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I'm into music, building things, cooking. Trying to be more active here (and apparently succeeding!)
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A car dependency thing that I run into all the time and I've not seen anybody talk about:
Thing doesn't allow to take bags inside.
Still, thing doesn't offer a way to lock your bag somewhere.

How are you supposed to deal with this when you're on a bike?

Image 1: reliably working. Image 2: reliably not working.
Sorry to say but the caberQU approach to testing my USB cables has been a bust. I have an adapter that tests identical to another one but this one just won't let data go through, across several systems and gadgets.
It's basically “broken” and I have no way to test that, yet again.

It took quite some time until I found someone to test this for me, but num lock and scroll lock indeed do not light up with a current mac.

I'm building some macOS software+keyboard-adjacent hardware and wanted to see if I can misuse one of these status LEDs for the mute status of a microphone. Nope, doesn't work.

I'm incredibly happy to announce that something me and my (former) team at the TH Köln and Fachstelle für Jugendmedienkultur NRW worked on for the past two years is finally available:

An archive of Open Educational Resources focusing on gaming and accessibility!

https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/collections?id=a3ed75b1-a23c-4e42-ad75-b1a23c1e4264

https://www.youtube.com/@InclusiveGameLab

As a game developer, you can use these to educate yourself about accessibility and how to improve your projects; if you're a media educator, you'll learn more about using games to foster inclusion. And if you are a student, you may recommend them to your teachers, as we've also added some lesson plans and tasks. Every session focuses on one subtopic and consists of a script, a presentation, and a recorded talk.

#Gaming #GameDevelopment #Accessibility #OER

Does anybody have a modern mac (running Sequoia or Tahoe) and an old school keyboard with num lock and scroll lock LEDs around? Do the LEDs light up when you press the corresponding keys?
I know about Tindie and Lectronz, but they're focused on just selling small DIY focused products. I'm thinking something like a crossover of that with meetup dot com or hacker spaces.
Just from the top of my head, the topics that I can come up with where making some specialized gear is a regular thing: music, gaming, coffee, FPV drones, paintball, cycling, camping…
Is there some sort of “group buy & build together & help each other” platform?
There are so many hobbies I know of where DIY electronics play a huge role, and so many people who would like to have the DIY'd things but don't want to tackle it themselves. Plus things like minimum PCB orders, required tools, skills&practice…
It would make perfect sense to organize this on some sort of open platform, right?
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