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Had my first reason to try out DJI's warranty support this week, after a drone turned up deaf to GPS. Reported the problem on Sunday afternoon, got a DPD return label a few hours later, dropped it off at the Co-op Sunday night, a replacement was shipped out yesterday, and it was in my hands after lunch today.
Not bad, DJI, not bad!
Absolutely snowed under with work and non-work stuff at the mo', so I've been lax in doing my daily round-ups. I aintn't dead, though - everything's still going up on Hackster and Gemini!
Normal service will resume when it resumes. Probably.
As always, those are also available via the #GeminiProtocol:
"Counterfeit" Raspberry Pis:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260504-pi5.gmi
Altoid-tin terminal:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260504-mint.gmi
One-pixel camera:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260504-pixel.gmi
CRT video terminal build:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260504-crt.gmi
The MetaClockClock78:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260504-clock.gmi
And finally, Erich Styger's back with another MetaClockClock - this time using 78 clock faces to display the time, animations, or text.
Or why not connect two together over RS-485? (Maybe because building 'em takes three months and costs $1,500 in parts?)
I'm very much loving how many cyberdecks/writerdecks/terminals I'm seeing that use actual honest-to-goodness CRT displays - like this one, which is built around a Samsung tube salvaged from a dead portable TV.
Y'know those little photoresistors? The ones that change resistance according to ambient light? Well... that's a camera sensor, right? A single-pixel camera sensor?
Well, here's a camera built around that idea. It works, if you're patient enough: you're looking at around eight hours for a single exposure(!)
Oh, and the image is "developed" in a spreadsheet, because why not at this point?
Another Altoids tin project, next - and this time it's a fully-functional #RaspberryPi terminal, complete with neato (if slow) electrophoretic ePaper display and internal battery.
It's a bank holiday here in the UK, so you know what that means!
Absolutely nothing, 'cos I'm freelance!
First up on #Hackster today: there are "counterfeit" #RaspberryPi 5 boards in the market, likely bought as 1GB models and upgraded to 4GB/8GB/16GB using out-of-spec and/or low-quality parts.
Raspberry Pi says buy from official resellers only, and you'll be fine.
Also! #Hackster's looking at getting me to do more video (boo), starting with one op-ed piece a month. Could be short-form portrait for the socials, could be long-form landscape - it's up to me.
If you've any ideas of things you think you could stand to watch me drone on about, I'm open to suggestions!
Want to read those ad- and tracker-free? The #GeminiProtocol awaits.
New Arduino App Lab:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260501-applab.gmi
Ergonomic cyberdeck:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260501-deck.gmi
8086YES!'s portable Apple II clone:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260501-apple.gmi
Copy Fail vulnerability:
gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202605/20260501-copyfail.gmi
