@emalliab.bsky.social
Music, Software, Electronics, Maker, Art, Books, Kids. Geek, dad, engineer, blogger, musician. I only follow what I think I can keep up with and mostly here to follow not post. He/Him
A screenshot of the BOXES Vol. 4 Kickstarter page showing 20 hours remaining with £4156 of £5000 raised.
20 hours remaining and just under £850 to be raised!
By my reckoning that’s around 40 backers. Can you be one of them? Do you know someone who could be?
BOXES is an anthology that showcases exciting UK based cartoonists. Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
Are you on Mastodon?
I've not found you over there so far, but can't help thinking you'd find a pretty good audience over there for this kind of thing...
Wouldn't it be a great outcome if the world collectively finally recognised that sometimes we could do with a few more people simply dreaming :)
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A summary of the small microcontroller display boards I have kicking around for my own reference...
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In the data sheet I was reading I thought the data had a minimum pulse width of 500nS (plus setup/hold time) and an address latch 400ns?
That worked for me anyway? But I wasn't using A8/A9...
Some of the control line transitions have a minimum wait time - that caught me out. Are you sure you're meeting all the timing criteria?
Isn't all control pins high "latch address" so what is the following data access? That looks like a lot of data activity with no further control line updates?
Cover of the magazine, Shoreline of Infinity 39. Image is a pinkish background with a mathematically inspired image.
Shoreline of Infinity 39 Now available for pre order
www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/shor...
Fascinating to hear how you (used to do|are doing) things - many thanks for bringing this to #RetroFest2025 today :)
01.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was fun to see a Compumate. I don't think I've seen another one in the wild before!
#RetroFest2025
Get in with that MS BASIC...
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Photo of a rc2014 and a HDMIPi display with a small solderless breadboard inbetween with a single chip on it, connected to both via jumper wires. The RC2014 is on and the display shows the boot information showing that BASIC is running.
Using a Raspberry Pi V1 and HDMIPi as a serial terminal for a RC2014.... almost.
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#RaspberryPi #RC2014
10/n
HUMANS are an Everything Technology. We need tools that we can use, not machines that will live our lives for us.
And not Agent software that burns forests and slimes rivers so someone can say they made a billion rather than a paltry twenty million.
More #buyastrangerabook day loveliness!
@lisatans.bsky.social is offering to buy someone whatever book they like, up to £15!
So, if there's a particular book you're after, get in touch!
UK only.
Screenshot of the linked information. Lots of text, but basically the dotnet-policy-service bot responding in github comments on a PR telling the copilot bot " please read the following Contributor License Agreement. If you agree with the CLA, please reply with the following information" and then suggesting some responses. Copilot does not appear to have responded...
Anyone else find this hilarious?
On the dotnet runtime repository, there is a policy bot asking copilot to read the contributors policy information...
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115733#issuecomment-2892074537
Fab - yes thank you, really enjoyed all the "near" ones. Creepily feeling quite near at the moment too!
Just embarking on the "far" stories now (although I've already read The Bee Bearer in Shoreline of Infinity) :)
Just started on Limelight (and other stories) by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social.
If the rest of the stories are as good as the first two, this will be a real treat :)
Photo of a small devboard with a USB-C connector, a 0.42" OLED display, two rows of 8 pins and a couple of buttons. The whole board is less than 30mm square.
Just had a bit of a deep-dive into two new topics:
First: Various I2C connections - Stemma, Qwiic, etc
Then: A cheap, and largely undocumented ESP32C3 OLED board.
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#Arduino #I2C #ESP32C3
Collage of women who contributed to the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission
💫🎉 Behind every successful ESA space mission, there's a woman. Behind the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission, there are more than a hundred of them!
Join us in celebrating them today, on international day of women and girls in science!
#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
🔭🧪
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
This image is a collage of 130 portraits, arranged in a 10 by 13 grid. The portraits show selfies and photographs of women who have contributed to the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission
Celebrating the women working on ESA/NASA #SolarOrbiter mission on this #WomenInScience day.
▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/02/Celebrating_Solar_Orbiter_and_the_women_behind_the_mission
#esa #astrodon
Boxes comic magazine volume 3 is down to its final 24 hours of funding on Kickstarter.
The current funding numbers for boxes volume 3. They read £4105 of £5000. 165 backers. 27 hours to go.
BOXES Vol. 3 is approaching the final 24 hours and we’re over 80% funded. Just £900 left to raise!
If you want to help us to print and get your copy of this comics showcase anthology then now is the time to act! Back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
Thanks!
Lo-Fi, 8-bit #Arduino version of Jeff Wayne's #WarOfTheWorlds...
"No one would have believed..."
Ok, so this just has to be reposted here #MrBlueSky
06.12.2024 17:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gah I love 1812, this way even more.
@diyelectromusic.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66uK...
I wonder if we should be taking fundraising/marketing ideas from the "AI" industry. Let's try:
"Short science fiction stories could increase revenue by over $15 trillion by the end of the decade."
Feel the scifi.
We have the future they keep stealing from (and getting wrong).
Just a few days left to back BOXES on Kickstarter.
We still have a bit to raise to meet the goal, so your backing and sharing will go a long way to bringing this anthology to life. Thanks!
Are you planning pure harmonic frequencies or even tempered approximations?
And is the plan to filter the square tones to remove their own harmonics and make them closer to pure sines?
Interesting :)
Last few days for this one...
Quite a range of artists included - well worth a look!
Here's the actual video...
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#LoFiOrchestra
