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<h1>Framework is Awesome</h1>
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<figure class="quote">
<blockquote>
<p>UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid
things, as that would also stop them from doing clever
things.</p>
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Doug Gywn
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<h2>Framework and the <abbr class="ec">EC</abbr></h2>
<p>
<a href="https://frame.work" target="_blank">
Framework
</a>
— for those unaware — is the coolest laptop manufacturer ever.
Their whole <em>shtick</em> is producing laptops that give the
user the ability to easily and effortlessly disassemble, repair,
and modify their hardware. I highly suggest checking them out if
you’re interested in computer hardware at all. The laptops even
have hotswappable I/O!
</p>
<p>
Anyways getting back on topic, Framework has also been giving
power to the user on the software-side of things too! A good
while ago they open-sourced the
<a href="https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController">
code for the embedded controller
</a>
of their laptops, which offers all sorts of possibilities for
customization of the keyboard,
<abbr class="led">LED</abbr>
lights, and more.
</p>
<h2><abbr class="led">LED</abbr> Fun!</h2>
<p>
This is an area of the
<abbr class="ec">EC</abbr>
which I have not really looked at or touched much. I do want to
play around with this a lot more in the coming future though! So
far just for shits-and-giggles, I’ve patched the
<abbr class="ec">EC</abbr>
to make the power-button
<abbr class="ec">LED</abbr>
green instead of the normal boring white:
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<aside>
<p>
Just a tip: if you want to try any of these patches out,
simply copy the diffs and paste them
into <code>git apply</code>.
</p>
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<code>~/board/hx20/led.c</code>
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<p>
As you can see, it’s all fairly simple. I just had to change our
<code>EC_LED_COLOR_WHITE</code> for
<code>EC_LED_COLOR_GREEN</code>. The codebase defines a few
colors, but they’re defined as <abbr class="rgb">RGB</abbr>
tuples which is awesome, because it opens the door to
custom <abbr class="rgb">RGB</abbr> effects in the future!
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