axwax

@axwax@fosstodon.org

Web Dev / Maker / DJ / Olive Farmer based in 🇪🇸. Ex 🇬🇧/ 🇩🇪. Currently mostly posting about #Audio, #Chickens, #Electronics, #Goats, #Making, #Music, #Nature, #Solar, #Sustainability and #Synths.
(He/him)

More things that interest me: #C64 #DJing #Ecology #Gardening #HipHop #Korg #Microcontrollers #MicroPython #Moog #MusicProduction #Olives #Permaculture #Photography #PHP #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPiPico #RightToRepair #Rpi #Vinyl #fedi22

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axwax, to random

Having spent a few hours catching up on allegations and how concerns and grievances have been handled by admins so far I wonder if it's time for my first to an instance more aligned with my values (and one that lets me emit the occasional toot in 🇩🇪).

Problem is, I don't know where to go 😓

My dream instance has always been chaos.social - any for an along similar lines?

axwax,

Things that are most important to me to find in my local timeline are , ,
, , and and a ton of other things, so an instance predominantly talking about has never been the perfect fit for me, and I've noticed I spend less and less time on my local feed.

axwax,

@joel While it has been perfectly workable for the last 1.5 years, I have definitely held back a lot of German posts because of that rule.

Anyway, that's just a nice-to-have, but I'm just not sure any more if me and admins are still on the same wavelength...

axwax,

@mcdanlj @3DPrintingDad @Beerbruin

Thank you , that's some great detective work!

Funnily that list was partly based on (and massively expanded upon) a makers list I compiled last year, but had abandoned. It's a small (Makers) world 😀

I think I might eventually move to chaos.social as an instance after all, as it might cover my non-making interests just a little bit more and as a bonus is hosted in Germany.

makersocial.online looks like a really cool place though, and @splicer is a great guy!

Triffen, to hydroponics
@Triffen@floss.social avatar

Meanwhile happened. I use the most DIY system possible: bottles, 3d printed inserts that allow refilling, and where I didn't use inserts, there are pieces of disposable straw.
Growing on South side open balcony in 30+C is quite different from grow lights inside they use in the videos. Those plants drink a lot, and some liquid evaporates, so I need to refill a lot and designed and printed a tiny funnel to fit the straw (not pictured).

axwax,

@Triffen

Very cool!

What filament are you using? I assume it gets too hot for PLA?

axwax, to photography

We went to see the nearby tufa channels for this .

These channels are caused by a karst spring whose water has a particularly high lime content.

The carbon dioxide in the water is partially released by the warming water, as well as consumed by algae and moss.

This causes the lime to precipitate and gradually form these structures, a few millimetres every year.

Sadly the water chose a different route halfway down, causing the moss (and channel) to dry up.

View of the top half of a moss-covered tufa channel, approximately 30-50cm tall. In this part the channel is filled with water, which is overflowing in several places. The moss is lush and green and the soil is brown and muddy where the water is finding alternative routes. The tuft channel is surrounded by broad-leaf trees, many of which are covered in moss and/or fungi.
Closeup of a segment of a moss-covered tufa channel. In this segment the channel has dried up completely, causing the moss to turn crispy and of a brownish-green colour.
A moss-covered tufa channel, approximately 60-80cm tall, as seen from below. In this segment the channel has dried up completely, causing the moss to turn crispy and of a brownish-green colour. The channel is surrounded by leaves from the surrounding broad-leaf trees.

solderandchaos, to random
@solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk avatar

Avoid cccamp fomo by going to Norway. They have cool stuff.

A brown and orange and white keyboard with round keys that matches the machine in the previous photo

axwax,

@North @solderandchaos

That is one sexy keyboard!

geekmomprojects, to random
@geekmomprojects@mastodon.social avatar

My LED Orb project that I wrote up for @makemagazine is currently on the website with no paywall at https://makezine.com/projects/orb-sessed-led-sphere/ if anyone feels like tackling a fiddly, challenging, time-consuming project with a really cool end result! I'm very proud of the design as well as the very high pun-to-word-count ratio in the article.

axwax,

@geekmomprojects @makemagazine

Orb my gourd, you are the undisputed queen of orb puns!

axwax,

@geekmomprojects @makemagazine

I certainly had a ball reading the article!

diyelectromusic, to SynthDIY
@diyelectromusic@mastodon.social avatar

Wow RaKit kits are so wonderfully packaged and presented :)

https://www.rakits.co.uk/

axwax,

@diyelectromusic That is a lovely aesthetic and presentation!

vicgrinberg, to cooking
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social avatar

Yotam 's Chermoulah Aubergine with bulgur:

▶️ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/12/chermoula-aubergine-bulgar-recipe-ottolenghi

It does look complicated, but it's actually a super straightforward recipe that looks and tastes like something that takes infinetely more time and skill to make. Also perhaps the easier to photograph food of all I regularly cook 😅

Also perfect for this super stressful and full day at work.

axwax,

@vicgrinberg

Yum! I'm always up for new aubergine based dishes, and this looks delicious!

rasterweb, (edited ) to art
@rasterweb@mastodon.social avatar

I'm opening a gallery this week. Sure, it's in my front yard, and it can only handle small art... but the Free Little Art Gallery is (nearly) open!

Let me know if you want to contribute any art.

axwax,

@rasterweb

Oh wow, I love this! 😍

axwax, to fediverse

I'm super chuffed that I've just found the adorable @smolrobots on the !
(I'm a little bit late to the party)

Go and give them a follow, they could deal with some - and you may need some more in your life too!

On a side note: Having beautiful on images has the nice side effect that unconventional Mastodon media browsers like mine get to display them in all their glory (in addition to making them accessible to more hoomans).

axwax,

@recantha @smolrobots

Thanks!

Yes, I'm using the Mastodon library to grab media posts from a personal timeline (as I've done here), federated timeline, or a hashtag (uncomment as needed).

I've got a few more details/examples in this thread: https://fosstodon.org/@axwax/109387591987178692

and the code can be found at https://github.com/axwax/MastoInky

Let me know how you get on if you do try it - I haven't touched it since last November, so the library may have changed since then!

axwax,

@andypiper @recantha

One of these days I'd really like to attempt to replace the Pi Zero with a and redoing this in .

I did have a quick go last autumn trying to modify 's "Inky Frame" code to make it work with my "Inky Developer", but couldn't get it to work at the time.

Iirc I somehow got lost between the InkyFrame driver and the PicoGraphics library.

@gadgetoid, would you know perhaps if anyone's used the InkyDeveloper with MicroPython succesfully?

mxtthxw, to random
@mxtthxw@mxtthxw.art avatar

Don’t ya wish your instance was hot like me?
Don’t ya wish your instance was a freak like me?

Don’t ya? :80spc:

axwax,

@mxtthxw

Could you teach us, or would you have to charge?

Wait, wrong track!

geekmomprojects, to FiberArts
@geekmomprojects@mastodon.social avatar

Made my second sling bag in two days. This one is a "half-moon" bag I made following a YouTube video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mub9Kbs3LE) It was surprisingly straightforward to sew, and a good opportunity to use my recent impulse purchase of floral canvas fabric (it was on sale!) The only feature I don't love is that the lining is finished with binding on the inside, but no one else will see that part.

axwax,

@geekmomprojects That's a very cool fabric (and resulting bag)!

blitzcitydiy, to random
@blitzcitydiy@mastodon.social avatar

tomorrow @ecken and i will be on the hackster cafe with @alexglow to chat about a few recent and upcoming projects that use the @adafruit rp2040 prop-maker feather and

https://www.youtube.com/live/uV7dRsMhHsk?feature=share

axwax,

@blitzcitydiy @ecken @alexglow @adafruit

That was a super fun interview with some of my favourite makers, and I absolutely 💙 Ad(or)a(ble)bot! 🤖

axwax, to random

A quick one for , taken in Passau, Germany in 2019.

Private
axwax,

@AlgoCompSynth @bandcampfriday @kilamanzego

Oh wow, that's a great EP, might have to grab that as well!

diyelectromusic, to Mario
@diyelectromusic@mastodon.social avatar

There is an awful lot of musicianship and humour in this video by Jared Scott.
Oh, and a cat.

It so deserves a watch :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8hElfJqWVw

axwax,

@diyelectromusic

That's very cute!

diyelectromusic, to Arduino
@diyelectromusic@mastodon.social avatar

Hacking about with a PSS-680 using an Arduino to access additional synth parameters over MIDI - in this case changing the sIne table used for the FM carrier operator.

https://diyelectromusic.wordpress.com/2023/08/02/arduino-pss-680-synth-editor-part-1/

axwax,

@diyelectromusic Wow, great work!

diyelectromusic, to Arduino
@diyelectromusic@mastodon.social avatar

Here is an Arduino MIDI interface/debug shield/monitor that makes working with MIDI a little easier (as you can still Serial.print!).

https://diyelectromusic.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/simple-midi-serial-monitor-part-3/

axwax,

@diyelectromusic Ooh, DIN and TRS MIDI on the same board - nice!

axwax, to random

I finally got round to put together a simple based MIDI/audio setup to play with some of those brilliant experiments by @todbot .

In this clip I'm checking out polyphony and a couple of sounds using a Pico Lipo hooked up to their Pico Audio Pack and @adafruit's MIDI FeatherWing (via a dodgy and bodgy DIY adapter).

His code can be found at https://github.com/todbot/qtpy_synth (I think I based my experiment on hwtest7).

Atop a wooden desk an Arturia KeyStep 37 is connected to a Pimoroni Pico Lipo board with MIDI input and i2s audio output. I plug the MCU and a speaker into a power bank and proceed to play a little bassline, followed by a few chords on a couple of different sounds. In the process I adjust 4 knobs on the keyboard which are MIDI mapped to attack, decay, release and wavetable select.

axwax,

@diyelectromusic @todbot @adafruit

Very nice! - that would certainly be a vast improvement over my abomination of an adaptor!

Now, if it had another 3-4 slots for moar Pico Packs / PiCowbells (and for bonus points an onboard i2s DAC) I'd be super excited... 😉

s, to random
@s@sd.ai avatar

on repeat in my house: Short and Round by The Bug Club. We're all fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI00U-eb64

axwax,

@s Haha, love it!

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