John TNo #mayke today, between a 16 km walk, a 5 yr old's birthday party, and a hailstorm, it has been a lot.
Fortunately #mayke is forgiving, and I'll leave you with what mother nature herself made today.
zoolRevisit to the esp32 / MEMS mic for today's #mayke - got some FFT running on it with ulab, which is like a pared-back numpy+scipy for micropython. Shown on the tiny screen that came with the PiHut advent calendar
Results are impressionistic, responsive to audio but also to... unknown factors which probably include my chaos wiring
Slightly motivated to shift this to the Tildagon for its colourful display and ring of LEDs, but not today :)
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concretedogA little #repair type #mayke this morning. Nettles collar needed a replacement velcro section. Nice job for the Pfaff #sewing machine.
For today's #mayke, I re-made the cover for the #xteink #x4 using some scrap fabric we had around. This one has the built-in magnets to keep it closed, which seem to work well.
The second attempt at making mitered corners certainly went better than the last one. Much learning had here!
Rik KMI’ve been really enjoying everyone’s Mayke’s so I thought I’d share mine.
I turned a broken Vivitar 28mm f2.8 wide angle lens into a DIY tilt-shift lens for my Nikon D610. Via a specially designed 3D printed Nikon F adapter ring and a section of old bicycle inner- tube.
Ok the lora yoyo machines work, at least when they are close together! I replaced the 4 pin RGB led with some circles of leds I had around #mayke 8
Missed some #mayke days this week (but that's fine! there is no fayle)
Longer project: having recklessly signed up to play the surdo 2 in a couple of low-pressure, early season samba performances, i need a leg pad so i can dance or march along with a big drum, avoid bruising knees already buggered by martial arts and middle age
The vision for this is sort-of soft cricket pads, attached to the white trousers from my old karate gi. But also need a removable version for regular practise days, and to figure out where the padding is really needed
In the spirit of @jarkman 's code of "make it shonky, then make it work, then make it nice if you want to" this is v1, a strip of blanket, folded over a scrap of chopped up duvet cover. Like a wrap skirt that only wraps half of one leg. Work in progress :)
For today's #mayke, I think I'm pretty much done with the LFO, and I can confirm it plays nicely with other modular stuff (like the Music Thing Workshop System here).
Just a few final touches and then I can start designing a board.
John Honniball2026-05-07 #mayke 7: soldering some bright red sockets to a blue solderable breadboard PCB. Wiring up the sockets in a parallel bus arrangement. Arduino Nano for scale
