Halloween masks are coming along nicely. #3DPrinting #Halloween #DIY

Not the most portable setup, but here’s how I’ve been playing Pokémon Odyssey: Raspberry Pi Zero 2, portable display, battery pack, and an 8BitDo Pro 2 controller. Might try strapping the Pi and battery to the screen. #PokemonOdyssey #RaspberryPi #RetroGaming #HandheldGaming #Emulation #Pokemon

IT WORKS!!! 🎉 My cab is officially ALIVE 👾🔥 Running #RetroPie with a custom power rail + 3D printed case I built. 12V for the LCD 5V for the Raspberry Pi Can’t believe this finally came together 🙌 #ArcadeCabinet #DIY #Makers #Electronics #3DPrinting #RaspberryPi #RetroGaming

I cannot recommend the Panda Festival. We spent more time standing in line than actually inside. It was what I imagine hell to be like. Food prices started at $15 for a single skewer. You’re crammed shoulder to shoulder just to shuffle past a dozen food vendors and then you’re out.

Used #Blender to design a custom case for my #ArcadeCabinet power circuit ⚡️ 4x M3 screws hold the top in place. Inside, 12V comes in and splits into three 12V lines + one 5V line to power the LCD, speakers, lights, and Raspberry Pi. #3DPrinting #Electronics #DIY #Makers

Whipped up some OpenSCAD parts to house my custom power rail board. Blue PETG panels + bright orange corner blocks to hold M3 screws. Next step: assemble and see how tidy this can get! #3DPrinting #Makers #ArcadeCabinet #OpenSCAD #Electronics

Finally got power sorted. ⚡️ 12V rail feeding the LCD, speakers, and button lights, plus a DC-DC step-down for 5V to the Raspberry Pi. It’s a spaghetti mess of cables right now, but everything works! Cleanup next. 🤞 #Electronics #RaspberryPi #ArcadeBuild #Makers

Took @symbo1ics.bsky.social advice and made a bus bar for my arcade build ⚡️ Multimeter says it’s solid 🤞 Next up: wiring the positive side. Definitely ditching stranded wire in the future 😅 #Electronics #DIYArcade #Soldering #RetroGaming #ArcadeCabinet

Measuring and modeling the screen so I can place it inside the model.

Found some existing shells to start from. I’ll need to modify them to fit my actual hardware. I originally wanted the GBC style, but my screen fits better in the DS style.

A buddy gave me this SUP handheld for free, so I thought it’d be fun to upgrade it. So far nothing has fit 😂 At this point it feels easier to 3D print a new shell and build my own from scratch. #RetroGaming #RaspberryPi #HandheldGaming #3DPrinting #DIYElectronics

My first attempt sucked pretty hard. I feel like I significantly improved by the forth wire. But now I’m left wondering, how the hell do I connect all four of these wires to a single pin? #Electronics #Soldering #Perfboard #CircuitDesign #Makers #DIYElectronics #ArcadeBuild #ElectronicsProjects

Found a Pipboy bobble head. I think this one gives +1 to hats.

Figuring out the power board for my arcade cabinet. Inline fuse, switch, and a couple smoothing caps to keep the Pi, LCD, amp, and coin button happy. #ArcadeCabinet #RetroGaming #Electronics #Makers #DIY #RaspberryPi #ArcadeBuild

Upgrading the speakers in my arcade cabinet. I thought a pair of 4” would be a nice upgrade from the single 3” it came with. But it’s a little larger than I imagined.

So I cut down a dead tree. Did everything I could to make it fall away from the power line. Of course it fell on the power line. Now #Xfinity says they can’t come fix it for a week.

Seeing Coyotes multiple times a day now. Local news says they are bulking up for winter. I need to go out with my pup every time she goes outside now.

Been trying GPT-5 and so far, not impressed. I ask for a plan and it dumps a bunch of non-working code I didn’t ask for. Start a new chat, and it carries over things I said in an unrelated one. #GPT5 #TechFail #MachineLearning #AIFail #GenerativeAI

My VSCode updated and now it has AI chat like Windsurf and Cursor. Great. Maybe I need to go back to NeoVIM to get away from this forced AI stuff.

Outside of politics, gerrymandering is just called cheating. #Gerrymandering #VoterSuppression #Democracy #Redistricting #PoliticalGames

Remember when people lost their minds over $3 coffee and $2 avocado toast… because a billionaire’s media told us to fight each other instead of him? #LateStageCapitalism #AvocadoToast #MediaManipulation #EatTheRich #ClassWarfare

On a long flight, my daughter spotted the new Snow White movie and asked to watch it. She didn’t even make it halfway through before asking me to turn it off. Said she didn’t like it and asked for Sonic 3 instead. #KidsKnowBest #SnowWhite #Sonic3 #TravelWithKids #ParentLife #InFlightEntertainment

A parent told me today their kid’s favorite book is the one I wrote. Said he carried it everywhere and his first word was “Turtle” the main character! I can’t describe how that felt. Just… wow. #WritingCommunity #KidLit #IndieAuthor #MadeMyDay

Just re-read Ferdinand. No bullies, no rescues, just a bull who knows what makes him happy. The movie misses the point by adding action and conflict. He didn’t need to fight to be strong. He already was. #Ferdinand #ChildrensBooks #LetKidsBe #QuietStrength #BookVsMovie

Shared that study showing experienced devs were slower when using LLMs. Someone “debunked” it by linking to Hacker News comments where devs say they’re faster with LLMs. Truly the gold standard of peer review. 🤦‍♂️

Weirdest thing I’ve read online in a while: “Every animal has enough brains to tan its own hide.”

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

AI makes experienced developers *slower*. This isn’t the first paper to reach that conclusion. metr.org/Early_2025_A...

Battery powered! USB-C to charge. Goodbye AA batteries! #Electronics #LiPoBattery #USBC #TP4056 #BreadboardPower #DIYCircuits

Soldered up a TP4056 charger so I can run my circuits off a Li-Po battery with USB-C charging! The connector that came on the battery was too small, so I crimped on a new JST-XH to match the charger. Solid 3.9V out. #Electronics #LiPo #USBC #TP4056 #BreadboardPower

Ignore that it’s a snake nest right now. All the modules are finally talking to each other! debounce, logic, display, pulse, everything’s alive and working! Next step: figure out how to wire it together on a perfboard. #breadboard #electronics #logicgates #perfboard

📘 Just picked up This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Only two letters in and already loving the rhythm and sharpness. It’s weird, poetic, and dangerous in all the right ways. Time to get emotionally wrecked. #NowReading #TimeWar #Hopepunk #SpecFic #BookTokVibes

Socrates: Here’s an allegory warning how even the greatest society can fall due to ignorance. 2,400 years later: Bro this totally proves ultra-intelligent aliens have a crystal city under the Atlantic Ocean. #PhilosophyFail #PlatoDidntMeanThat #AlienTok #AtlantisTruthers #StayInTheCave

Light from galaxy MoM-z14 took 13.57 BILLION years to reach us… and now that galaxy is 33.8 BILLION light-years away! Space itself is expanding faster than light! 🤯 #Astrophysics #SpaceIsWeird #Cosmology #MindBlown

Just had a face-off with a #bear taking out the trash! 😱 Less than 10ft away, clinging to a tree by the driveway. He went for the bin, not me. I backed into the garage, got the car, flashed lights, honked. He stared me down for what felt like forever before finally moving off. I got the bin inside.

🛠️ My first (messy!) attempt at diagramming the full display driver for my project. ✔ 4 bi-color LEDs (red/green) ✔ Individual on/off control ✔ Selectable flashing or steady ✔ 555 timer + CMOS logic + PNPs #electronics #breadboard #circuits #555timer #CMOS #LEDs

Using AI to turn trail cam images into short videos is the best use case I’ve found for it so far.

Updated my LED driver circuit: swapped the NPN/PNP pair for two PNPs and tweaked the LED resistors for brighter, cleaner output. After testing and tuning, the green and red LEDs look great at 3V. Love seeing it all come together! #electronics #DIYcircuits #breadboard #transistors #Vcc3V

Google search is dead. Executives are redirecting SEO money into getting the big LLMs to recommend the products.

#AI is getting crazy. From a single photo of deer in my yard to this.

“Fuck based terraforming” is now my favorite.

Finished my most complex breadboard project yet! a logic-driven LED panel with switches to toggle each LED on/off, a button to switch red/green, and a master flash control tied to a 555. All working solid or blinking on demand! This took a lot of work. Very happy #electronics #logicgates #555timer

Daughter said she was going to get me a Sonic toy for Father’s Day, and she did! After giving it to me she informed me that it’s a “family” toy and I needed to share it with her. #FathersDay #Sonic

My kids keep taking and losing my combs, there are over two dozen hidden somewhere in this house. So now I just 3D print a new one whenever I need it. Way easier (and faster) than getting mad and tearing the house apart. Maybe one day I’ll find a secret comb stash. #parenting #3Dprinting #dadlife

My daughter calls Star Trek: Lower Decks “that show where that one guy didn’t wash his hands.” #StarTrek #LowerDecks #parenting #kidslogic #startreklife

I’m looking for a good historical analogy for how people are treating AI. Too many people treat it like some omnipotent God voice that knows all and tells the truth. The reality is that it’s applied advanced statistics. The truth is that it’s closer to a calculator than intelligence.

Wife won this game. I like the casting sticks a lot better than the dice. I was sooo close to winning and then she knocked my piece off the board. #RoyalGameOfUr

Social media is wild. We flagged a bug that let people get free products. Management said, “Ship it anyway.” Not even an hour later, there’s a TikTok showing exactly how to exploit it. I’ve never felt more like a dev in a slow-motion train wreck.

People need to go to jail for this, and Dems need to be out there saying that people need to go to jail for this

In the meeting: “AI did this in 5 hours. A dev would’ve taken a week.” Sure, if the dev got a clear spec, no meetings, and only had to solve this one thing, it’d take them few hours too. But yeah, let’s pretend that’s a fair comparison. #AIhype #devlife