stargirl,
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What's up, peeps? I've been so bad at keeping up with mastodon- what cool stuff have y'all been up to?

Nixie,
@Nixie@nixie.name avatar

@stargirl Made a flexy, redesigned some boxes and made a starlamp:

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stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@Nixie oh this is so cool!

buzzyrobin,
@buzzyrobin@chaos.social avatar

@stargirl Hi / welcome back!

Continuing work on Ye Olde Tangara (now with Less Bulky Case), kitbashing together a mini HDMI monitor, fixing my old set of Logitech speakers to not be so damn bassy, swapping my new-old thinkpad over to USB-C power, having a big nap, uhhhh …

A palm-sized HDMI display with a 3D-printed case styled after an old beige CRT monitor. The STL was a big modification of a ‘286 Raspberry Pi’ project on thingiverse.
The guts of a Logitech X-530 bass speaker, an arrow pointing to an SMD resistor on the board I needed to swap out to make the bass knob actually, y’know, turn down the bass.
A Thinkpad T460, internals visible, showing a USB-C trigger-board placed where the power socket used to be. A 3D-printed block keeps the board in place, along with an amount of hot glue. (@jacqueline did this one for me; I was too scared)

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@buzzyrobin It's been so fun following the Tangara project!

esk,
@esk@hachyderm.io avatar

@stargirl waiting on an oshpark delivery for v0.0.1-hyperalpha of the middle layer of my miku module

unlambda,
@unlambda@hachyderm.io avatar

@stargirl I took a cool picture of the eclipse.

https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/112237615866147904

Also picked up a Synthstrom Deluge and loaded Gene Belcher's fart sample into it. Now to actually learn how to make noises other than fart sounds with it.

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@unlambda Perfect.

jpm,
@jpm@aus.social avatar

@stargirl hand-placing 0.4 pitch BGAs. Not recommended, but a 32-pin GPIO expander in gumstick form factor is the prize: https://aus.social/@jpm/112256125215626814

light,
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@stargirl Starting a software consulting/contracting business!

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@light how's that going? God I hate dealing with taxes on consulting work.

wirehead,
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@stargirl Building a Voron 0 ( https://www.wirewd.com/make/voron0v2 ) which has devolved into a fastidious ansible+docker install of the Klipper stack and probably some rework on a broken SKR Pico so I can make a thirst-trap photo of what a 3D printer control board ought to look like and also probably a "guess how easy it is to make a Klipper-Expander like board on the breadboard" blog and if I'm lucky, maybe it'll be working this weekend.

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@wirehead dockerizing klipper! wild!!

oleksiy,
@oleksiy@sonomu.club avatar

@stargirl hey!
I'm working on 3 new eurorack modules... well, I'm trying to limit myself to just 3, to stay at least somehow focused, but the ideas keep coming 😅

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@oleksiy that's a lot! What are you making?

oleksiy,
@oleksiy@sonomu.club avatar

@stargirl there'll be a trigger/gate recorder, a matrix router with a twist, and a CV processor (which is actually a collab with another modules manufacturer). all are in pretty early stage atm, so I don't have pics or demos to share yet :)

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@oleksiy Good luck!!!

MLE_online,
@MLE_online@social.afront.org avatar

@stargirl Hey!!

I'm in my second semester of ceramics and I built an e-bike out of trash

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@MLE_online I can't wait for the sequel where you build a 737 out of trash.

.... wait.

c0dec0dec0de,
@c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io avatar

@MLE_online @stargirl Emily is the friend talking about repairing their bike in the story about why Mastodon is doomed because we all say she did a good job and it’s cool instead of buying things.

MLE_online,
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@c0dec0dec0de @stargirl how will this place stay running if cannondale isn't serving ads to people who liked my post about the new cannondale gear the company sent me to try out on my youtube channe?

Dtl,
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@stargirl welcome back.
Just fixing old radios - 1958 vintage in this case.
https://mastodon.social/@Dtl/112231508607021643

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@Dtl beautiful! The oldest thing that's been on my bench was from the 70s.

gnarf,
@gnarf@hachyderm.io avatar

@stargirl Playing around with optical modulators. It's switching between opaque and transparent to transmit a binary "Hello World". I want to try it out for some optical communications with drones

A PCB with a large round hole that contains a little glass-like structure. It flickers between transparent and opaque

thejpster,
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@stargirl I just taught my Rust based Disk Operating System to let applications open files and read from them. Now I want to let them write to the audio device.

stargirl,
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@thejpster nice! will you be adopting the madcap unix "everything-is-a-file" metaphor?

thejpster,
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@stargirl in the absence of any better ideas. My audio device is called “audio:”. It has ioctls for setting sample rate.

thejpster,
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stargirl,
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@thejpster heck yeah, that's awesome!

gsuberland,
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@stargirl started working on my homebrew kernel/OS again, writing a slab allocator for kmalloc.

also building mk2 versions of the CO2 sensor boards for EMF Camp safety infrastructure, fixing a bunch of issues and adding a buck-boost to give steady 5V to the sensors regardless of how crappy the USB supplies are.

stargirl,
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@gsuberland busy bee!

gsuberland,
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@stargirl oh and kicking off a research project at work involving DRAM interposers, which is gonna be a fun challenge.

jonbro,
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@stargirl learned how to sculpt miniatures, and finally reopened the synthesizer project and moved it forward. Then I opened a second synthesizer project and also moved that one forward!

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@jonbro what's your synth project?

jonbro,
@jonbro@friend.camp avatar

@stargirl a fuckin millstone :D

https://diode.zone/w/eNFBKVVoKKoJFXz9gJ2Xhk

this is the most recent demo that I have online for it. its moved on a bit since then, I think it looks even nicer now.

its a rp2040 based portable groovebox with every idea I could cram in it.

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@jonbro that's amazing!!!

jasoncoon,
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@stargirl we've missed you, welcome back!
I'm still trying to pack as many tiny LEDs in as small as space as possible, and experimenting with different infill patterns in 3D printed diffusers:
https://leds.social/@jasoncoon/112209644003812568

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@jasoncoon Amazing work!!

Oakdevtech,
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@stargirl ya know, making boards. Trying to make this maker business work. 🤷‍♂️

stargirl,
@stargirl@hachyderm.io avatar

@Oakdevtech of course, of course. I know that grind well. What are you excited about?

Oakdevtech,
@Oakdevtech@mastodon.social avatar

@stargirl right now RPiano 🤓 making electronic music is good fun

stargirl,
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@Oakdevtech I saw that over on Elon's site! It looks so cute!

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