I needed a 3”x6” piece of aluminum plate, so I went to Austin Creative Reuse and they had exactly what I was looking for in the architectural samples bin for 25¢. Such a great resource. If you are in Austin and like to make stuff you really must check this place out.

Taking the infernal Sun to the retro meetup today. Maybe I can trade it for a calculator or something.

Beginnings of a project here. It took an upsetting amount of fiddling around last night to get this working. 1/n

I really enjoyed doing #ptpx and will do it again next year for sure. Here are the cards I mailed in December, and the ones I have received. Super fun and super inspiring, recommend.

Almost all my doodads produce debug output on a serial port, but it's a pain in the ass to set up a computer with the right cable, etc., so I made a battery-powered serial monitor with two wires (RX and GND) and a level shifter with optional signal inversion so it should work with any serial signal. This could be much smaller and prettier with a custom PCB but I'm not willing to pay the bastards $45 to ship me a 50¢ board. Anyway here it is hooked up to my nixie clock.

The computers are angry today my friends.

Just tried to delete a file in the Arduino IDE and instead it deleted the whole project. Cool feature.