Before/after revisiting an old RP2040 project while flopped out in bed with a cold. Buttery! The frame rate, I mean, not me. 🌍🧈👹💦 Fun fact: RP2350 is slightly slower at this despite everything.
John T (the GRA is silent)
@grajohnt.bsky.social
Vibe Personality Hire Geology PhD, maker of absurd things, radio, and other nonsense. Always interested in how we learn through failure. Also at grajohnt @chaos.social
It's about to get really loud out there! (Megatibicen resh, just emerged from its nymph-stage exoskeleton)
The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers
My friend @drlucyrogers.com probably won’t have mentioned it, but she has a book coming out tomorrow, and it’s rather good www.penguin.co.uk/books/461507...
In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...
Tower in Motion: Resonance Mode Analysis of Devils Tower; new from us, now published in GSA Today: www.geosociety.org/GSA/Publicat...
Here's (I think) the infrasound recording of the #Houston #meteor sonic boom as it passed over here yesterday afternoon. Unconfirmed, but the timing is right. Via my @raspishake.bsky.social #RaspberryBoom
@stevenjgibbons.bsky.social - could I get an opinion on whether you think this might be the sonic boom signature of the #Houston meteor this afternoon? Zooming in, it's vaguely N-shaped, but not enough to convince me. Timing is correct at ~21:40UTC Event: fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_...
I can't believe no one has done this, perhaps because it's somewhat questionable under Swiss law, but I had Gemini take the #Bern Canton coat of arms and replace the bear with a #BerneseMountainDog and change the colors. The red is for their big hearts, and white for the snow they love.
Tiny (2.7mm wide) addressable RGB LED strips! Made sound-reactive using wled. More to come!
Made a custom acrylic faceplate for my new Music Thing Modular Workshop System, and testing a POC of edge-lighting it. Lots of components means not a ton of light makes it to the middle, but it's not bad.
It is ironically pretty expensive to buy cardboard shipping tubes from Amazon.
I think I'm finally done making masks for the #KreweOfFreret #MardiGras parade - less than two weeks to go! These will be thrown from the Queen's float, so turn up if you want to catch one :) #BeMardiGras
Starting a thread where I take things I've found on FB #Marketplace and use them for the most unhinged #car forum posts I can come up with.
Let me tell you the unintentional *precision* it took me to back my car *exactly* onto this bottle of washer fluid such that it fell over, went under the tire, and sprayed its contents *directly* down my driveway. Couldn't do that again if I tried.
1/ This Embry-Riddle aircraft reported GPS problems at Daytona Intl during the recent solar storm: They lost WAAS and couldn't do the RNAV GPS approach. It made me curious what the overall effect was on aviation, so I looked at aircraft GPS data worldwide. (Video from the ATC app: atc.com)
I built one of those <$2 Tesla coil kits from AliExpress. Look at that adorable little spark!
Laser cut and heat-molded masks for the New Orleans #MardiGras parade! Riding with #KreweofFreret again as part of the royal entourage. The parade route is highlighted, and each will come with a sticker so you can show where you caught it!
This story is quite something.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 7mo agoCynthia Robertson had long suspected residents of Sulphur, Louisiana, suffered from health issues primarily due to air pollution from surrounding petrochemical plants. She founded Micah 6:8 Mission, a nonprofit dedicated to measuring air pollution in the area. buff.ly/tkaH2Nl
How lazy are #Bernese Mountain Dogs? Here's ours, doing her self-imposed job of protecting the house from any hint of a stray noise outside. There's a reason they're called "tri-colored couch bears".
This is why I call it "Random Number Generator Season" rather than "Winter" here in Houston. This year I've woken up to: Jan 1: 3C Jan 2: 18C
I'm currently testing the waters doing some Intro to Making courses in my area. Does anyone have a favorite single-sided SMD learn-to-solder kit? I have some wonderful double-sided ones, but would prefer to teach the hot plate method for beginners. #makershelp
They're in a hurry today, and I don't blame them.
Along with #duvetknowitschrismas, time for a new yearly tradition: #ITschristmas, where we share IT support horror stories from helping family over Christmas. Here's mine to start:
Jonty Wareing@jonty.bsky.social · 8mo agoTime between walking through my relatives door and fixing a tech issue that has been "driving them mad": 8 minutes. The TV was in demo mode. It has been in demo mode for several months.
I just made this Christmas ornament - I'm pretty sure it says "MERRY CHRISTMAS" in Babylonian cuneiform. Not very happy with the materials though - might have to send a sternly-worded letter to the supplier.
