A body in FreeCAD with a selected surface
Result after extrusion
TIL: If you select a surface in #FreeCAD you can extrude it with the extrusion tool, without a sketch!
ChatGPT generated AI image of a wire nut to WAGO adapter
You asked for it
A review from the April 1988 Up top, the aforementioned article title, and a picture of the machine itself; the grey machine doesn't look too dissimilar from modern pizzabox computers, with a 5.25" disk drive where a modern pizzabox would have a CD drive, and a detached clickey keyboard that's not too far from IBM standard. The article touts such features as the enhanced video RAM ('an expansive 64K'), enhanced CP/M, support for multiple operating systems
CLOSE UP: The Commodore 128D
On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
An AI generated circuit for a classic 555 timer IC based autofire. Many components miss connections, nearly everything is mislabeled, there’s a transistor that doesn’t make any sense and many more things that render this utterly useless. It looks plausible at the surface if you don’t know how to read schematics but it won’t work at all (you would even have trouble building it in the first place).
A viewer sent me an email, asking me to look over a schematic for an autofire circuit that he had a generative AI create for him.
This is the circuit he sent me.
It doesn’t make any sense.
I sent him a circuit that works from an old magazine I used before.
Don’t fricking trust AI with anything.
Privater Solarstrom soll zur Kostenfalle werden – durch neue Netzentgelte, sogar für bestehende Anlagen.
Ohne Bürgerbeteiligung. Ohne eure Stimme.
Martin von gewaltignachhaltig & ich starten deshalb eine gemeinsame Aktion. Wir müssen bis 30.9. Druck machen!
I'm experimenting with a way to show how DOS games render themselves.
Basically I'm recording a lossless video of the game running on a very slow (virtual) CPU, then removing all the frames where nothing happens, and I'm playing it back sped up a lot.
Working on fixing this PC speaker set - one of the channels had a severe noise, measurements indicate a faulty amplifier IC
HP85 Tischrechner (ca. Anfang 1980er) und Peripherie. Wurde viel eingesetzt für Ingenieursberechnungen und als Mess- und Steuercomputer. #VCFe #VCFe24 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #hp85
Windows 95 Setup error telling that 0 bytes of ram is available but it requires at least 3000000
At least, seems to be an improvement over Windows 95 😂
(if I remember right this was a system with >1GB RAM though)
If any of my followers want to read about the Pentium in German, one of my articles has been translated:
www.heise.de/hintergrund/...
So my #Windows 11 just started an upgrade when booting, without my permission. I suppose it's the latest feature upgrade which is now blocking me from doing some work.
Completely unacceptable 😖
#Repair session in the #LabCorner 😃
Our toaster did not keep down anymore. Fortunately it only needed some cleaning, magnet and electronics are still intact
Thanks, that gave me a new shell alias idea
$ 🐱 /etc/issue
Armbian 24.5.0-trunk.493 bookworm \l
Yeah, for me it immedately fixed the issue. Its already known for some time with no progress so far: github.com/notepadqq/no...
Multimeter range switch inside with a ring of resisors.
Inside it is a pure beauty.
Did you post something like 46 75 63 6b 20 45 6c 6f 6e ?😱
In the past I have used the Thickness tool in #FreeCAD to create cases with a bottom, but today I learned that the bottom is omitted if you also select the opposite face 🙂
Es gibt also ein #Skyrim inspiriertes #RPG, dass komplett in Excel läuft. Ich glaube jetzt habe ich echt alles gesehen... 😂
Hier kann man es kostenlos herunterladen:
storyteller-blog.com/2024/05/17/f...
Ich dachte der Trend ist momentan, alles in einem PDF laufen zu lassen 🫣
I'm going to document my very scientific way of reverse engineering a PCB 1/? 🧵
This Quick Reference Guide from 1984 lists two which were available for design in 1982, but the only one which starts with "10" has a larger pin count than the one in your picture ... ia902903.us.archive.org/3/items/Ferr...
Finished the boot control for my audio station project. When the LED is constantly on, the web server on the #raspberrypi is ready. The only drawback is that the boot process takes quite some time, a lot longer than shown in this video 🫤 - probably need to analyze the boot sequence some day ...
BTW: The snap version of notepadqq did not even start, it coredumped immediately after launch.
Hmmm - I did a fresh install of #Ubuntu 24.10 yesterday and already observed two annoying bugs:
GNOME terminal is crashing when detaching a tab (workaround is to disable using colors from the system theme);
notepadqq is crashing after a couple of seconds (workaround is to disable automatic backups)
Hex dump on the command line using the hexdump tool
#linux shell alias tip:
alias hdump="hexdump -e '\"%08.8_ax: \" 8/1 \"%02X \" \" \" 8/1 \"%02X \" \" \" ' -e '\"|\" 16/1 \"%_p\"\"|\n\"'"
Allows to quickly create hex dumps from the command line:
KiCad Version 9.0.0 Release
The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest major version release. See the blog post on the KiCad website for more information about this release.
www.kicad.org/blog/2025/02...
Every time I visit the @jetbrains.com website, I get such warm memories ☺️
#retro #borland #turbovision
The LED's driver transistor keeps the GPIO at High level while the LED is on (2,5V are sufficient - for some reason the LED is high side driven) and when the LED goes off, the internal pulldown sets the GPIO to low, resulting in shutting down the #raspberry
The Pi is now also properly shut down when turning off the audio station. The station has an LED which goes off when the power button is pressed, but the station keeps power for some time to perform it's own shutdown - I have connected the LED signal to the shutdown GPIO of the Pi 😃
#electronics
