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mightyspaceman

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tech/science nerd interested in #linux, #spaceexploration, #electronics, #code and #engineering

I boost a lot of cat pictures

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mightyspaceman, to kicad
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Optical illusion I found while using KiCad...

all the lines in this picture are straight. But, presumably because of the hashed keep-out zone, the outline of the ESP32 looks tilted. Is there a name for this?

mightyspaceman, to random
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IT'S ALIVE

My first PCB design which I've forgot to actually...yknow...test in the months after I made it. I did not expect it to work!

mightyspaceman,
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And the buttons! the buttons work too!

mightyspaceman,
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no hardware issues, only thing left is to mess with software

Unixbigot, to random
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I see the Project Hail Mary movie is going ahead, with Ryan Gosling as Grace. No word on who plays his partner; i’m genuinely torn over whether it should be Stallone or Johnson.

mightyspaceman,
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@Unixbigot I've been meaning to re-read the book. Read it from the library originally but then bought a copy; its been sitting on my shelf since then... I'll give it another go after I finish dune messiah.

cos, to Travel

Uneventfully home from 2.5 weeks visiting family and travelling a bit in Thailand during its hottest time of the year - 40 degrees or over every day up in the North East where we visited Buriram and, at long last, Khon Kaen; high 30s in Bangkok every day. I’m looking forward to jeans and a jacket, once more. Photos will be up soon for wider public consumption - I’ve got a bit of processing to do of the ones from the “nice” camera.

#travel #Thailand #Bangkok #SuvarnabhumiAirport #Airbus350 #Hipstamatic #sun #hot #waiting

mightyspaceman,
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@cos thought I saw sunspots, then I realised it was just window dirt.

Nice photo!

mightyspaceman, to space
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Roscosmos Angara A5 flight test, T-4:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0H_b0Oi25I

bikenut, to ComputerScience
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If you teach or and use as your please join the conversation requesting restoration of file preview for common programming languages. Instructors can no longer annotate student submissions. It has been working for 5 years and now Instructure claims it’s not supported.

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Java-source-files-in-SpeedGrader-no-longer-showing/

mightyspaceman,
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@bikenut I have to use canvas for school, no code previews required but...as a system, it does kinda suck. Like having teachers have to use markdown should be an option, not a must...it just ends up with really messy page structures between modules that are hard to navigate and unique to each teacher...

mightyspaceman, to random
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HackRF one ordered

mightyspaceman,
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found a really good deal on it
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006728500762.html

mightyspaceman, to linux
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Yeah!!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/linux-on-the-desktop-breaks-4-for-the-first-time-on-statcounter/

mightyspaceman,
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@ropexu same :archlinux:

mightyspaceman, to random
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Voltage drives current but...current also drives voltage?

mightyspaceman, to random
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is this a partial lunar eclipse seen from the weather satellite?

mightyspaceman, to random
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Listening to radio with grass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI

mightyspaceman, to random
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wtf

mightyspaceman,
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@PictoPulse356 100 percent IQ

mightyspaceman, to space
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Sunrise over the (pacific?) ocean, captured by Himawari-8

mightyspaceman, to random
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Every now and then I just forget that Fn lock exists

mightyspaceman, to hamradio
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Receiving from the ISS shouldn't need a yagi, right?

mightyspaceman,
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@VE7WYC only really just beginning to get into ham. Studying for a license, yes

mightyspaceman, to Electronics
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Why are through-hole MCX connectors in particular so darn expensive, like seriously, $11 plus shipping for a tiny part? I just want to repair my SDR, $11 is more than half of what I paid for

mightyspaceman,
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@adistuder ended up going with this, arrived today. pretty much identical to the original, soldering on now

mightyspaceman,
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@adistuder it was a complete and utter disaster. pads stripped. flux everywhere.

mightyspaceman, to random
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@warkolm finally getting around to completing my allsky cam. Just a quick question: I'm getting a bunch of timeout errors with the https://github.com/AllskyTeam/allsky codebase. Apparently it's quite common for ASI120s. Did you have any issues and if so, what was the fix?

mightyspaceman,
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@warkolm trying to work out how to get the camera working on the pi...the camera is 2.0, the pi has 2.0 ports, but...it somehow detects it as 3.0 even when in those ports?

so far I've tried the allsky software that is just called 'allsky' and indi-allsky but they both don't work. I'm going to give the global meteor network OS a try probably today.

If none of that works, I have a backup plan that I just realised I could do, involving a very old laptop and a lot of messing with box placement...

mightyspaceman,
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@warkolm it would be funny if I just chained random adapters and it worked. A possibility...

mightyspaceman, to space
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Why Spacecraft Are Using These Crazy Routes To The Moon - Weak Stability and Ballistic Capture - Scott Manley
https://youtu.be/WVrWcbyOmxY

mightyspaceman,
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@Powerfromspace1 huh?

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