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🇪🇺Sep 30, 2025

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

jfroehlich 1d ago

Viewline News 1d ago

🔬 NASA Unveils 1st Earth Photos From Artemis II: ‘You Look Beautiful.’

The pictures were released on the third day of the first mission since 1972 to send people around the moon.

https://viewlinemedia.com/article/31995

#ViewlineNews #UKNews #Science

jfroehlich 1d ago

"helo, this is NASA Help Center Mumbai - Microsoft Support, Sukashish speaking. Did you try to switch it off and on again? Yes? good, good, good. Let me guide you to install the latest system updates and drivers... How about an Upgrade to Copilot Premium? Did you like my support? Please fill out this ten page rating form."

– Welcome to Microsofts reality, artemis II astronauts...

jfroehlich 3d ago

Chris Hessert 3d ago

I enjoy the preservation and exploration of old technologies. This is one such project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMGl0M1nKLc

#Tech #Sailing #Ships #Saxon #7thCentury #WoodWorking #Craftsmanship

Building a Saxon Ship with Axes and Volunteers

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jfroehlich Mar 28

Turns out that it's still off occasionally and if you walk through the various app your signal passes through (dns, container engine, web server, ...) you might stumble about the one or other where you have to enable IPv6 explicitly (e.g. podman networks).

jfroehlich Mar 28

I seem to be still too stupid to get things running with IPv6.

jfroehlich Mar 28

Andy Clarke Mar 27

👉 New post: I designed an animated SVG-driven website for composer Begoña Pereda

https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/how-i-designed-an-animated-svg-driven-website-for-composer-begona-pereda

How I designed an animated SVG-driven website for composer Begoña Pereda

jfroehlich Mar 28

Just thinking while waiting: When I need 7 square meters of solar panels to generate the power I’d get from 1 barrel of oil … I could just continue producing electricity with the panel when that amount is reached – while the barrel of oil is gone.

jfroehlich Mar 28