phooky @phooky@octodon.social
Hardware, hackerspaces, retrocomputing, sketching and occasional weird tasks. Personal toots @phooky
@aparrish shared an elevator with Kyle McLachlan and didn't notice until my friend pointed it out after he got off
potential 10/10, completely flubbed
related: roommate shared a smoke with Elijah Wood and saved the butt
@MightyPork @technomancy well, there's always flip-pins, so you can make carriers that fit in DIP sockets
http://oshchip.org/products/Flip-Pins_Product.html
@bhtooefr @kaniini good luck interfacing your own hardware with that netbook, though. one of the neat features of these kits is that they often come with breadboards and a few easy projects.
(it's not obvious when you're steeped in technology, but being able to put together/take apart a computer, even at this level, means a lot to kids that have grown up with sealed shell devices.)
@craigmaloney vulkan is too low level to be a proper opengl replacement (nor is it intended to be)
@twylo trending topic: social network exhaustion
@intherain the only way this could be improved is if the book he is holding is the 4E AD&D Player's Handbook
Intergalactic Wasabi Mix now live with @snowdusk_
on anonradio.net !!!
stuck at home with a sleeping baby on one arm trying to figure out what device in easy reach I can poach a 1Mohm resistor from.
one of the reasons I like Mastodon is that there apparently is a lot of drama going on and I'm completely oblivious to it. Works as intended.
OK, for whatever reason, I've been on a #CRT kick lately.
Let's talk about the flood beam CRT - a defocused CRT with no deflection (and therefore no scanning), so the whole thing lights up.
As far as I'm aware, they've had three main applications.
Ferranti sold them as "vacuum light sources" with fast phosphors for stroboscopic applications as early as the 1950s: http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/frank/sheets/074/c/CL60.pdf
Various manufacturers made them for large format displays, as seen below, source: http://www.industrialalchemy.org/articleview.php?item=1050
Today I am writing my very first verilog code. Baby's first FPGA.
@joshmillard screw hexagons. go with cubes.
@enkiv2 wait, what? reference please?
heres a photo of me and my mum from 1993
@Tanuki wait, she locked him in the trunk?
I guess there is junk in that trunk, then.
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a website that plays you radio streams from a location on earth where the sun is rising (the station changes every few minutes)
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
I chanced upon an ancient cache of code:
a stack of printouts, tall as any man,
that in decaying boxes had been stowed.
Ten thousand crumbling pages long it ran.
Abandoned in the blackness to erode,
what steered a ship through blackness to the moon.
The language is unused in this late year.
The target hardware, likewise, lies in ruin.
Entombed within one lone procedure’s scope,
a line of code and then these words appear:
# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
what fresh bullshit is this
@scanlime@mastodon.social Roger Penrose is cool and all but have you seen what his parents were working on https://youtu.be/2_9ohFWR0Vs
