my buddy toast (wartoaster.com) made a teeny tiny model railroad on a pcb, with the train and tracks being a row of LEDs, the switches on the tracks being dip switches, and a reverser/throttle made from a potentiometer wheel.

He has called it Light Rail (get it?) and I just received mine in the mail. It is wonderfully useless.

NINETY DAYS

NINETY INCIDENTS

NINETY PERCENT

YOU PAID FOR ALL FIVE NINES BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE

#github

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.

I never applied for an amateur radio license because I didn't like the idea of appearing on an official list of "skilled" people. Until now that was a theoretical fear. One I wasn't even sure if it was warranted or just me being overly cautious.

In Belarus things escalated quickly. Radio amateurs - usually recognized as men of goodwill - have been declared enemies of the state and publicly shamed and indicted for high treason.

https://steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389f5713fee4