Show threadLisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)1d ago

#MakeShitMonday, #crochet edition, in which I knock off another WIP *and* a side project!! 🎉

I finally got the shrug body finished, blocked, and seamed - put the picot edging on in the car on the way to an event this weekend, just in time to sit in an over-air-conditioned conference center all day Saturday... 😁

(Bonus - @mbroome says "it's really easy to find you in the crowd now!" 😄)

Also I have been wanting to make myself a pair of slippers for almost a year now - got the yarn, made a demo pair, gave them to Mom, then made a pair for @mbroome, then got distracted... So I banged those out just in time for the weekend as well. Yay, warm feet! 🥿🧶💖

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Show threaddr_a1d ago
@cannibal I got the code done to drive my old paper cutter, letting me make the feathers and wing bones. #MakeShitMonday
Cannibal 1d ago

It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!

I picked up a new restoration project and started tearing into it.

Show me what you got!

dr_aApr 7

Back on the feather phase of the project. I’ve got python driving an old silhouette cutter to make the feathers.

#MakeShitMonday

Show threadLisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)Apr 7

#makeShitMonday, #crochet edition, in which I finally finish one of my WIPs! 🎉

I stalled out on the hat for my BIL trying to figure out how to attach it to the underlying wool beanie - the amount of expansion required to get to the dimensions of his ginormous head meant that just sewing it with regular thread wouldn't stretch enough. I tried a couple different approaches unsuccessfully, and then complained about it to my sister... Who sent me some thread-gauge super-stretchy elastic string she happened to have, and it worked really well!

So I pinned the daylights out of it finally got it all stitched together with enough stretch. Unfortunately the elastic was "clear" - more like white - and while I mostly managed to bury it in the crochet stitches, it showed through on the outside in a couple of spots... So I touched it up with a blue Sharpie. 😇 (I didn't sharpie it on the inside, though, because I didn't want the marker running off and leaving little black marks on his forehead.)

Feels so good to finally have this done and off to its intended recipient... I hope he enjoys wearing it as much as I've enjoyed making it! 🥰

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dr_aApr 7

Time for more #MakeShitMonday

Got distracted by a future possibility...

Show threadLisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)Mar 31

#MakeShitMonday, #crochet edition...

Got the shrug mostly done! Tried it on for size and it's about right, so I just need to finish the sleeve ends, block it, and then seam it and add the decorative edging around the middle. Hopefully I'll have enough yarn left for all those #$&%! picots...

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Show threaddr_aMar 30
@cannibal Working on a small sculpture. #makeshitmonday
Cannibal Mar 30

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cannibal/116305217277234046

It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes!

I learned how to make the hat I usually wear. I need to adjust the shape of the next one but I learned a lot.

Show me what you got!

Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)Mar 24

#makeShitMonday, #meshtastic edition, in which we made #mesh #radio connections... in a #cave!!

@mbroome and I just completed a weeklong vertical cave rescue certification course, complete with a full-day simulated rescue scenario at the end. Standard comms for cave rescue is over wired field phones - but for this one, we had mesh radios all the way down to one of the main caverns that needed vertical rigging for the rescue.

I was Entrance Control (tracks who goes in / out of the cave, relays comms from the cave to Incident Command on the surface) and had my new MeshPocket on their dark mesh, based on [Vangelis]( https://github.com/semper-ad-fundum/vangelis). @mbroome was on comms *in* the cave - and also had my little Muzi R1 mesh radio.

It's definitely not ready to be primary comms - the radios struggle with low-airspace passages and corkscrews - but it's pretty darn close! Need to add some wired bridges like [the Flamingo project](https://github.com/rbreesems/flamingo) - that project has a really [neat video](https://youtu.be/R3LtLcnrpAk) from a test in Tumbling Rock...

Mesh radio is definitely a new paradigm for cave rescue, and I think doing it in parallel with existing field-phone tech will need separate operators. I had a pretty comfy setup with a field phone to the cave in one ear and an FRS radio to Incident Command on the surface in the other - which was fine, they're both auditory processing and push-to-talk so the only challenge was making sure I pushed the right button each time. 😁 Taking notes was additional cognitive load, and adding mesh comms (visual processing / type to talk) pushed it well beyond anything I could have tracked in a real emergency!

Which is great to know in advance, and I really do think that when this tech matures, it will make a solid replacement for the field phones and comms wire that's been used for the past several decades...

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