Extelec

Extelec, 21 hours ago to random

I may have reached the minimum value to be able to say, I now have a herd of Pi TeleCows

Extelec, 1 day ago to random

Giving up on breakfast out, this is getting expensive

Extelec, 1 day ago to random

The likely orientation of un-soldered sm components when hand soldering.

Upsidedown
Somewhere across the room
Upsidedown and across the room*
Stuck to your tweezers.
Stuck to your solderingiron
Stuck to your elbow.
Stuck to flux on your pcb, then upside down when moved.
In plain sight on your pcb, but can't be found.
^above & upsidedown.
Lost. **
Lost and upsidedown* **

*pure conjecture no one has ever seen this.

** properly Lost, not recently seen travelling at speed

Extelec, 2 days ago to random

Have they added AI into systemd yet?

Extelec, 3 days ago to random

Pi Telecow Inital comit to github.

Generally working, still loads to do.
https://github.com/ExtremeElectronics/TeleCow

Extelec, 5 days ago to random

It's great that small villages put up these so you can find the nearest pub.

Extelec, 5 days ago to random

One thing you cannot explain to non-programmers is that feeling when you have spent hours and hours finding/fixing/programming a specific problem, then you finally get it to work.

That feeling is what drives us. Shame it's 20 to 1 , pain to euphoria.

Extelec, 7 days ago to random

For reference, this is a plug socket.

Extelec, 9 days ago to random

How did we do...

Well, you have only so far managed to take money from me, so on that basis, yes, you did very well.

Can I reserve judgement until I actually receive the goods ?

Extelec, 12 days ago to Dogs

#germanshepherd cooling today

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

Extelec, 14 days ago to random

Anyone else saw this and thought, Flux capacitor?

https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-develop-groundbreaking-device-for-advanced-quantum-computing/

Extelec, 15 days ago to random

Oh the hypocrisy from Stack Overflow !

Extelec, 18 days ago to random

Quick tip...

If you have drilled a hole in the wrong place, paint around the outside of the hole with yellow paint, and the hole will get magically filled in.

Doesn't work for you ?

No, me neither, but our council seems to think this is the way to fix potholes.

Extelec, 19 days ago to random

Honeysuckle trim and gazebo repair this weekend (if it isn't raining). Started today, managed to clear back so we can again see our #concretedog

Three dogs rest here, because they all loved it under this honeysuckle bush.

Old broken gazebo post needs digging out of the concrete it was set in 20+ years ago, I'm not looking forward to this.

Concrete dog lots of twigs, leaves and some stones with moss.

Extelec, 21 days ago to random

BASIC is 60 years old today.

This was my first BASIC book, although my first actual BASIC was NASCOM Tiny Basic IIRC 1978

Extelec, 21 days ago to random

New project PCBs arrived so I now have a small Pi Picow phone, the Pi-Tele-Cow.

This is a Full stack* develpment. I'm writing or modifying all the code from UDP upwards.

SIP RDP etc..

Currently can make and receive calls via SIP (with errors)

This is being developed alongside the Farnsworths.

*Full Stack refers to my pile of unfinished projects.

Any similarity with any other logos is purely coincidental.

White 3d printed case on top of a circuit diagram. Blue PCB with 15 push buttons 0-9 * # answer and call clear

Extelec, 25 days ago to random

So, Ive been playing with VOIP and I have been stuck with a strange issue I failed to debug for 3+ weeks.

When sending a SIP packet with an SDP payload I always get an error "Error parsing/validating SDP body: Invalid SDP descriptor " from my Asterisk Server

Regardless of payload.

Ive been through the RFC, I've taken logs, Ive tried three versions of Asterisk, nothing worked.

1/2

Extelec, 27 days ago to random

Email:

"Hi: It's great to e-meet you... "

Pass me a bucket...

Extelec, 29 days ago to random

"Your item has been presented to Customs"

OK, so I know the customs do a good job, but my order wasn't intended as a present.

Extelec, 1 month ago to random

I'm being really good, I'm restricting myself to only 20 tabs open, at once, in a browser window.

Of course, there is no limit to the number of windows I can open.

Extelec, 1 month ago to random

If asking for directions to walk to a place was on an Internet technical forum.

"Well I wouldn't start from here"

"Catch a bus, the driver will know"

"Why do you want to go there xxx is better"

"You are using the wrong shoes, try £5000 worth of wellingtons"

"My friend once walked to somewhere else"

"Don't walk trains are better"

"Turn right before you get to the bridge"

"Never heard of xxx "

"Read the f%£%%$g map!"

Extelec, 1 month ago to random

After 18 months, my large Wimshurst is in need of some maintenance. Today's job replace the scraped/damaged sectors.

Part of a Wimshurst machine disk with a badly scraped foil sector.

Extelec, 1 month ago to RaspberryPi

Briefly back onto the Farnsworths. Finished both cases, but one of the displays died, and the replacement sent was wrong. So waiting (again) to get the second one running.

Moved the Strowger script and the test card script onto an Internet facing server. Currently, I can only try the test card and remote loop back.

Details https://www.extremeelectronics.co.uk/farnsworth-warehouse-13-artifact-creation/

#warehouse13 #props #pipicow #pipico #rpi #raspberrypi #hackaday #lasercutting

Farnsworth video phone from Warehouse 13 showing me. Black 3d printed case with gold inlay a knob and a lens like display.

Extelec, 1 month ago to random

I think I've found the problem with me and printers.

They don't understand sarcasm.

Maybe I aught to teach it sarcasm, with a large ball peen sarcasm teaching implement.

Extelec, 1 month ago to random

So, this mornings IT crisis.

Thanks for the new PC, where are all my emails.

*** long conversation ****

What, you mean all the ones in the DELETED folder.... Really,!

FFS....