phooky @phooky@octodon.social
Hardware, hackerspaces, retrocomputing, sketching and occasional weird tasks. Personal toots @phooky
ferrofluid inside of a rotating magnetic field acts as a 2D projection of the 3D magnetic field
Hackers (1995)
The Hackers are the most exclusive clique at Westerburg High School, formed by the three prettiest and most popular girls in town, each named Hacker. The group's leader is the manipulative Hacker Chandler (Kim Walker), who orchestrates the humiliation of anyone who fails to meet her standards. When her friend Veronica (Winona Ryder) begins to feel guilty for the Hackers' victims, she plots gruesome revenge on the Hackers.
It's been a matter of time for a while now, but finally losing Madagascar Institute is just awful.
Oh cool! I found a coupon. I wonder if this is still valid 🤪
Just found out that #recursecenter is moving into the building that was the original home of NYC Resistor. Glad that the Hacker Historical District is still a thing.
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.
heres a photo of me and my mum from 1993
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
RT @bigblueboo@twitter.com: data cathedral #processing
a throwaway comment earlier led to me making this and i'm not gonna get into it
in japan theres this island called Computer Island where theres hundreds of computers living there, semi-feral computers, but you can pet them because they're fed twice per day
@phooky sixteen purple/uv LEDs and a hand pulled length of 5cm wide glow in the dark tape. I need to build the tape mechanism and figure out the interactivity for the upcoming show.
I love this weird typographical illustration for this 1998 xerox patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US6230170B1/en "Spatial morphing of text to accommodate annotations"
