Tpolecat Industries has entered compact mode in preparation for some much-needed new shelving.
dijkstra would not have liked this
Rob Norris
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Some people at work have started using Claude and it’s very demoralizing. If anyone wants to hire me to fix vintage computers and build pointless weird shit please speak up.
I made this simple PCB vise a while back and I use it all the time. Here are the model files and BOM if you'd like to make one. https://github.com/tpolecat/3d-models/tree/main/Vise
I successfully resisted commenting on a discussion of optional brace syntax in Scala. Please clap.
Seven ICs on the HRG test bad, as do all the electrolytics and one of the transistors. There are 64 RAM chips on the other board that I need to test, but first I need to build a tester. This is how you run out of stack space. 8/n
It’s summer in Texas, which means gigantic thunderstorms and river camps full of kids. We got three emergency alerts last night about flash flooding, which isn’t really an issue for us personally but I’m very glad they’re being more proactive this year.
Thomas Fuchs
Next up is a relaxing soak for the Vector Graphics HRG, which was splattered with what I choose to believe was mud. There is almost no information available online so it may be a challenge to get it working. On the off chance anyone in #retrocomputing land has any info, please contact me. 7/n
Having spent a few evenings learning rudimentary Rust I'm finding that the language and tooling address my specific anxieties very effectively.
Combustion publishes the BLE protocol for their predictive thermometers, which seemed like a good excuse to step into the Embedded Rust firehose and see if I can remain standing. So far so good! Very fun.