Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Been waiting for this one for a couple years. It's out now! Deer & Boy youtu.be/u9F-B0xatzI

Check out my write-up of the 1976 Muhammad Ali vs Antonio Inoki fight that happened 50 years ago today

At my Brisbane book launch last night a little girl asked if I would be back next year and I told her I hope so, if Penguin lets me. Her eyes went so wide and she was like “you have a pet penguin?!”

Under a Killing Moon was my first Tex Murphy game. It was groundbreaking to me. Its soundtrack is forever embedded in my brain. I've bought and played every Tex Murphy game since, even the rereleases. I couldn't back this fast enough. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tex...

That pitch-over was.....rather sporty ! Source: ESA - S. Corvaja #VA269 #Ariane6 #CSG #P160C

Today marks my 15th Amiversary on YouTube! I made a compilation featuring EVERY video I've made (so far), showing the evolution of my channel. Thank you all for your support over the years! It's what drives me to continue. 🙏🏻 ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2p...

Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip in 1980 to make math faster. The chip does tangents, square roots, and so forth, but fundamentally everything is computed through additions and subtractions, performed by an adder at the heart of the chip. Let's look at the adder's circuitry... 1/N

We are launching a rocket 🚀. Here is a live feed (launch at 09:53 JST). This is JAXA's new H3 launch vehicle, which will launch the Martian Moons eXploration (#MMX) mission later this fiscal year. There's been a couple of failed launches, so we're all watching slightly anxiously 😅

Oddly, all I know of Love Hulten comes from their YouTube channel. Their custom synths are wonderful, whimsical pieces of art. When they released their first album on vinyl I had to grab it. youtube.com/@hulten1000

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

I need a thing.

Ah, the internet. Where I can start out watching a video documenting the process of refurbing CRTs and wind up buying 3 CDs of 80s synth music in a buy 2 get 1 deal from a book reseller a thousand miles away.

That's a bummer. The Maxx is one of my favorites, easily top 5 comics. His work on Sandman, Zero Girl, Four Women, and so much more... Gonna go dig up my trade paperbacks and issues and read them again.

I can't seem to figure out JLCPCB's tooling hole requirements. I put one in each corner. I specified in the order I had added tooling holes. Yet they went and added their own within a couple mm of mine! What gives?! Are min too close to the edge??

I have a project in mind that reads multiple RFID tags so I bought a bunch of readers. In the time it took for them to arrived I realized it wasn't going to work the way I thought. So here's what 10 RFID readers looks like. They'll go into a storage container for a rainy day.

On Georges Méliès’s re-discovered 1897 sci-fi short, and the enduring anxiety of technological replacement: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Last day to get any Alpengoodies!

"You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose!" -Picard 6:3

I need more coffee. Been staring at code for the last 30mins wondering why it was skipping every other byte. I mean, pos modulo 1 should be flipping between 1 and 0 as I increment pos. right? RIGHT?! oh. oh yeah. anything divided by 1 has a remainder of 0. pos % 2 hey, the code works!!

blizzard hits tonight. so I check my lone flashlight. ah, a battery leaked. I'll clean it. But it's still crusty, wth?! Oh, no, it's not battery juice, that's just where the battery juice eroded the aluminum housing. the crater is a good mm deep! Right, all good. Now, do I have any C batteries?

wanted to code new stuff today. instead spent the day rethinking and rewriting stuff I have rethought and rewritten about a dozen times now. surely I've cracked it THIS time!

I've previously bought the Krampus and SMT Garden kits. Both are wonderful. If you want to get some cool soldering practice in or want a pretty electronical of your own then definitely check Alpenglow out while you still can!

One last (virtual) ride. Dinosaur closes tomorrow. I wonder what'll happen to the replica of Sue (a T-Rex skeleton on display in Chicago). youtu.be/4MofIhWR2cI

For a distraction, I sat down with this TNG effects generator keychain given to me by a friend. The batteries inside had leaked and eaten most of the copper pads that provided the LR44 battery connection. And in taking it apart I destroyed the speaker and had to order a replacement.

Next Stop, THE MOON! NASA's SLS rocket has made the 11 hour trip from the VAB to LC-39B, ahead of the launch of the crewed Artemis II mission to the moon for the first time since 1972, launching NET February 6. Stay with NASASpaceflight for all updates on this historic mission.

Reviving ReBoot With a Tape Deck Repair

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

Was gifted this yard sale find a few months back. It's a "Cool Keys" music toy from the 90s. However, not all the keys were cool. The bond between the carbon track ribbon cable and the keyboard and logic PCBs was failing. So I replaced it with a couple connectors and a ribbon cable. Is it cool now?

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Posted a new video today taking a look at The Stranger legacy lightsaber from Galaxy's Edge. Should have stopped to read the instructions, but who does that? youtu.be/NsJrulg4btA

The control board from a UV sanitizer case that was being tossed. It has three LEDs inside, two UVA/B and one UVC LED. Confirmed UVC with a UVC detector. Surprised it's not a scam. PCB has two separate DC boosting LED drivers. It also has a sounder to alert you after 1 minute of use.

Was asked about accessing the battery on a Qui-Gon legacy hilt. Found how to get in. Remove the covertec wheel (2mm hex) and pry up the black plastic oval piece nearest the base. Some light heat and/or IPA may help. I used a hobby knife and spudger. The electronics housing pulls out.

Ever sit down to code or draw or write or whatever, get caught up in it for a few hours, then take a break to grab a drink and find the coffee you made 3 hours ago sitting there, waiting for you?

Intel's 386 processor (1985) was critical to the success of Intel. With 285,000 transistors, it was too much for Intel's design process and the schedule started slipping. Intel pivoted to "standard cells", an automated technique for chip layout to get back on track. Let's look closer...

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

lost a 3 pin header the other day working on some electronics. in totally unrelated news, the enter key on my numpad has been acting up recently and not registering keypresses about half the time. almost like there's something stuck under the key preventing it from depressing fully.

Blue Origin is starting the webcast for the NG-2 launch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Wp...

At the end of my last YouTube video I mentioned that the day after Halloween you should go buy some discount decorations for modding. I did just that. I've turned this 1 dollar Halloween necklace into an accessory for droids from Galaxy's Edge.

Just put up a new video about adding motion activation to a light-up Halloween decoration. Just in time!

the LA Dodgers organist is GOATED tonight. doing this while Will Klein gets his shoe scraped in the 18th inning

Finished modding this Halloween decoration of a skull inside an astronaut helmet Originally the light was only on or off. I added a motion sensor to it, which requires a boost converter give it 5V from the 3V battery pack. Came out nice. I did accidentally wire the switch backwards. Oh well.