andy_warb

andy_warb, 8 days ago to homeassistant

It’s sooo tiny! #EspHome #homeassistant #m5stack

andy_warb, 12 days ago to random

I’m going to make it my mission to get to #emfcamp next year! It’ll require international travel with camping equipment and nerdy toys but I’m sure a year is long enough to plan ahead.

andy_warb, 15 days ago to homeassistant

My wife bought this fancy light for our living room thinking we would just be able to put our usual brand of smart bulb inside only to find it came with an LED bar. Luckily it came with a dimmer box in the ceiling mount so I was able to bodge a Shelly Dimmer inside and hook it up to #homeassistant. Kudos for Shelly for allowing this to be done without additional apps or cloud services! I wish all smart home companies could be like this!

andy_warb, 18 days ago to 3DPrinting

Designed and #3dprinting some aquarium hose couplers because I refuse to pay €20 for a little chunk of plastic. There is no way this can go wrong right? Right? 😂

mariatta, 21 days ago to random

Folks are asking what's next for me after #PyConUS.

I'm trying to figure out how to actually get paid doing things I'm good at 🤑

I'm working on finalizing how "Mariatta as a Consulting Service" would look like, so stay tuned for news.

Meanwhile one way you can support me is by sponsoring me on GitHub.

https://github.com/sponsors/Mariatta/

Thanks to the 11 people who are currently already sponsoring me.

I'm still at the sprints and would be happy to chat more in person!

andy_warb, 27 days ago to random

@geerlingguy have you looked into Meshtastic at all? I feel like you and your dad could put out some awesome videos about maximising range for LoRa nodes that the Meshtastic crowd would love (and it would bring a lot of attention to the hobby too!)

18+ Some_Emo_Chick, 1 month ago to Starwars

Revenge of the 5th

#starwars #starwarsday #funny #3dprinting

ChrisPirillo, 1 month ago to random

how do you other types live with yourselves

andy_warb, 1 month ago to 3DPrinting

I think this may win the award for the cutest thing I’ve ever 3d printed! (Can’t wait to paint him!).

I really want to print a massive one and put him on a boulder in my garden.

#3dprinting #3dprinted #grogu #BabyYoda #starwars #Polymaker #scifi #mandalorian #themandalorian

MLE_online, 1 month ago to random

I attempted to help my brother with a confounding problem with his car this afternoon, and after a few hours of work, we were no closer to an answer than when we started.

Recently, his battery has been draining down overnight. He thought maybe he had a bad battery, so he got a new one. Same problem.

I went over there today and found that the car is drawing 1.6 amps from the battery even when turned off.

We started troubleshooting by pulling fuses. The car kept drawing 1.6 amps through all of them.

I pulled the main fuse, and the car still drew 1.6 amps.

For a while, we thought it was maybe the alternator rectifier, but that wasn't it.

We unwrapped the sheath from the main bundle of wires coming off the battery and found no shorts.

We disconnected the wiring to the starter and that wasn't it.

The car still draws 1.6 amps! We can't figure out what's doing it!

andy_warb, 1 month ago to random

Eugh, my snack-obsessed kids have managed to defeat the smart-lock on our pantry by sliding knives into this gap and jimmying the latch. Does anyone know if some kind of protective cover exists that could prevent this? Thanks! (I guess it would have to go on the door side due to the door opening outwards!)

arstechnica, 2 months ago to random

FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

SBF had asked for sentence of just 5 or 6 years. Prosecutors sought 40 to 50.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/ftx-fraudster-sam-bankman-fried-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

timixretroplays, 2 months ago to 3DPrinting

Introducing the second iteration of my #fakerbeams project. I wasn't happy with the results of emulating aluminium extrusion as-is, so this is an entirely new construction system designed from the ground up for #3Dprinting, heat-set inserts, and metric everything. Finished structures get M3-bolted together for strength, but prototyping is done with bits of 4mm doweling for speed - it took just minutes to pull apart the little cube and rebuild it into the bigger box!

@3dprinting @3dprinting

A photo of a small section of the parts, disassembled, to show how they slot together.
A photo of a large (roughly 20 by 20 by 30cm frame) built from 3D printed parts.

andy_warb, 3 months ago to 3DPrinting

Busy weekend ahead! #3dprinting #3dprinter #prusa #mk4

andy_warb, 3 months ago to random

My wife is insane. She can climb into bed and be fast asleep in five minutes with the lights on. Meanwhile I’m usually still awake at 2am fretting about a conversation I had three years ago.

andy_warb, 3 months ago to random

I think when my Mk4 is delivered and built I’m going to 3d print a Prusacaster and hack some sound reactive LEDs into it.

andy_warb, 4 months ago to random

My wife just sent me a PDF file by txt message. Do I file for divorce?

Daojoan, 4 months ago to random

Modern work:

you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion, and track project progress on Monday and then update the Trello and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything you've just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases and each one costs $15 a month per user...

Daojoan, 4 months ago to random

After a long track record of releasing inaccurate, wildly misinformed statements, factually false claims and unreliable projections, we can infer a simple, if uncomfortable, truth.

Elon Musk fucking lies.

He lies about hyperloops, tunnels, Mars colonisation and self-driving cars.

And we can safely assume, he's lying about Neuralink.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/elon-musk-lies