Glen Akins
@bikerglen.bsky.social
Building gadgets, riding bikes, and fighting the good fight for municipal broadband. Chip designer by day. Fort Collins. Some days you're a mountain goat; other days you're a fainting goat. 🐐
This is what I come to the internet for. We joked that Div/Grad/Curl were Snap Crackle and Pop… but this has the weight of serious people behind it, not drunk grad students at trivia night.
Did you know the 4th, 5th, and 6th derivative of position are called snap, crackle, and pop?
Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position - Wikipedia
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · yesterdayDid you know baby puffins are calling PUFFLINGS and that's real?
Glen Akins built mini 3D-printed traffic barrels with PIC12 microcontrollers that blink and drift out of sync just like the real thing.
Slow Down for These Hyper-Realistic Mini Traffic Barrels
Glen Akins built mini 3D-printed traffic barrels with PIC12 microcontrollers that blink and drift out of sync just like the real thing.
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Drunk me is buying sober me a Colorado fishing license. Sober me is lucky it is not a furbeater's license.
Spoiler: lower power, fewer support components, and more flexibility!
Build an Army of PIC12F1612-based Blinking LED Traffic Barrels
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WARNING! TACO BELL ADVISES NEW TACO SO GOOD IT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL, COULD REPLACE ALL OTHER FOOD BEFORE HUMANS CAN CONTAIN IT. URGES CONGRESS TO GIVE THEM MORE MONEY SO THEY CAN DEVELOP ANTI-TACO SAFEGUARDS
I made a bunch of traffic barrels with reflective stripes and battery-powered, blinking warning lights. No, I did not use a 555. Read my blog post to see why I preferred using a @microchip-makes.bsky.social PIC12F1612 8-pin micro to blink the lights: bikerglen.com/blog/army-of...
there's a Battlebots team that's all in on using AI. In their one pro fight they drove directly into a wall and got exploded about 30 seconds later. The entire crowd is cheering, even the announcers are taunting them. Incredible how much people hate this stuff.
This kid plays records from a record collection that he inherited and this time it was Undertow by Tool. DID THIS MOTHERFUCKER SAY GRANDPA?!?! IT'S HIS GRANDPA'S COLLECTION?!?! I need to sit down and maybe puke. Nothing ages you like popular culture. Nothing.
I got bored tonight so I made a clock. Enclosure is done. Software tomorrow. This is just junk I had lying around the house. The red button puts the ESP32-S3 in AP mode so that the Wi-Fi, NTP time server, and time zone can be configured. I'll order an acrylic window from SendCutSend eventually.
Economists: "If you exclude food and energy, inflation isn't all that bad." Me: "What if you include only food and energy?"
Work Jack gonna hate Drunk Jack tomorrow. But whatever...fuck that guy. Pussy ass job having ass binch. We getting lit to the MAX, pimp!
'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts www.livescience.com/animals/land...
'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts
As U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.
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Off the top of my head there are more Republican ex-legislators in prison right now for child sexual abuse then there are trans girls playing high school sports
choo choo choose anger@ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 2w agoI have not ever seen a single story about a trans kid causing any issue in some sport they’re playing (other than other butthurt parents) yet this is somehow an exponentially bigger problem than an ocean of conservative men preying on children and women.
Oh so now they don't want the cloud and SaaS. LMAO.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2w ago"We replaced Salesforce with a vibe-coded CRM built for our own workflows…That decision cut a $600,000 annual software bill to zero." - Fred Turner, CEO of Curative — Maintaining software isn’t free so the annual cost isn’t actually zero. We can only judge efforts like these after a year or more.
Of course, being a cut-up I always say it: Clusterfuck Incorporated! 🎵 I'll do it MY way, yes MY way 🎵
Hardware store's bathroom is out of order. Only if they could find parts and tools to fix it.
Apparently I did not buy the 1 mV / 1 mA upgrade. It's still good enough to measure the forward voltage of the LED at 10 mA though.
Old guy confuses accelerator for brake.
Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3w agoSo, uh, how’s that going?
