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Spending time I don't have to make things I don't need
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I'm not sure I agree with the AI rendering of me, but I'll miss the cool projects I saw and great friends I made at #hackaday #supercon2023 this year!
#HackerTrain had some great scenery and even better company. What a great way to travel to Supercon! #Hackaday #Supercon #supercon2023

I recently 3d printed an attachment for my hair dryer that cools down your Hot Pocket so you can eat it faster #HotPocket #3dprinting #overengineered #electronics

https://youtube.com/shorts/YEgSGMoajiw?feature=share

How to Cool Down a Hot Pocket #hotpockets #3dprinting #overengineered #electronics

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Asahi Linux is now shipping the world's first standards conformant GPU driver for Apple M1/M2! šŸŽ‰ā€‹

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.html

The first conformant M1 GPU driver

I just posted a video detailing how I built a modified Power Wheels car for OpenSauce
https://youtu.be/H3oTjSa2nEk

#OpenSauce #opensaucelive #powerwheels #Technology #electronics

Building the Thiccest Power Wheels Car at OpenSauce (feat. Strange Parts and Tom Stanton)

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"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

Remembering hearing from someone high up in org of big open source project.

They expressly don't deal with Big Tech Company who would love nothing else than have a seat at their board or committees to steer the direction of this open source project.

They know as soon as Big Tech Company has a say, it becomes a Big Tech Company project. Their priority is to the tech community, and they know Big Tech Company has no priorities other than their own.

beta versions of new "generic heatsink" for MNT Reform modules arrived. this one adapts to any module with wuerth graphite foam pads. it is wider and more shallow than the previous heatsink.
Simple analog accomplishment today: getting one op amp up and running. The setup is simple: I’m touching a wire, and my body is acting like an antenna. This body signal goes to OPAMP0’s positive input via a 1uF capacitor. Configured as a non-inverting amplifier with modest gain, that op amp is able to amplify the 60 Hz electrical hum in the room to a 3.3V peak-to-peak signal, which all but vanishes when I ground myself by touching my MacBook Air. I think the Feather Op Amp Lab lives!
Had an idea to play with a touchscreen on top of an LED matrix. The touch values are mapped to match the x & y coordinates for the pixels in the matrix. I’m hoping to maybe build a MIDI controller with it or maybe an envelope drawer with synthio. Coded in #CircuitPython