After lunch yesterday, we went to the #HistoryOfScienceMuseum in #Oxford. It’s not very big but contains some really fascinating exhibits. It is right next to the #SheldonianTheatre and well worth a visit.
This wooden box contains some immaculate #brass#DrawingInstruments. Another rarity these days but I do remember learning how to use similar #instruments while studying at university.
I restringed it and tied some thinner nylon cord as frets, like you would tie gut frets on lutes. They're roo sliperry to stay in place but I think it's starting to sound more palatable and I can play chords now!
(Tuning is mandolin's GDEA)
I'll be coming through Oakland, CA in mid Feb. While I'm there I'll be hosting Sound Hackers at Circuit Launch with my friend Beau. It's part "bring-a-hack" projects on tables and part short talks/demos/performance.
Like bleeps and bloops? Like making things? Come along!
PacketIRC: A lightweight IRC terminal server that will let radio-based clients participate on IRC without the usual flood of silliness by @VY1JN https://github.com/juniberry/PacketIRC
My siblings and I all had free access to instruments and instruction here in #SouthFlorida back in the 70's, and that seemed to be a nationwide standard in most places.
I hate conservatism, neoliberalism and their selfishness and greed.
This week, we hosted at @LAM_Marseille (#CNRS / #AMU / @cnes) an #hybrid workshop to organise and plan the future ground-based follow-up observations of #ESA's upcoming #PLATO mission.
The follow-up observations will aim at characterising the mass of transiting #exoplanets discovered by this #space mission, down to #Earth analogs. This will mainly be done with state-of-the-art #instruments and #telescopes at #ESO, in #Chile.
@deadparrot thanks for the nice talk at #EuroRust. Esp. the proposal to think about how the data flows through the app was helping me a lot in the past to improve my #Rust based Web service quite a lot. Still need to check for "unnecessary" memory allocations as I'm running in a constrained embedded context... will research a bit more and if I found something will likely blog about it :)
I guess it's a form of #vanity, but when I have nice #books I like to pair them with nice #bookmarks. With the glut of #folklore pieces I've bought this year, I ran out of bookmarks and decided to get a couple of more sets.