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.
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.
Just a little late-night day-before-Supercon making. Coasters, because I think some people could use a daily reminder of this on their desk, and because you and your presence in tech matters to me. At Alpenglow Industries, we give the very classiest of fucks.
Finally, the jewelry I've been obsessively designing for three days to bring to #hackaday#supercon this weekend.
Are you femme, queer, or simply not a cis straight white dude going to Supercon? Do you want ANY of these designs in ANY color of acrylic? As earrings, clip-on earrings, necklace or keychain?
DO please say so in the comments so I can make you some before I leave.
What do I get? Desperately needed representation 💖 help me help boo. Mutual aid baybay 😘 Or hey! Go find my Patreon.
"The big drawback to refreshable braille devices has always been their cost. The loose rule of estimation [.] has translated into something like $100 to $150 per braille cell"
According to Vijay Varada the cost of their braille cell is less than 1$
Fellow nerds 🤓 If you're going to @hackaday Supercon next weekend and you're interested in automating selling/shipping/fulfilling orders for shops like tindie@hackaday.social , Etsy, @lectronz , and @shopify , come check out my talk Saturday morning at 11:00am in the DesignLab https://hackaday.io/superconference/ #hackaday
So for Berlin and last years supercon I took the fancy looking schedule and tried to make it more readable and to make my FOMO worse, I checked how my latest version would handle the supercon schedule. Seems like its very useable - I think I will (re)move the lunch column manually. Let me know what you think.