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I could tell my wife (borat) was getting annoyed so I stopped, just tabbed away. It starts independently checking / testing the calibration values aka moving blind up and down! Ahah I had to tab over and be like stop stop you're annoying my wife!

Alright so I've been doing some testing with Claude code and it's pretty impressive, but bit of a highlight, got it set up as a systems agent at home, on boarded it to my arduino blinds, here's code here's over the air workflow. So in debugging the calibration with it, it's pushing changes.

Device with flat white base, two arms holding a small screen showing terminal starter text. A set of colored wires connects the screen and the base.

Yeah man so the white panel in the middle is the pi zero with a little power system, and then the 2.4inch lcd on slidable pivot arms so it can slide out from under keyboard while raspi is docked in the frame. The device comes out and idea is I can swap for different components like a phone stand.

Split keyboard with varied key colors, additional circuitry in the middle, an iPhone and iPad propped behind it, as well as other desk clutter like a journal, a glass, an apple and a battery bank.

A man wearing magnifying glasses, with a phone attached to a neck stand, using a colorful key board and a small display

Wanted to share because I'm proud of it, and think it's cool. I imagine open sourcing the board designs and caldera modifications, as well as the micro computer and attachments. I haven't published anything like this before, but watch this space because I want to give back to the maker world.

Split keyboard separated, resting on frame, tilting at the edge so outer feet are touching table. Small screen articulated above frame.

It has articulated 'wings' that slide out to reveal the inner space and provide structural integrity with lowest material footprint I could muster. They then 'tip' at full extension so the board feet touch the surface when extended.

Split keyboard propped on lap with frame supporting, Linux terminal extending from beneath keyboard.

Split keyboard on frame with supports articulated down, and a bolster underneath lifting base into the air.

Split keyboard on blue flat base, varying material colors, and open device with exposed battery and raspberry pi in center.

Half a split keyboard attached to frame, with larger screen attached to top showing a frame from a video game.

The terminal in that slot is the samputer, which spawned from imagining a little inbuilt terminal, whats the smallest surface area to meaningfully drive eg ssh sessions. That 'rackspace' also has a phone stand with another MagSafe disk, and I can just fit an apple Magic Mouse in as well.

PCBs printed from Christian Selig Caldera design, and some switches.

Initial prototype using different materials, hand cut boards.

Holding half a split keyboard above a clear plate with the other half sitting flush on the right side.

Split keyboard sitting on clear base, with iPad propped behind as a display, set on airplane seat tray next to cup of coffee.

Its been my daily driver, coming from experimenting with split keyboards for ergonomics, wanting to find a way to get more utility on the go, and support swappable components, sort of like a carpenters jig.

Split keyboard on frame slid out into open position, with small screen in the center.

Split keyboard with sides slid to center and angled for comfort, small screen extending from underneath.

Split keyboard with sides rotated and tucked together.

Split keyboard in separate parts, frame consisting of slide rails, articulated base and slideable magnetic disks in center. Small screen on pivot arms coming from white base.

Meet the samboard - it's a split keyboard frame based on the 'Caldera' design by @selig.bsky.social. Samboard slides into different configurations, spreading out for lap use, compacting for small spaces, or disassembling for desktop use.

More details below👇

Networking 7,370 languages visualized as a force-directed network

Data visualization: Every human language, from modern day back through protolanguage to a hypothetical common origin. Accurate, sourced, possibly complete. Includes sign language!

Tap or mouse over to highlight individual branches; many also have more info.

🛌 this project has been a beast

proto board on left with esp28 and motor driver? breadboard on right with same setup using jumpers

bottom view of proto board with wiring connections and some heavily soldered bridges

how it started hows it going

from breadboard to protoboard, featuring my worst soldering to date but just soldiered on to get my head around it. this is my logic and motor control circuit for my home blind project

haha mate come get me

hey buddy if its unity UI and you ever need casual help lmk I'm cursed with a love of UI

haha i mastered perched on the head, alternatively putting a hat in it (to simulate a head), or meta quest developer hub you can turn off sensor (so doesnt detect as 'off') and screencast but end up circling back to perched on the head

yesss

back of imac lcd screen worh aliexpress hdmi breakout board

raspberry pi booting up on the screen being held up by hand coming from off screen

side profile of screen

raspberry pi default desktop

yes! been meaning to try for a while but got the hdmi breakout board for the imac 27inch screen. picked it up in hard rubbish

[an awkward minute passes as Death struggles to pick up change from the countertop]
Death: (embarrassed) ha ha slippery coins
Drugstore Clerk: nah man it’s cuz you got them bone hands

i fantasize about being as good at soldering as mr solderfix on youtube. only thing i watch recreationally on youtube

looking at some exhaust fans on aliexpress lol

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

Have you seen 3D animations from the IDF showing secret Hamas hideouts?

According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets—sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."

michael keaton's birthday guests?

i was hoping if i solved more problems my posts would get better

was gonna say maybe carlisle lol - baked goods geoguesser

released an actual banger but my landlord has the masters

yks emergency pod wen?

you're my food inspo!

huge

rotating objects is an awesome way to see what items look like from all different types of directions - without the troublesome walking that would usually be a part of that process. rotation is integral in every industry from logistics to fiction, where authors "turn" ideas around in their minds

"oh so you made an umbrella or something?"

Just make it exist first. You can make it worse with each new pass while getting increasingly frustrated later.