I recapped (x10) the old Freestyle and cleaned the head. Sound better but freq coverage is lacking. The drive belts were strangely still intact, but are slipping/distorted. The 1-sided PCB was a mess with solderblob near-shorts. I only removed the worst. Noname brand (Sportie 3238P), but w. SONY IC.

Went to vacuum the attic. Suddenly I'm repairing a wireless ball mouse (which linux handled without a driver), installing an LED in a flash light, and reconditioning a board game (west-germany era), and building a bookshelf for storage out of wood scraps.

FIFA creates the "Soccer Win Prize - Number 1" for the US team following embarrassment.

So hot I made a fan. This 20+yo fan draws 0.125A at 4.5V, which I think gives it about a day of runtime on 3AA, but it can run on anything up to 12V of course. Had to put trains away as I have no (permanent) space even for N-gauge.

Alright, I just did some image searches and both ddg and google are no longer swamped with pinterest results but seem to prioritize the original source sites. Is this a thing that just changed?

Whittled a pear wood butter knife and a cake spade handle.

Web novel xianxia: MC is a cold deathmachine, never bowing. Live action xianxia: MC is a nervous lecherous clutz *constant clown sound effects*

In case you've ever wondered why the eagles didn't just fly Frodo into the volcano, they were busy rigging the black gates for demolition and digging sink hole traps, then patiently waiting for Frodo's signal. The sink hole traps, not in the book, naturally came as a big surprise to the orcs!

Riding a dusty speedway bike might make you look somewhat cool in the apocalypse, but they make a lot of sound that will alert the zombies... who will soon catch up to you because with the terrible fuel efficiency and deliberately minimal fuel tank you likely won't even get out of the city.

Bless that little reader view button in the firefox url bar. So handy for quickly getting to the actual article texts.

If Summer of '69 was written today it would be... Summer of 2011. (Arab Spring & Occupy, Kim Jong Un, Tsunami & Fukushima, Norway terrorist guy, Curiosity launch, Minecraft, etc.)

Managed to actually fix a broken mechanical pencil. It was a metal one so it was just blocked and had some tension and alignment problems. The plastic ones have feeder mechanisms that tend to physically break though. Anyways, that needle in the detachable eraser is a poker for clearing blockages.

I decided to check out the original Flash Gordon comics from 1934 onward, and I have to say, I wasn't quite prepared for how much bondage and whipping there would be. Perhaps that scene in the 1980 movie was on point then.

Was pulling Dandelions and this one's a bit weird.

Nothing make me quit an isekai novel faster than the author deciding to needlessly flesh out just how drab and dreary the MC's original life was by wallowing in it for 2 chapters. And then it's immediately contradicted by some hot person finding MC interesting. What did they find interesting? WHAT?

Found my old telescope. Periscope. Microscope! No object glass so I used clear plastic packaging. Also booted up my gameless Switch and downloaded a random thing: Teravit. A sort of freemium Minecraft/roblox by the C21 guys. Interesting engine with subblock offsets, but the story play is tedious.

Pict slide of Chaos forces corrupting the ventifacts just outside of an irradiated and recently abandoned out-city on †Khernobol Secundus. A lush but now nearly extinct form of poaceae monoculture covered much of the planet, seemingly as resistant to chaos taint as tread of boot.

Made another island, this time on masonite.

Island work. I don't have a proper 4' board for this, nor enough blue paint, so I'm using binders. Terrain mats suck and consistently look like awful photobashes. Handy to put away though. I could imagine one working for a calm sea as it's quite flat... and naturally gloss.

The whole Sora thing just makes me feel they're up to something, like... We have reshuffled our staff and silicon and are proud to announce our new improved services: Open Chattel, and The Mordor Integrity Platform.

Working on some ships. Paintjob mostly from the '90s. No flag yet. The metal version of the wargalley is more realistically proportioned, with guns around the right size. These plastic guns are humongous. Rigging is strings threaded through the hull. Sails are folded and curved paper.

More 2mm Manowar, mainly ideas for undead (missing from the game afaik), but also some other thoughts and doodles.

Man 'o War with additional 2mm stuff for scale, including the old WHFB cardboard buildings. I think an entire fleet (3 chucka +3 drilla +3 wyvern +1 hulk) might fit inside one of those rectangular classic boxes. Nowadays parts are not arranged like this, but like a spider web from injection point.

Long ago, before the www, a porn site was just a place in the woods where some random dude dropped a magazine. Somehow this was universally done. If you go to an alien pre-internet world there's probably a magazine like that laying wrinkled in the purple mushroom-tree wilderness.

Oh man, Man o' War is kinda pricey, looking at sold ebay prices. 50-90€ per model then 200 for the main box. Still got my box and an Orc fleet. Easy to print&play the game. But is it good? Bet that if Bandai made it, they could pack 4 entire fleets into a single RG box for like 4000 Yen.

Manowar again, with some additional figures for scale. The scale is unknown, but some speculate 1:900 or thereabout. Redid the Ork Wyvern as the snakey old WHFB model. Might need to put a trio on the unit stand.

Manowar Ork stuff doesn't easily translate to plastic because of the wood grain, but there are some workarounds, like adding some detail work. Hard to address the spire's tiled roof though. An outlook window might work. Figured out a way to do the wheel and sides of the hulk as flippable parts.

Slightly modified Dwarf Gyrocopter as a sprue. Tried to maximize the parts that can be flipped (made symmetrical).

More corpse marker thoughts. Moulds would work well here since you only need to provide one or two per unit type and the DIY aspect isn't too difficult or sensitive. Also only need to tool one half of the corpse figure, and 6mm figs are quite small. Demons might poof rather than corpse but whatevs

Just got scammed. Someone idiot pastry chef had put vanilla cream instead of almond paste in my pricey Semla and put it in fine print on the box. Disgusting behaviour.

Miniature thoughts: Corpse bases would work quite well in 6mm as they can be quite flat and generic. I think it's best to make them irregular so they don't look like active units and clutter up. Maybe they could be make using greenstuff blobs & stamps. Also, old Skaven Doomwheel as a plastic kit?

Reading a xianxia story. Undergarments come up. What did historical Chinese undergarments look like? Expecting a Fundoshi. I search. Dudou? Baofu? Xinyi? They all look like undersized aprons. So people went commando? I'm getting naked-butt-woman-at-stove-wearing-only-an-apron vibes.

Drew some megaman stuff a little too late, just for fun. Not really keeping to the X style.

If you completely mirror a right handed human on a cellular and neural level, do they become left handed? Maybe they'd just break because of some molecular handedness thing. Anyways, just a random thought.

A true xmas movie. The box. Open it. We have such sights to show you.

Ah! Warnings be damned Cold draft over keys—tip tap! ~*Squints at AO3*~

Weathering test. But which Toyota model is this? Looks like a 1980s Cressida but the headlights and bumper is not right. I guessed when painting them in.

Huuu...? Someone pulled the Arabic numerals thing again. Pretty sure it was done in the early GWB days.

The parts of an Agfa Snapscan 1236U 1999 datecode PSU. Can't just throw stuff away when they might be useful! The ceramics are looking a bit toasty though. The heatsinks naturally wouldn't desolder but I was able to just twist them out.

It appears Nokia still makes phones and they're mostly dumbphones? They sell a few cheap ones like the 105 2nd Ed which might have 12 days standby. But the new 8210 has this spec: Standby time (Single SIM, 4G), up to: 27.3 days

Uwaaaah... It seems I'm getting rugpulled by privatized tech fucking over infrastructure (killing the 3G net). I don't think my Nokia 5800 derivative supports 4G since it was released right at the end of 3G. Though it's not on the official list of models that operators will force people to trash.

Alright electronics people, I've got three questions: > Can 9V PWM ripple at 3.9KHz be fully smoothed? > My smoothed out V from BD140 varies greatly by load, which is bad because train models vary. Substitute? Mosfet? > The BD140 seems to whine when it's struggling to start trains. BJTs can whine?

Sees 100 transistors for € 1. 09 from ebay seller. ( Buy it now ) ( Add to cart ) ( Make offer ) I'll... make you.. an offer... € 1. 07 -- or I'm walking away! You think you're the only guy selling transistors on ebay, huh!? I'm walking--this is me walking! Big steps. About to turn a corner now.

Visst kan man säga att man "stänger på" en apparat? Strömbrytare är ju slutna/stängda eller öppna, "closed / open circuit". Man stänger strömbrytaren, som en dörr ritad uppifrån, i på läget. Men hur funkar då "stänga av"? Jo, vippbrytare har tre poler. Man stänger den åt hållet där kretsen är av.

Got KiCAD running on Mint no probs (didn't use the flatpak). Started fooling around. Breadboarded some of it (without the MCU) and it seems to work with my DF200 diesel, though I'm unclear about some of the safety of the design still. Was surprised my wacky LDR thing was actually somewhat reliable.

Made a lid-sealed terrarium diorama back in early October. The helpful bugs I put in all died. But now springtails appeared. Plants appear to be thriving. Sadly the jar was a little low for this kind of growth.

It could be possible to make a cassette player that fits inside of the tape itself (i.e. a self playing tape), though the R/W head would end up on the other side of the tape. It wouldn't be compatible with a regular player, but might make an interesting novelty item. Motors would go in the holes.

Love interests in Fantasy for men: She was a wretched, ugly looking homeless person, but oh wow did she clean up nicely - 10/10! For women: The dark stranger rudely threw a fat wad of cash in my face and mysteriously disappeared after I insulted him. I hate him! Ah, I can't stop thinking about him.

While waiting for my package I started looking for a space to see if I could fit a model railway anywhere. Technically I could fit it on my office desk. It's all about choosing the right curve radii. I would need to build a platform up for terrain and lake/mining pit. Stole stencil from product img