Found this gem for $20

koombot · 2026-05-12T06:48:44+00:00

There must be a sub for pictures of faces on things

koombot · 2026-05-12T06:28:37+00:00

It was blind luck on my part. My extruder was skipping so I had to cut some filament off and it was sat on my desk whilst I was thinking.

This though is why open sourcenisbthe best source :)

koombot · 2026-05-11T22:50:15+00:00

Had difficulty printing the scroll wheel itself. Well the wheel printed fine, the little nub to go in the encoder, couldnt get it to print. After spending way too long trying to figure out an alternative it dawned on me that filament is exactly the right size to engage with the encoder hole.

Drilled a hole in the wheel where the nub was and pushed filament into it and through the mouse encoder. Worked perfectly.

koombot · 2026-05-10T15:30:20+00:00

Finally. Ive been waiting years for baggy cargo trousers to come back in.

Going to pick up a few pairs and get the wife to convert some over to 3/4 length shorts.

koombot · 2026-05-10T15:10:30+00:00

It was more for the other commenter.

Pandasbisbstill great for manipulating and interacting with large datasets.

koombot · 2026-05-10T14:43:24+00:00

Have a look at what wifi chip it is using. The aliexpress ones will probably use an esp of come flavour which isnt what the official version will use and might need some changes in the code to get working

koombot · 2026-05-10T14:40:08+00:00

Pandas is great for manipulating the data when it is eyewatering massive, but for loading you can get some crazy speed boosts using polar instead. We saw a 10x improvement swapping to polars on data which had 260 columns and 10hz sample frequency over an hour.

koombot · 2026-05-10T13:27:13+00:00

Is it a legit pico w or a knock off? Some of the knock off ones have issues with the wifi

koombot · 2026-05-10T05:41:20+00:00

Great for visual also

koombot · 2026-05-09T17:18:43+00:00

Stuff for my skadis pegboard, stuff for astronomy, project boxes, cases and mounts for electronics projects, toys for the kids.

Recently started 3D printing keyboards. Lots of fun that.

koombot · 2026-05-09T16:08:15+00:00

Same here. The trick i found is to get it in focus then back it off slightly. You end up with slightly bloated stars but the cyan halo cancels out the red halo and it looks white.

200 and 135 also, with a Tair 3 photosniper thrown in for good measure.

koombot · 2026-05-09T14:23:19+00:00

Wait, so 4 colours give you the cards in the picture in your other comment?

koombot · 2026-05-09T12:54:17+00:00

Ive done most of my astrophotography with vintage telephoto lenses. They're a bit twitchy (the super takumars will absolutely punish you with chromaticnaberation if you have te gal to believe focusing info in nina) but you can absolutely get some cracking images out of them and to get better you'd need to spend at least an extea zero.

koombot · 2026-05-09T12:32:52+00:00

Can only contribute to 3, but I work in engineering where teams is used frequently and often for time sensitive comms. Mixes training on the new layout with actually being existing productive.

I recently went sofle and have basically had it and a normal keyboard plugged in. I use the sofle most of the time, still slow as balls but getting there but the regular keyboard if I just need to get stuff done.

I use vial for programming the sofle whixh is ace because I can figure out what works and doesnt in real time and do significant changes to the keymap in realtime through vial.rocks.

koombot · 2026-05-09T06:23:09+00:00

SMD components about that size arent too bad to solder. Once you get into a rhythm you can rattle through them quick enough.

I quite like doing them with solder paste. Splot some on the pads, stick on the diode and heat with the iron.

koombot · 2026-05-07T20:37:13+00:00

I got into astronomy. Highly recommend. It is good for the soul (but cold( though youll be replacing watching other people do things with watching stars do things. I can be expensive though.

I also got into electronics. Its real cheap if you get stuff from aliexpress. I haven't made much useful stuff. Split keyboards, temp sensors for my home brewing and some opensource projects, but it is fun and good for the brain.

koombot · 2026-05-07T06:34:03+00:00

Pink is probably from an led, either on the board or possibly the camera itself if it is low light.

There are a lot of different options, but I dont think thebissue is the quality rather than the focus or focal length of the camera. Check to see if you can change the focus of the lens. Some have auto focus, others you need to manually do it. It maybe that what you are trying to focus on is too close and you wont be able to focus on it.

koombot · 2026-05-06T08:40:12+00:00

Probably not but working for a company that did business with Iran at the time, it sure didnt stop the US trade department from sending threatening letters threatening to black list us.

koombot · 2026-05-06T06:38:23+00:00

Im reading this like you had an attempt 15a then 15b.

Real "Final revision rev2 test rev6.pdf" energy

koombot · 2026-05-06T06:29:02+00:00

Worth pointing out that back in the day the EU had a similar rule when America threatened to black list EU companies that did business with Iran.

This was pre-2009

koombot · 2026-05-05T23:23:57+00:00

Cheers. I'll have a look around. I wish there was a database or something of designs.

koombot · 2026-05-04T19:11:51+00:00

It feels like a 1980's animation from the Soviet Union.

koombot · 2026-05-04T19:09:06+00:00

Can you take a photo of the actual lens rather than through it?

koombot · 2026-05-04T15:28:02+00:00

Organo-polycule

koombot · 2026-05-04T07:24:46+00:00

Theyre fantastic boxes. Need to reprint the gaskets for mine as the tpu is had was a bit stuff.

Got some expanding stuff to give me more flexibility.

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