Briefly back onto the Farnsworths. Finished both cases, but one of the displays died, and the replacement sent was wrong. So waiting (again) to get the second one running.
Moved the Strowger script and the test card script onto an Internet facing server. Currently, I can only try the test card and remote loop back.
I also made the "readable" schedule again, some event names and titles do collide though. (not my problem, find shorter titles :P) hope I got everything right. https://supercon.davedarko.com/berlin24.php
Today me and a friend have spent a lot of time scratching paint with a needle so that the laser engraved paint wouldn't look like you have an eye problem.
Learned later that I shouldn't have laser engrave the resin print as that can produce cyanide apparently. Guess I was lucky that it didn't go fully through?
I might have an idea on how to fix that sig gen / scope indicator label on the bottom right.
We will be @hackaday Berlin together with
Würth Elektronik 🥳 Do you have a PCB design you want to show off at the event? DM us your project link, and we will bring a few copies of your board to the event!
I'm seeing an interesting trend between #hackaday#supercon and #shmoocon. When called out on their disgracefully gross single tone white cis male speaker lineups, they each responded with "we tried reaching out to other types of people (let me guess, a few white women), and they refused us".
This seems to clear their conscience and resolve it for them.
ahem YOU HAVE NOT MADE AN ENVIRONMENT GOOD FOLKS WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN.
Finally, I shot a quick video of my #supercon2023 badge hack while waiting at the airport. I hand-soldered 280 WS2812B-1010 LEDs during #supercon in a resin printed diffuser frame. Maybe not my best idea because it took 1.5 days to solder them together, but I had awesome people around me who kept me motivated. And finally it worked. Thank you all for your great feedback during the con. #hackaday
Here's a direct link to the #hackaday#supercon badge hacking demo I did, but it's worth watching the whole video to see all the amazing projects people came up with.
Preparing for the Supercon presentation of my portable Vectrex... I feel like on a high level I have interesting stuff to tell, but I'm at the point of presentation building where I go 'this is a mess, no one is gonna like this' to the point of me wanting to throw my laptop out of the window and live my days out with the Amish. I know it'll pass and I'll make it work somehow, but oof, it's no fun. At least I have a 3d print running for a 2nd prototype case, that makes it feel like even if I'm not doing anything productive, something productive still is happening.