It’s all fun and games until you hit a RMW bug. :(

Once you understand them well, C and C++ are great. But yeah, that learning curve is rough.

These are dark times, my friend, and we’ll be lucky to make it out alive. I might just end myself if I have to watch the same 2 Daniel Tiger episodes on pbskids.org over and over and...

One of the few times I agree with Beth. That bag is wayyy over-packed.

Most LED strips are 12V and 20W. A USB port produces 5V and 2.5W (some can go higher, but this is the minimum spec). Assuming you use 1/4 of an LED strip for this, that’s still 5W. Even if you could boost the voltage, you’re still way under Wattage.

7 years in wildland fire here, and you are absolutely correct. Politics is huge in populated areas. The wildland urban interface is tends to propagate the “wildfire = bad” idea.