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projectgus Oct 28, 2022

Media distribution in 2022 is *weird*, and today I found a fantastic example:

I've been listening to the (very funny) 2019 podcast Finding Drago, that was commissioned by the ABC. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/finding-drago

In one episode they interview Anna Broinowski, who in 2007 made a documentary about a hoax author con artist called Forbidden Lie$

The doco sounds really interesting from Anna's account of it, surely we can watch it somewhere... yeah?

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Finding Drago | Finding Desperado with Alexei Toliopoulos and Cameron James - ABC

Finding Desperado is a brand new investigative mystery podcast, hosted by comedians Alexei Toliopoulos and Cameron James — the team behind the most talked about podcast of 2019, Finding Drago. Australia’s premier (and only) pop culture detectives, Alexei and Cameron have uncovered a bizarre Guinness World Record from 2005. A record held by an elusive European aristocrat. A record that they believe to be fake.

ABC

projectgus Oct 23, 2022

This datasheet knows what we're looking for

projectgus Jul 11, 2022

Last part of my series on reverse engineering BMW electronic gear selectors is up: https://projectgus.com/2022/07/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-three-success/

Watch me mess about with the bespoke transmission emulator software "Bavariatron 5000"!

BMW F Series Gear Selector, Part Three: Success – Project Gus

projectgus Jun 23, 2022

Electronics folks, if the conformal coating flakes off the top of a chip like this then could it be a sign the chip has gotten hot, or more likely just an assembly/curing issue? Rest of the board has A+ coating

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projectgus Jun 17, 2022

Plus now I have conductive Blu-Tac residue to clean out of my breadboard

projectgus Jun 17, 2022

Me, debugging a module in a breadboard: "Why are breadboards always so flaky... fed up with this, I should know better... time to get the module out and wire it up without the breadboard." ... "Oh."

projectgus May 18, 2022

The ASIC website is a lovely reminder of what computer applications looked like in 2003.

(This post is not even really snark, it's quite nice in a retro way.)

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projectgus Apr 27, 2022

Forgot Hacklace 2 came with its own promotional material

"Makes you smile!" ❤️

projectgus Apr 27, 2022

Doing a clean out and I have three electronics kits that I would love to mail for free to any Australian nerd/parent/Hackerspace that would enjoy building them:

1) Freetronics Cube https://www.freetronics.com.au/products/cube4-4x4x4-rgb-led-cube
2) Hacklace https://wiki.raumzeitlabor.de/wiki/Hacklace/en
3) Hacklace 2 https://github.com/fab4U/Hacklace2

The Freetronics Cube is pretty fiddly to build. The Hacklaces look simple enough for a first time solderer with a bit of guidance.

4x4x4 RGB LED Cube

projectgus Jan 23, 2022

A sign of Australian summer: you have to take the extension reel out of the shed a while before using it, because the over-temperature has tripped from just sitting around...