We wish we had remembered to do this bit on April Fools' Day.
I'm Fluora!
Trans, aro/ace, she/they
Physics lab manager by day, [DATA EXPUNGED] by night
The Wireless Witch of the West
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this was the immediate aftermath
it happened the moment we stuck a stir rod in to try to keep the bubbles from exploding.
whoops.
The internals are a huge mess after a constant succession of overhauls and revisions. They don't look like this anymore, because the circuit board has been replaced with an even smaller version that just uses an LM324 as an instrumentation amp + LED driver, but this is the general idea.
So! We made a thingie.
This is the Fluora Electromagnetic Ear, which simply amplifies oscillations in magnetic fields and allows you to hear them as sound through an earpiece. The housing is absurdly extra and was made mostly as a technical study in artistic wood shop fabrication.
This is the Fluora Electromagnetic Ear, which simply amplifies oscillations in magnetic fields and allows you to hear them as sound through an earpiece. The housing is absurdly extra and was made mostly as a technical study in artistic wood shop fabrication.
it seems to be working
remarkable
remarkable
oops! we forgot to add the cool photograph we went to all the trouble to take.
It's posted there now.
It's posted there now.
Pine64 wiki:
"Some Pinebook Pro chassis have 2 microphone labeled holes. Only the right hole is populated with a microphone."
Our unit: 