Holy shit, i did it, lol. It looks terrible, but it works.
For people who haven't been keeping up with this project, I've been doing ceramics for a couple years now, and recently people kept tagging me in posts about a European feminist hacker collective that was making circuit boards out of court they dug out of the ground and fired in a campfire.
After having an epiphany about some experimental copper ceramics glazes i made last year, i thought i would see if i could solder to them, and i found that i could.
Sooo ... I made a stamp and stamped out some really basic boards for an astable multivibrator (two blinky lights) circuit. I filled the recessed traces with copper powder and had them fired in our pottery kiln.
Now i have ceramic circuit boards.
A twelve-year-old redesigned safety for the New England cotton industry. A man stole her work; she buried him in court with blueprints and witnesses over sixteen days. She held 27 patents, co-founded an all-women car company at 74, and died worth $275.05. Margaret Knight, the ghost of American invention.
We just made a payment… without the internet.
No WiFi. No LTE. No cloud.
Just MeshCore.
Built at a dual-use hackathon — works normally, survives when infrastructure fails.
Offline-first = resilience ⚡
Kijkaan, een recensie van Kaalstaart op Nieuwsplein33: https://www.nieuwsplein33.nl/nieuws/4028669/drijvende-musea-van-kaalstaart-met-opberghoes-olifant-en-hoe-klinkt-een-aarde-zonder-dieren
Dit weekend met de vloot in Wageningen: https://kaalstaart.nl
Voor het veertiende jaar op rij laat kunstfestival Kaalstaart ons nadenken over de wereld door middel van kunst en wetenschap. Dit jaar kon je filosoferen over het geluid van mens en natuur: hoe klinkt de toekomst als er geen dieren meer zijn? In het industriële decor van de Insteekhaven in Amersfoort dreven afgelopen paasweekend drie historische binnenvaartschepen als podia voor kunst en wetenschap.
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Here's the direct link to the anti-enshitification policy doc (as a pdf) by the Norwegian Consumer Council: "Breaking Free - pathways to a fair technological future".
It works as a pretty good summary of where we are now along with providing some steps towards "rewilding" the internet.
If only policy makers would listen and look out for the users/consumers.
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