Steve Swindley

Passed my Amateur Radio Intermediate Licence and have just got my new call sign from Ofcom. Bye M7DYJ, hello 2E0JZQ

20.05.2025 22:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

08.03.2025 10:01 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

12.02.2025 01:53 — 👍 22362    🔁 3330    💬 284    📌 164

All I can think is I have the same breadboard, even down to the little links joining the power rails across the board.

02.02.2025 22:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A soft, pink watercolor circle labeled “Your Life,” with a small dot near its edge labeled “this moment.”

Just a lil reminder today 🩵

29.01.2025 09:31 — 👍 437    🔁 103    💬 12    📌 7

Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024

I just completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/10 #LabVIEW

10.12.2024 10:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now - Raspberry Pi Introducing Raspberry Pi 500, available now at $90, and the Raspberry Pi Monitor, on sale at $100: your complete Raspberry Pi desktop setup.

Pi 500 is out today. I’ve used it. It’s good. A Pi 5 in a Pi 400 case, but less pink. If that’s what you need, you’ll like it. If you’re expecting M1 Mac Mini levels of performance, you won’t.

www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspber...

09.12.2024 08:21 — 👍 52    🔁 8    💬 5    📌 2

Dick Whittington pantomime program from Kings Theatre, Portsmouth.

Kings Theatre mug

Destination Portsmouth board game

A3 print of a design that shows the Kings Theatre, Portsmouth

Picked up some merchandise, a nice Kings Theatre mug, the usual flashing fairy wand and a new 20th anniversary edition of the Destination Portsmouth
The final picture is a print of the Kings Theatre

01.12.2024 23:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dick Whittington stage curtain before the performance starts

The auditorium celling at the Kings Theatre

The auditorium celling at the Kings Theatre

Afternoon at the Theatre selfie with the better half

Christmas has started, we visited Kings Theatre, Portsmouth this afternoon to see this year's #PompeyPanto, Dick Whittington. As usual the whole cast put on an amazing performance that literally had the entire auditorium up and dancing by the end.

01.12.2024 23:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I just completed puzzle 8 in Tachyon Book tachyon-book.com #TachyonBook

01.12.2024 22:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tachyon: Interactive Puzzle Book Tachyon is an interactive puzzle book. Solve the puzzles, submit the answers online, and receive codes that unlock further clues.

I just completed puzzle 7 in Tachyon Book tachyon-book.com #TachyonBook

01.12.2024 22:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's the 30th day of Christmas, less than 4weeks to the big day. Does that answer your question?

30.11.2024 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Picture of issue 2 Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

The ZX Spectrum colour values of the keys actually add up correctly.

1 = blue
2 = red
4 = green

blue + red = 3 magenta
blue + green = 5 cyan
red + green = 6 yellow

red+blue+green = 7 white

It took me 40 years to notice this !

30.11.2024 14:04 — 👍 104    🔁 18    💬 13    📌 1

If you don’t see “A$” and immediately read it as “A string” then this might not be the account for you.

29.11.2024 21:07 — 👍 37    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

Oh, Makers! Gods of glue and chaos!
Duct-tape dreams, solder sparks!
You, who wrangle 3D printers' tantrums,
Forge marvels from cursed IKEA parts!
Code-wrangling, gear-twisting alchemists!
Bow down, world, to their Franken-creations!
#yarrbooty #Makers

30.11.2024 11:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, I think I was one of two to complete every season and enjoyed everything about it. The best I managed was 2nd in the Winter 2017 season.

30.11.2024 11:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh Makers! Ye architects of madness and dreams, Forgers of realms where no blueprint gleams. With your soldering irons like modern Excaliburs, You summon sparks that dance like unruly saboteurs. In basements, garages, and cluttered abodes, You conjure the future from scavenged modes. Circuit boards whisper in languages arcane, While your 3D printers hum a digital refrain. Behold! The Holy Grail of duct-taped delights, A Franken-creation birthed in caffeine-fueled nights. Buttons and levers in chaotic ballet, What it does? Even you cannot say! Your kingdoms are solder smokes and tangled wires, Where failure ignites your ingenious fires. For every botched attempt, a phoenix takes wing, Each flaw a note in the anthem you sing. Oh, alchemists of code, turning void into light, Your algorithms, a cryptic delight. With lines of logic, you bind and release, Beeping contraptions that never know peace. To you, who weld lasers to garden gnomes, And sculpt rocket ships from recycled domes, The cosmos salutes your absurd endeavor— For no dream is too wild, no "why" too clever. So here's to the Makers, the tinkerers divine, From Arduino sorcerers to Raspberry Pi shrine. May your toolbox overflow with magic unending, And your zany creations defy all comprehending.

Ode To Makers #yarrbooty #chatgpt

Oh Makers! Ye architects of madness and dreams,
Forgers of realms where no blueprint gleams.
With your soldering irons like modern Excaliburs,
You summon sparks that dance like unruly saboteurs.

30.11.2024 11:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

1st thought: Nice 😎
2nd thought: What about type casting, isn't an INT divided by an INT an INT?
3rd though: It's the weekend, stop over thinking everything 😜

30.11.2024 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

BitScope Logic panel showing serial communications

Arduino connected to some buttons and LEDs on a solderless breadboard with a BitScope BS05 connected to monitor the serial lines

Analysing serial comms from an Arduino using my old BitScope BS05. Following Crash Course Arduino and Microcontroller Development on Udemy and making use of the kit I have laying around 🤓

07.11.2024 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Post run selfie, 6.46km in 39:48 at 6:10/km pace

Cadence during run showing the 10 short high paced sections. Overall average 161 spm, maximum 209 spm

Saturday morning Stride Repeats 💪🏃‍♂️👍😊 #garmin #beatyesterday #running

17.08.2024 08:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stephen's fundraiser for UK Sepsis Trust Help Stephen Swindley raise money to support UK Sepsis Trust

Out early for a Goal Pace run as part of my training for the Great South Run in October, and a great start to the day 💪🏃‍♂️👍😊 8km, 50min

I'm fundraising for UK Sepsis Trust. Check out my Just Giving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/swinder...

#beatyesterday

15.08.2024 10:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How to Lose a Library On October 31, 2023, the British Library suffered a massive cyberattack. Since then, what has been lost?

📚 📜 On October 31, 2023, the British Library suffered a massive cyberattack. As of publication, the Library remains physically open, but its digital infrastructure is almost completely disabled. www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-...

27.12.2023 20:28 — 👍 216    🔁 125    💬 5    📌 7

🎄 BOOSTER THREAD FOR MAKERS 🎄

Every year on X I did a thread to boost people making cool things that might make good Xmas pressies.

If you create things, reply with:

- description
- picture
- link to buy

And I will boost you.

Non-creators, boost this thread and buy the cool things!

MERRY XMAS

02.12.2023 08:42 — 👍 245    🔁 234    💬 55    📌 13

Design for Debug — The LabVIEW Experiment Podcast In this episode, Sam and Norm talk about why we don’t design for debug and why we should be.

Looking at debugging a LabVIEW app with a colleague and found this podcast interesting. One of the techniques we used was to add logging of the data being passed through the test on the actual system so we could load it back and debug the logic later.
www.thelabviewexperiment.com/episodes/sea...

10.11.2023 12:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks also for the invite @sasworkshops.bsky.social

29.09.2023 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0