Lynn French

@lynnfrench
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Software developer. Science history videos, hardware shenanigans, and music. 🏳️‍⚧️/🏳️‍🌈 she/her
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Lynn FrenchJul 27, 2023

And that's the barometer up and running! We're, like, halfway to a functional flight computer!

https://sr.ht/~l-french/Pulse-FC/
#RaspberryPiPico #tech #hardware #raspberrypipicoprojects #rockets

Pulse-FC: The Pulse flight computer for amateur rockets

Lynn FrenchJul 24, 2023
DebianJul 24, 2023
riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/07/msg00053.html. Additional information is available on the Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/riscv64.
riscv64 is now an official architecture

Lynn FrenchJul 24, 2023
Scott Weston (srw)Jul 22, 2023

Putting a @Raspberry_Pi into an old PSP handheld! I love this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBcK6hLdLKg

PSPi 6 - Raspberry Pi Zero (and 2W) and Compute Module 4 in a PSP

Meet the new PSPi 6, formerly called the PSPi Compute. Its made for the Raspberry Pi Zero (and 2W) and the Compute Module 4.This is a custom all-in-one board...

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Lynn FrenchJul 18, 2023

We've got data output from the gyroscope!

https://sr.ht/~l-french/Pulse-FC/
#tech #raspberrypi #hardware

Pulse-FC: The Pulse flight computer for amateur rockets

Lynn FrenchJun 25, 2023
John OverholtJun 25, 2023
In 1948, the University of Manchester photographed its groundbreaking Mark I computer for a photocomposite stitched together from 20 separate shots. A newly restored image from the best surviving original materials of each shot reveals a wealth of detail that’s been lost over the years. https://rylandscollections.com/2023/06/21/a-new-view-of-the-manchester-computer/
Rylands BlogA new view of the Manchester Computer

Seventy five years ago, the University’s ‘Baby’ computer became the first electronic computer with a read/write memory to run a program. To mark this historic event, Professor Jim Miles (University…

Rylands Blog
Lynn FrenchJun 25, 2023
#caturday
Lynn FrenchJun 25, 2023

Project page for the Pulse flight computer is live! Still under heavy construction, mind you: https://sr.ht/~l-french/Pulse-FC/

#hardware #tech

Pulse-FC: The Pulse flight computer for amateur rockets

Lynn FrenchJun 12, 2023
Andrew DuckerJun 12, 2023
Link Post: ChatGPT recommends software packages that don't exist - so hackers created them to take control of people's computers https://vulcan.io/blog/ai-hallucinations-package-risk
Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?

ChatGPT can offer coding solutions, but its tendency for hallucination presents attackers with an opportunity. Here's what we learned.

Vulcan Cyber
Lynn FrenchJun 4, 2023

New project: a prototype flight computer for amateur rockets! More to come once I get the firmware to a good state.

(also, new to mastodon! hello!)