06 fix might be to use the counts...
1:29:46 add ascii font also to a few languages
1:33:10 that fixed it - ascii in title bar and terminal
1:34:44 update settings.toml ( selecting fonts? )
1:38:00 staging changes and rebuild
1:42:35 now we have emojis
1:45:10 how to get cascade to remember context
1:48:50 edit ing .windsurfrules
1:49:29 claude created CLAUDE.md, windsurf didn't
1:51:38 stage more changes and git commit --amend
1:53:41 the new HDMI capture card was XR1 lite from EVGA ( was using the adafruit card )
1:56:46 wrap-up
1:58:39 artifacts in the circuitpython-font-generator
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