i finally got this thing working as a standalone serial printer. if anyone has one of these lying around, it needs 10ms of delay per line or it will simply shit out after 126 characters

what the fuck are they putting in these shallots to warrant PPE

is there anything autel doesn't make? they're starting to resemble yamaha

Lots of small arc tiles make up this big Truchet tile rug plot. CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL #PenPlotter with Python. Available in my shop: shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/ #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #NoAI #ArtSky

many such cases, but the power supply on the lacie shat out so i guess we’re doing this now. at least they were kind enough to print the pinout on the label

we already had a reliable non-visual way of programming relay logic. it was called the Number 1 Crossbar Switching System + A Soldering Iron

i’ve been doing a lot of job interviews lately so here’s an exchange i was having with a friend that i realized should probably be a skeet

14 minutes into the HL2 documentary and holy shit, that’s fort worden! i know that concrete! i wonder if i can locate the resulting textures

Become ungovernable

steal your competitor’s assets

hey uhh. i have a bunch of pharmaceutical punches from an old job. S7, D2, M340. they haven’t gone through the cryo/hardening cycles. i’ve been kicking the idea of making something else out of them but can’t come up with anything other than “knife”. i’ve never made a knife. any ideas?

That thing where somebody discovers peltier devices and gets really excited and everyone has to be like "yeah, no, they suck" "but what if...?" "No, not even then, they really suck."

soothing the nerves with some light time travel to 2002

i try to avoid succumbing to the completely subjective audiophile opinions camp, but this does sound particularly crisp and nasal

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

1. this is criminally underviewed 2. it is imperative that children are allowed to see how things are made. manufacturing is a black box for many, but generally becomes immediately intuitive when you actually see it happening. i didn't know what a machinist was until 2013 when i watched Dan Gelbart.

you cannot convince me that long lines facilities weren’t a component of portal 2’s art direction

so that’s why the hillsboro, mo long lines site is terrifyingly huge (thank u @connections.museum)

The GPU is not your enemy. The GPU was intended to channel magic smoke into the drawing of triangles, the virtuous shape. Evil men devised wicked shapes that should never have been drawn, and have used their influence to hoard the GPUs and twist the magic smoke toward the shape of their perversions.

can't argue with this.

absolutely devastated to learn that Trentemøller did the title track for Halt and Catch Fire, which is probably why it sounds like a regurgitated Still On Fire

boards of kerbal

filthy

the way u feel

olympus em5

chamfer bit? i barely even know her

no thoughts, only Bird Improvisation

😏

jeremy clarkson sucks but he was really cooking when he said “browned food tastes good”

Some incredible views from the first stage separation during yesterday's Ariane 6 launch.

EXLCUSIVE: An analysis by two MIT researchers shows how Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile actually works. And guys, it's not pretty. 🚀☢️🤢🧵 www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...

i’ll tidy up the soldering in a bit, but proof of concept or get the fuck out for now

haha fuck yes!!! found a very old internal manual for this thing and determined that cap goo had eaten some of the data pins from the laser. she’s playing again!

OH WORD!?

esd isn’t real

for the sake of simplicity, the aerodynamic model is assumed to be spherical,

Bell System Fancam KS-7777777