Radio, rocks, electronics, and other nonsense.
I make ridiculous things with modest skills for the sheer joy of it, and I share things in the hope that it brings you a bit of joy as well (but that's not a requirement).
| Pronouns | He/Him |
| Callsign | K5J[redacted]T, LA8V[redacted]A |
| Languages | English, Norsk (bob-bob), Pig Latin (fluent) |
This #mayke (4/30) is an attempt at a heat control exercise in fusing (not soldering) silver from Nicole Ringgold's book (nominative determinism much?).
Each segment has fused loops at each end, and then the linkage bit is melted at each end and pulled into a ball to hold the links together.
It's not pretty, but the fact that it didn't A) fuse into a solid lump or B) completely fall apart is a qualified success.
The exercise goal is to make an entire chain this way! 😬
Here's one installed in place. You can see why the paint job doesn't matter much.
The bulbs here are very strange, and not something I've encountered before. They're essentially sealed-beam car headlight bulbs, but work on either 12VAC or DC.
Today's #mayke (3/30) is reflashing a brand new Wyze outdoor smart plug with ESPHome firmware.
Soldering the wires to the pads inside the case was a bit fiddly, but otherwise everything went smoothly.
Now, will it WiFi where I want it to be?
(This is part of the project started in #mayke 2/30).
Thinderstorm last night finally let me see what lightning does on the Virtual Skylight.
It was an interesting effect, but not exactly relaxing!
A very pedestrian #mayke today. Needed to make a duplicate (left) of a landscape lighting fixture made out of PVC (right). The tops are a cut down 4" to 3" fitting, and I used a rotary saw to cut them down, so now my workshop reeks of slightly melted PVC (which isn't very good for you).
This is a very shoddy primer job, because it just needs to be not-white, and it could rain at any moment. These will be buried ~90% into the ground.
