Tim Hanewich

I developed a quadcopter with a custom flight controller, programmed in Python (@micropython), that can efficiently run on a $4 @Raspberry_Pi Pico microcontroller! Check it out: github.com/TimHanewich/Ce…

@mom_agency_ More of this please!!!

Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin

I just published "The Understanding Gap" AI lets us produce far beyond what we understand. As we use agents more and more, the real skill becomes knowing: - What to understand - How deeply to understand - When NOT to outsource your thinking Read more: timhanewich.medium.com/the-understand…

@mwaseemzakir Pay for tokens only. Direct OpenAI Responses call. github.com/TimHanewich/AI…

GitHub Copilot's rates are rising, and Claude Code’s session limits are now expiring too quickly often within 30 minutes. What are some viable alternatives we should look into?

@rvm0n_ @icanvardar That's not c# that's D flat

@icanvardar what kinda question is this?

who is still using c# in 2026?

@billcompute Installing open claw is the last decision you will have to make. After installing you can defer all decisions to open claw. Gives you more time to talk with your wife, Qwen.

“Mom, how did we get so poor?” “Your dad said Openclaw is a fad and refused to buy 31 Mac Minis.”

@billcompute Qwen Stefani 27B or 35B? Not that weight matters, just more to love.

I just fired ALL my employees and replaced them with OpenClaws! Bold? Stupid? Genius? As I was laying in bed last night me and my wife had a heart to heart. 5 year plan. 10 year plan. That sort of chat. I broke down. I couldn’t take it anymore. “I’m gonna take my life back. I pay thousands of $$$ per month for people I must babysit.” I said, wiping the tears running down my face. “I’m gonna fire all my employees.” My wife gasped. I could feel the tension building. “But Bill…” she started. “You don’t have employees. You need to get a job. I can’t take it anymore.” This is why I don’t discuss business at home. Some people just aren’t built for entrepreneurship. Oh and my wife’s name? Qwen Stefani.

Good flying today 😊

Blast off

Successful day today! The ferrite beads + capacitors certainly seemed to have helped, but not as much as I had hoped. Much more stable Rx now, but still rocky at certain moments. Just one of the flights from today. Enjoy! github.com/TimHanewich/ce…

Let's fly! 🤞

From 8-bit to 16-bit checksum. This will vastly lower chances of accident caused by random pass. github.com/TimHanewich/ce…

Installing ferrite beads and two capacitors on the HC-12's VCC and GND lines seems to have significantly reduced the noise emitting from the SMA port + antenna caused by EMI from the ESC's. github.com/TimHanewich/ce…

We're back.

Circuits restored

@tt12514 Changes I'm making: 1. 2-byte checksum used now (reduces likelihood of random pass from 0.4% to 0.0015%) 2. Rx buffer dumping logic in case of overflow due to bad data 3. Ferrite beads & capacitors places on VCC + GND to HC-12.

@tt12514 Thanks for thoughts @tt12514 Yes, the range of the "mobile" one was still ~100 meters. But that was w/ spring antenna and holding about head height, within Fresnel zone. I documented my theory on how this happened here: github.com/TimHanewich/ce…

Today's work: repair burnout damage This was caused in a high-load test I ran a couple weeks back. Too much current I guess! 🫣

“What will software engineers do now?” Software engineers have been required to learn new skills every single year of their career. More than literally any other career in existence, software engineering has required adaptability. So even if software engineering as we know it ceases to exist, engineers will just keep doing what they always have done - they’ll learn whatever is required and will add value.

Could this really be?

@RobbiewOnline Thanks Robbie. I tend to agree. At home here I had it strapped to a metal mesh surface. Perhaps that acted as a ground plane and helped it receive data properly. Some research to do. But first to put this thing back together. Thx for the thoughts.

I ran your thread through Grok out of interest, its evidence based conclusion sounds... plausible. It's an interesting read and might help you look at it from a different angle. The part about not being able to reproduce piqued by interest, but there's a probable reason for that based on your environmental surroundings. x.com/i/grok/share/0…

Today was a tough day. Absolutely bewildered after the surprise problem today... Took the drone to the field today to fly for the first time with the new antenna mast. 🧵