Chris

I had a part CT scanned back in 2019. ~$100 for the scan, which is reasonable since this is non-destructive vs. the time + destruction if I was to do this by hand. It was an enlightening experience, and if you ever get the chance to do so - go for it!

I went downstairs an hour later and the slip to go pick it up was in the postbox. I am a legal EU resident once more! (As opposed to Portugal only resident while the card was expired)

@oshwassociation.bsky.social I have a ticket for the OSHWA summit in May, but due to logistics around my resident permit renewal, I cannot attend. Is there a way to donate the paid-for ticket to someone who needs it?

The madlads at @pimoroni.com overclocked an RP2350 microcontroller from the base clock of 150 Mhz to a whopping 861.6 MHz. It looks like 400-500 MHz can be stable on most Pico 2s, which is still wild. See: learn.pimoroni.com/article/over...

In 2001/2 my dad bought a NiMH battery drill. It was wonderful; for about 5 seconds. Today you can run a LiPo drill for a couple of months between charges.

And so it begins. I have installed Proxmox.

One perk I just realised - it's at TU Berlin, which is close to Berlin Zoo - an absolute must visit if you are in Berlin!

I’m booked!!! 🤞my residence permit will be renewed in time

I'm in the UK right now. I really wish there was a better way to do this. I have an email address that's old enough to drink in the US.

You could also do this in 18mins. 22.5 if you are not concentrating.

How many millions of MicroUSB connectors do we think TI is still sitting on? This is one of their newer dev kits (May 2024!)

🥳 Yay! So glad it’s on the continent this year! Now I’m just hoping my residence permit will be renewed in time!

For no reason at all, I was looking at Paper Guillotines. (I can't find reasonably priced A7 paper here in Portugal) This beast is 325 EUR... and weighs 17KG!

My thoughts exactly.

The solution is Sublime text, or Notepad++. You are welcome.

There are absolutely incredible levels of dedication on display when doing something like this!

My love language.

I was considering Milanote after being coaxed by a couple Youtuber sponsor segments, but then realised Apple Freeform exists. It's 90% of Milanote at 0% of the cost. Helped me quickly clean up my tab mess and organise a few ideas. Definitely worth considering if you need something similar.

My kiddo’s been struggling with anxiety since day one. I’m not lying if I say what happened today would have blown my mind a year ago. Super proud of this little guy. (He’s about 4/5m up in the air here)

You're not gonna believe where this trailer goes 😄

Particle Tachyon 5G single-board PC now available for $299 #Dragonwing, #Particle, #Sbc, #Tachyon

Sine waves are the best waves. Once you implement dimming against a sin() function, you won't ever use linear dimming again.

Speaking of... @jeffgeerling.com have you ever considered Tape storage as a project? *kindly ignore my spelling.

In my mind, tape backups on good old casettes make so much sense. I don't* know why it's not a thing. *I do, but I'd love to be dead-wrong. Tape storage could be an excellent home-backup solution, but it's SO expensive.

It's been a while since I promoted my own and others' Maker/Electronics Starter Packs! bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack...

ruffle.rs exists btw. Niche, but useful when you need it.

i have an enormous amount of respect for PCB fab workers. PCBs are ubiquitous and mostly invisible, but it takes a surprising and hard to understand amount of expertise to make them reliably at any scale and price, much less at the scale and price we're seeing

This is how you buy a Vidaa based "smart" TV and get the discount, minus all the ad nonsense. Pihole to the rescue! The funny thing is that Netflix is not even signed in, and has never been opened on the TV, but it's been hit 22000 times in the last 24hrs. (logs-netflix-com).

Woke up early and took the kids to see the sunrise. Hot chocolate after. It was 2°C! 10/10; doing it again.

Almost an inverse square relationship cost/performance wise.

This is the only valid form for a game tutorial. Video tutorials are evil 😅. 15mins of fluff for 1s of info.

It's not often that a channel with 1 video gets me to subscribe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5P7... is the perfect blend of videography, information, and inspiration!

Ads - at your fingertips! But this is pretty neat, if a little useless. Apple could not make the Touch Bar work, no idea how anyone will make this work. (For the record I loved the touch bar - just no proper utilities for it!)

Do I NEED this? No. Do I WANT this? Yes. (It's been on my buy list for a while 😅) Automated pre/post production checks is something I've not yet done and want to do.

That's clever! I have flat RJ45s and fibre lines running underneath internal doors, but I can't think of a better way to do this for an outside run/high tolerance doors.

My Switch 2 decided it’s a spicy pillow. Got a refund since no-one has stock here in Portugal 🥲

After a week of stress it's been confirmed the issue was a part sourced in the Shenzhen market. I can't tell you how relieved I am that it's not the design.

@snazzylabs.com did you know @seeedstudio.com has a TRMNL compatible display for just $65! www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-7-5-ePa...

I’m not nervous; you’re nervous!

After a long day of debugging this finally works. Turns out Nordic’s SDK is… odd. Newer versions won’t compile their samples, and the nRF5340 is tricky with it’s configuration if you don’t use the DCDC stuff. I softbricked it, but JFlash came to the rescue. Their ecosystem is a bit fragmented IMHO.

I’m supposed to be working today…

Accidentally unplugged an SD card from the mac while copying. Quickly replugged it, and MacOS just kept on trucking….

😅🥲😱 Finally!!!

It’s quite funny digging out an old 32GB SD card I bought for my camera - that I was very happy with and though was pretty fast - only to see half the speed of a bog cheap high endurance NAS SD card at double the capacity. The tech has matured at an astonishing rate.

ok, you're not ready for the answer. i traced it on the PCB. you'll never guess what it's connected to ... it's a max3232. yep. it's just RS232. i'm so used to "serial" being "a logic level UART" that i got spooked by a completely ordinary 5V level RS232 ;w;