Aerospace engineer, maker and terrible amateur programmer. I will probably toot when I've made something, mainly 3d printing and plotting; if you want to make what I've made you'll probably find it on Printables: https://www.printables.com/social/152251-pittance/models
I am also on Pixelfed: https://pixey.org/fastness
Today we got our dishwasher fixed under warranty. To diagnose it, the tech stuck a photosensor+magnet onto the front panel over the green status LED and started reading diagnostics. It turns out the status LED is actually a serial port*, and it's continually transmitting status.
I can think of so many gadgets that could and should use this trick...
*It's probably something other than regular serial -- a UART's TX would flicker. I don't know any details.
@pauldoo my HTC Desire has the same thing and I still use it to this day as an eReader because it's small and the LED screen can go very, very dark so I can read at night without disturbing people. The track pad thing makes it easy to turn pages in some orientations
(It's disconnected from the mobile network and WiFi of course, I'm not sure it's ready for the 2025 internet even if it could still make the connection which it probably can't)
Heck yeah plum jam!
The tree (mainly used for shade) hasn't been as productive this year as in the past but it's still more plums than we can eat so: jam it is
The cutest PCB ever 😀
Stonehenge at scale 1000:1 (or so). With blinking LEDs!!
Designed by @cccpresser and others, soldered and programmed by @casartar .
@rasterweb we visited Portmeirion on holiday a few years back, it's an odd place but really interesting
The place we were staying was relatively nearby so they had a DVD with the series that we showed to the kids so they'd have context for some of what they were about to see. Their reaction could be summarised as "what the heck did I just watch?"
Kernel Bob
Emy Johanna
Ekki DF4OR