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andypiper

@andypiper@macaw.social

Tech speaker, #DevRel @ #MastodonAPI joinmastodon.org, communities person 💗💜💙 accidental plotter artist. I do things with code, and tinker with gadgets #3DPrinting #MicroPython #PlotterArt #LEGO #BoardGames #DoctorWho … I’m an ambassador for https://hachyderm.io/@openuk, one-third of a weekly #Podcast 🎧https://botsin.space/@gamesatwork_biz & help with a #Hackspace meetup 🛠️@makeroni

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andypiper, to random
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“Picade Max” 🕹️ sounds like something I would like to review 👀

andypiper, to Starwars
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“A Jedi's strength flows from the Force, as this water it does.” quick stop at the former LucasArts building in San Francisco!

concretedog, to random
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Hey @badge @emf I'm just laying out a hexspansion template in @FreeCAD and wondering about dimensions of the slots at the side of the connector? I can't see the info on this drawing.. https://tildagon.badge.emfcamp.org/hexpansions/

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@concretedog @badge @emf @FreeCAD sorry I've been in the air a lot today - erm - I can point you at my STLs which are based on the SVGs from the emf repo? That's the best I can do though. https://www.printables.com/model/826094-emf-tildagon-hexpansion-template

andypiper, to random
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I got sad that the GUI app for converting images for the BrachioGraph that I was using uses PySimpleGUI, and that that library went to a closed source model, so I made a new-but-similar thing using PySides https://github.com/andypiper/brachiograph-converter-gui

andypiper,
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@scruss yeah, something Pico-ish is on my ideas list... I think there's a micro:Bit variant somewhere.

andypiper,
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@scruss yep, I bought the kit a while ago but haven't done anything with it yet. The projects box overflows...

andypiper, to random
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Day 3 of was lovely, and some folks liked my recent piece “The Château” produced using DrawingBotV3 and the Roland DXY-1100, which made me very happy 😊 one more day of the show - and then, I’m heading to California for a week! ✈️

andypiper, to random
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OK! Thanks everyone for all the EMF advice - I totally had not looked at the ticket transfer thing (aka I was, indeed, holding it wrong). Ta.

andypiper, to random
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One issue with the schedule, AFAICT - if I hold multiple tickets, the other ticketed attendees don't have an account on the website with which to heart the talks / feed the scheduling algorithm. Am I holding it wrong?

andypiper, to random
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Framing and hanging art involves far more mathematics than I like 🤔

In other news, opens this afternoon at 2pm and @forgeandcraft has an open studio Thursday-Sunday!

andypiper, to random
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Sure feels like is speed-running Marvel’s comic book storylines as it heads into the first season finale! There’s a LOT that happened in just a few episodes. 🤯

grajohnt, to random
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Just got the final version of my boards.

The rainbow will be the most common - come find me to get one! (Trades preferred, but not required).

andypiper,
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@grajohnt WANT

mrpjevans, to RaspberryPi
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BEHOLD THE BLINKENLIGHTS!

PiDP-10 PCB with ALL THE LEDs flashing away

andypiper,
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@mrpjevans ALL HAIL TEH BLINKENLICHTEN

easytarget, to Fonts
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Working on a project that uses a small display?

Disappointed by a lack of for them?

Presenting:
https://github.com/easytarget/microPyEZfonts

A hundred fonts in various flavors and sizes, plus a small and simple to use font writer to go with them.

andypiper,
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@easytarget ooooh this could be v useful, thank you.

andypiper, to random
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So, a shorter version of my history of computer art and being and accidental maker talk is on the slate for ! https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/302-where-is-the-art-a-history-in-technology

tonyarnold, to random
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Unless Apple is about to announce that you can choose to install macOS on iPads at WWDC (or a huge overhaul of iPadOS), the pricing of the new iPads is pretty wild.

(US prices shown)

andypiper,
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@tonyarnold @thomasfuchs I priced one up earlier, and I literally said the same thing to my friend about it. Even with a trade-in, nope, not worth it to me - unless I can suddenly use macOS on the iPad when I want to switch contexts.

andypiper, to random
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Co-authored an update from the @MastodonEngineering team with my friend @renchap - a sneak peek at what is coming in 4.3 (and looking ahead from there). We'll aim to make these updates a regular feature for the blog. Let us know what you think! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2024/

andypiper,
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... as with many large software projects, there's a balance between choosing features to implement, keeping things stable, and fixing known or emergent issues. We have to make decisions about the scope for a release, so there will always be some things that need to wait until the next time. We want to try to share what we've been working on in a more consumable format, more often.

andypiper,
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@rzeta0 thanks for pointing this out - I'd taught myself to use the time (which I also used on Twitter) to get to the permalink, and hadn't appreciated a) that it works differently elsewhere and b) the actual UX expectation around being able to grab a permalink. Good point. As mentioned, we do have to find time to address, but thanks for surfacing further.

sophiegarrett, to random
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EMF-shoes 2024 are GO. Null Sector ain't ready for me.

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andypiper,
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@sophiegarrett aaaahhhhh ⚡

andypiper, to random
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@j12t hi!

andypiper, to random
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Part of today's output - "Imagined Siliconia" - Roland , A4 Bristol white with Uniball Unipin 003 black fineliner. Considering putting it up on shop.forgeandcraft.co.uk 🤞🏻

yelof, to 3DPrinting
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I've had so many issues with my Anycubic resin 3d printer, and for this and other reasons, have been considering an FDM/filament printer.

Is it fair to say that most printers in the $150-300 range are crap? I just saw on one of her LED necklace tutorials that @geekmomprojects uses the Prusa MINI+, and it seems like a good number of makers speak highly of that brand, so maybe that's where I'll look. But any tips on where else to look/stay away from are appreciated!

andypiper,
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@yelof @geekmomprojects the Prusa MINI+ is an excellent machine!

andypiper, to random
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I wanted to find something I knew I'd seen on Mastodon a few weeks ago - @ivory for the win, I'd bookmarked the post, and was able to search my bookmarks 🙏🏻 exactly the kind of thing I've wanted to be able to do with my social channels for a long time.

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@skyfaller @ivory I think it's a feature that Ivory implemented in the client, yes - it is very handy.

In my past life, I was excited about Twitter's bookmarks API and the opportunity to build some interesting integrations to e.g. search, tag and organise your own content. I really see the things folks build using different APIs as useful "value-adds" to platforms that should be embraced a lot more often.

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