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Three destinct dice towers made from lego. One from transparent red bricks, one from transparent blue bricks, and one that is like a fortress with chains and bats for detailing and a vampire at the top.

A selection of dice towers I made from lego.

About $15NZD from Jaycar.

This preamp can be built in three different ways for three different uses. As a preamplifier for: a microphone, or for a magnetic cartridge (e.g. like on a record player), or for a tape deck. The LM833 (opamp) is the main chip in use here.

A preamplifier circuit board kit and some side cutters on a cutting mat.

Put this preamp kit together tonight. Should be able to listen to music from my tip shop turntable through my stereo now.

To be fair im the nearest node, the only active node in town aparrently.

Kicking around the CBD with a haltec v3 meshtastic node. Suprised how nodeless it is here. Nearest node is Karori not even a whisper in the public chat. Going to have to fix that.

My bet is they plan to do a bad job on purpose. Its less risky to leak data than being caught selling it. Further more by doing a bad job with the site they lock people out of social security resources furthering their goal of oppression.

Went for a dive and swim at Princess beach today (part of Taputeranga Marine Reserve) with the goal of seeing some ocean life. Made eye contact with an octopus so goal achieved!

Could be a fun pauper commander commander?

Batman beyond and Men In Black cartoons of the 2000's shaped my imagination and turned me into the scifi loving nerd I am today.

Getting those last summer swims in at Petone beach. Picked up some flippers from the southern landfill tipshop so had to try them out next chance I had.

A micro scale lego build of Barad-dûn. About two inces in height. Tower made of black peices with a base ring of one by one transparent orange wedges around the edge. Saurons eye top and center.

Lego micro Barad-dûn. When you end up with a spare eye from a kit and you just have to.

Two bumble bees sleeping in an open yellow daliah flower

Sleeeeepy beeeeezzzz

Ōtautahi, New Brighton peir stretching out into the ocean. Beach in the foreground. Sunny day few clouds.

Ōtautahi, New Brighton. Had a good swim catching up with my bestie Benji.

New Open Source DeepSeek V3 Language Model Making Waves In the world of large language models (LLMs) there tend to be relatively few upsets ever since OpenAI barged onto the scene with its transformer-based GPT models a few years ago, yet now it seems t…

Deepseek v3 is opensource unlike chat gpt and as for peformance have a look at these graphs (where dark blue is deepseek v3 and dark yellow is chat gpt 4. hackaday.com/2025/01/27/n...

I couldnt not buy this totoro from the spicer landfill shop take it home wash it and dry it.

So cool that Moa were eating these. I wonder what spreads their spores now? www.science.org/content/arti...

A completed lego spaceship. The blacktron renegade.

Complete and ready to fly

Image of an in progress lego set called the blacktron renegade.

Its all coming together

Many red flowers on a fijoa plant in a blue square pot.

Just look at all those flowers on my tiny fijoa plant.

Fixed this walkman up recently.

Found and followed the repair manual to open it. Needed new belts. The old ones turned to rubber so was a process of removing the old belts with iso and buying new belts online.

$45 and a few hours all up not bad.

A partially built lego set

Guess the build?

A view of Wellington harbor in Aotearoa NZ, Eastbourne, Mākaro Island under the sun as it sets during summer.

Summer sunset view in Aotearoa NZ Eastbourne, Mākaro/Ward Island under the sun

A bumble bee on a hoya carnosa flower that hangs from a wooden fence.

Ahoya there