Project Journal

This section is different from the rest of the documentation. Where the guides and reference pages tell you what and how, the journal tells you why and when — the story of how this project came together.

Each entry captures a discovery session, a debugging breakthrough, or a design decision as it happened. They’re written close to the moment, with the rough edges left in. Some entries document dead ends. Some document surprises. All of them are part of the record.

Note

This is a living section. New entries are added as the project evolves. The most recent entries reflect the current state of the project; earlier ones reflect what we knew at the time.

Entries

Origins — Standing on saveitforparts How Gabe Emerson's open-source work made this project possible.

Finding the G2 Protocol Connecting to the Carryout G2 for the first time and discovering it speaks a different dialect.

The Prompt Termination Bug How a one-character parsing bug in console-probe led to understanding the firmware's serial protocol.

GPIO Mapping Session Walking every GPIO pin on the K60 MCU live over serial to map the hardware.

Console Probe Evolution From a 1,044-line monolithic script to a proper two-package architecture.

Radio Telescope Mode Discovering azscanwxp and what a satellite TV dish can do as an RF imager.