Dustin Howett

I’m a software engineer in St. Louis.

Projects
“Everything” I work on.
I produce projects and documentation at wildly different rates, so this is by no means comprehensive.
Incantations
n. spells or verbal charms spoken as part of a ritual
Snippets of code, configuration, or script–typically hard-earned–that might save you from Googling.

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Fix Framework Laptop 16’s keyboards appearing as gamepads on Linux

Yeah, QMK is like that. A udev rule will fix you up.
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“EC Card 2”, a closed-case debugging (CCD) Expansion Card for the Framework Laptop

An expansion card for the Framework Laptop 13 that gives you access to the Embedded Controller’s UART. What’s not to love?
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Hacking your Framework Laptop’s EC for fun and profit

In this post, I’ll walk through adding a simple but highly-requested feature to the EC: a Fn lock light. It’s mostly fun, there’s no profit.

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ANNOUNCE: ECTool.efi for the Framework Laptop

ECTool.efi is a tool for communicating with the embedded controller in the Framework Laptop (and potentially other devices with ChromeOS-derived embedded controllers) from the UEFI shell.

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The Framework Laptop’s Embedded Controller (EC)

The Framework Laptop is probably the coolest laptop of the century. It’s also got a pretty cool embedded controller, which this post details.

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