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blitzcitydiy

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She/her. Music technology, knitting, all forms of media and cats. Currently making, writing and videoing for Adafruit. It's possible that the average person would feel that I watch too much TV.

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gvy_dvpont, to random
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How can you be a grown person learning how to play the saxophone in a building with 16 units. be serious neighbor

blitzcitydiy,
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@gvy_dvpont when i was in the 5th grade i chose saxophone to try and learn thru school and my mom made me practice in the basement. i did not learn the saxophone

blitzcitydiy,
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@gvy_dvpont the sax failure was more of a public school system failure. i've had many successful musical rehearsals in basements. if anything a basement is ideal

blitzcitydiy, to random
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i love love love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqCVWZeIb5g

blitzcitydiy, to knitting
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Another blanket square done. Harriet approves

gvy_dvpont, to random
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Still unpacking from Open Hardware Summit (both brain-wise and clothing-wise). I had an impossible amount of fun and was so glad to meet so many of you IRL.

If you missed it, here's my talk:
https://youtu.be/41qIQzLS304?si=maed84rj14VoYxPA

blitzcitydiy,
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@gvy_dvpont your talk was excellent, really enjoyed it

blitzcitydiy, to FiberArts
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Cassette tape zipper pouch, pattern by Lysa Flower (http://www.lysaflower.com). First time doing paper piecing which was really fun

An unzipped zipper pouch that looks like a cassette tape. The inside is lined with a small floral print fabric

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I’ve had a cricut for about 2 years and the rubber rollers started to dry out and get super wonky. I’d been dreading opening it up to do the replacement but I finally did it and it worked great.

Dried up decrepit rubber rollers from a cricut machine. Behind them are new ones installed on the roller bar
A disassembled cricut machine. The housing is removed
The reassembled cricut machine with the new rubber rollers installed

blitzcitydiy,
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I normally prefer an article for repairs but this video was actually really excellent to follow along with: https://youtu.be/6gtmq7uYPb4?si=Xa1mJYGWd_jBOpZQ

blitzcitydiy, to FiberArts
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I took a day to do some sewing, which I haven’t done in a while. I fixed a beanie full of holes, took up some curtains for a friend and make these cat mug rugs with cutoffs from a quilt I made a few years ago

A close up of a scrappy cat mug rug. The fabric is mostly small floral prints
A close up of a scrappy cat mug rug. The fabrics are mainly floral prints

blitzcitydiy, to knitting
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Finished a blanket block today

A close up corner of a knitted blanket block. There are textured seed, checkerboard and bobble stitches in ecru yarn with multi color flecks

blitzcitydiy, to random
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Plugging in a usb keyboard to the usb host featherwing. Arduino code takes the incoming key inputs and sends them over BLE

A small usb keyboard plugged into a usb host featherwing. The featherwing is on a doubler breakout with an esp32-s3 tft feather. Text that is being typed on the keyboard is showing up in a text editor (“hello world”). The keyboard is being transmitted wirelessly over Bluetooth

blitzcitydiy, to random
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Winnie and Harriet in their arm chair bunk bed last night

stoneymonster, to random
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Since starting playing piano again (after a long enough break the break could have kids in high school), I’ve mostly re-learned Moonlight Sonata (first two movements), Debussy’s Reverie, and learned 1st Gymnopaedie and Linus and Lucy (minus the jazz parts which elude me). What should I try next at this level? I’ve though about Claire de Lune, but I think that may be beyond me.

blitzcitydiy,
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@stoneymonster not sure if you're a twin peaks fan but recently i've been enjoying playing a few of the songs from it (main theme and audrey's dance). they're fairly straight forward technique wise but sound interesting

blitzcitydiy,
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@stoneymonster but also i feel like based on the pieces you listed you could tackle claire de lune. i remember playing it around the time that i learned moonlight sonata

DrFerrous, to random
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Completed pre-therapy questionaires. Wow, I have a lot I need to talk with someone about. Maybe I should not have waited this long. :blobfoxpatsad:

blitzcitydiy,
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@DrFerrous starting therapy is hard and you need to be ready. have faith that you are reaching out at the time that is right for you 💜

blitzcitydiy, to random
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we have once again been fooled by false spring

MLE_online, to random
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My office spent almost $2,000 on a pan-tilt-zoom iot camera for streaming earthquake press conferences, and it's never been used because it got infected with the Mirai botnet malware after they connected it to the internet.

I don't even see anything in the manual for how to do a factory reset so the camera can be fixed and used again.

blitzcitydiy,
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@MLE_online all of your j0rb posts bring me right back to my days at my previous higher ed employer. we had so many situations where the tl;dr was a ton of money sunk into a piece of tech that was non functional for whatever reason

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I used the scrollsaw to make some pawns with compound cuts. No sanding or finish yet. I’m hoping to make a full set eventually

A hand holding a wooden chess pawn piece

blitzcitydiy, to knitting
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Scarf I recently finished for a friend

blitzcitydiy, to random
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ironically i sound most happy and awake for a voiceover when i am incredibly tired and grumpy

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I replaced the display in my mom’s stove this morning. It had been flashing and freezing randomly for about a year. This is apparently a fairly common problem with Samsung stoves based on what I found online.

An LED stove display that is blinking and acting glitchy

blitzcitydiy,
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The display is plugged into the motherboard with a cable bundle and is really easy to access. Replacement parts are easily available too, ifixit even has them: https://www.ifixit.com/products/de07-00129a-samsung-range-display-board

blitzcitydiy,
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And here is the stove with the new display. My mom is thrilled she doesn’t have to worry about it fully breaking anymore

A stove with an LED display showing the time. It is not glitching, unlike the first GIF. A person turns on the oven and then turns it off to demonstrate that the display is working

blitzcitydiy,
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@MLE_online @blitzcitydiy super easy. I just had to take off the back panel (5 screws), unplug it from the motherboard, pop it out from the plastic frame and then pop in the new one and plug it in

blitzcitydiy,
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@MLE_online @vxo @blitzcitydiy yeah same, I rock an apartment special. A single red LED tells me if it’s on or not

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