Francis Stokes

A view of the fully assembled keyboard on a wooden table. A coiled USB C cable plugs into an exposed raspberry pi pico board which is mounted to the top plate of the keyboard. On either side of the pico sits 24 keys - a distance of about 3cm apart. The keycap set is grayscale, with the bottom row of keys all being white, and the next 3 becoming progressively darker in value. Under the pico there are 4 WS2812 LEDs used for status.

An in-progress view of the keyboard being built. The plate is shown upside down with all 48 keys pressed in. The keys are connected together in a hand-wired matrix, with the main backbone of the matrix being made of solid 1mm copper wire. The rows and columns are connected to exposed pins of the raspberry pi pico module with somewhat questionable soldering. The left side is done, while the right side is not yet complete. The RGB LEDs are not connected at all, and the leftmost one is missing entirely.

I've fallen down the rabbit hole of building keyboards lately. This is my take on a planck, with a pseudo-split.
Hand-wired with 48 keys, 4 RGB LEDs, runs QMK + Vial on a raspberry pi pico.
It only took me about a day to get used to it, which was a surprise considering it's my first ortholinear!

Very nice 👌

These are gorgeous Tom 😍

why was the boolean operation questioned by the police?

it was looking shifty

YouTube video by Low Byte Productions The worlds most convoluted spirograph

After just under 300 days, I've finally released a new video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuC0...

I didn't get one bit of it. Maybe not a good sign...

At first this joke seems funny, but then you realise there's real depth to it. It's got exponential range.

Hexagonal fractal constructed by drawing a circle, with 6 circles inside, and each circle gets 6 more circles inside, etc

A serpinsky triangle, constructed by recursively drawing a circle, with 3 circles inside with half the radius, with each circle getting 3 more, and so on.

Hackaday Europe 2025: Workshops And More Speakers We’re proud to announce the last round of speakers, as well as the two workshops that we’ll be running at 2025 Hackaday Europe in Berlin on March 15th and 16th — and Friday night …

Extremely stoked to be speaking at @hackadayofficial.bsky.social Europe in Berlin in a few weeks!

I'll be talking about writing motion control software for CNC type devices.

I think there are still a *few* tickets available. I'd love to see you there!

Mountains of wiggle room in that 0.89%!

#mathematics #math

Whenever someone in my family asks me to fix some broken device, 99% of the time it turns out to be a power cable failure immediately after the strain relief.

I know it won't happen, but I wish that Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philipa Boyens would be given a huge budget and free reign to make a proper Silmarillion trilogy.

A custom built pen plotter, sitting on a (somewhat) messy wooden desk. There is a sharpie pen in the modular pen holder. It appears to be drawing an interrupted circle. To the left of the machine is an organised chaos of wiring harnesses, going off to a couple of hand soldered boards, with an STM32 nucleo devboard at the heart. To the right, tweezers, a crimp tool, and a partial laptop can be seen.

I've got some exciting news to share soon!

I wouldn't go that far!

Electronics is a hobby where, in the beginning, you never have the thing you need to hand.

But then eventually, after spending perhaps thousands of Euros, and acquiring all kinds of components and equipment, you still don't have the thing you need to hand.

Totally. The thing is, i still have a day job where I make production stuff. That takes a whole different kind of thinking and approach, and you're rarely down in the nuts and bolts (even when it's firmware!)

Hey @hackadayofficial.bsky.social

If this is indeed the official account, it would be worth setting up a custom domain handle for bluesky. Seeing @hackaday.com would leave zero question about officialness

I've come to the realisation that, in my personal projects, I basically never want them to be "production-ready". Because I really want to get into the root, fundamental stuff, there is always going to be a well established thing that people should use instead.
I just want to know how it works.

"He has aspergers, he's awkward"

My dude are you fucking serious? Most of the people I know have some kind of ASD, and their certainly not going around throwing heil hitlers

I made the mistake of peering over at twitter to see if people were talking about the Nazi salute.

They are, but it's all flat out denial. 99% of it is probably bots. What a shit show.

Do not dunk. Do not quote-post. Do not screenshot and repost.
They wish to be visibly cruel because it makes them feel big and strong.

Block them with the most powerful block button we've had on social media to save yourself the energy, and save others from the garage being spread

Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.

@nataliethenerd.com not to give more attention to that stupid story, but this analysis of the "evil" ethernet adapter was really interesting: lcamtuf.substack.com/p/investigat...

Predictably of course it was bullshit, but it's nice to definitively see exactly why

python as a calculator repl is incredibly relatable

Let out some magic smoke on an A9844 module by accidently configuring the microstepping pins with the 12v rail 🤦‍♂️

The quote detach was a real genius move. I'm definitely for reducing Internet pile ons, but I'm also for engineering good solutions to problems, and this does both.

Finally got around to setting up my custom handle

Free Our Feeds! What is it! @freeourfeeds.com

F.O.F. is an independent group with the goal of running THIS👇 social network totally outside of Bluesky.

It's not us. It's a fully independent version of the network. All the same users and posts. Running cooperatively with us and others.

Saw a take on LinkedIn by a CEO saying "Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang say AI will replace programmers, random LinkedIn users say it won't, I know who I'm trusting".

The random LinkedIn users are the programmers endlessly having to explain to CEOs that no, 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month.