Extreme Electronics

Tesla coils - HV experiments - 3D printing - Programming - Kits via @ExtKits - Notts Gaussfest Organiser - Electronics and shed science. - Retro computing

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Playing with forces I don't understand.

#HighVoltage #RetroComputing #Science #fedi22

Toots don't necessarily reflect the views of my employer. I work for myself.

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@TheBreadmonkey thay are called farts.

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2025-05-28

Does anyone here possibly have an MO disk to hand and can send me some high-resolution photos from different perspectives (Top, Bottom, Side, Open, Closed etc.)? And the exact dimensions (length, width, thickness) too, please. 😃

I mean these little guys.

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@gsuberland Are you aware of Paisley Cathedral/Abbey in Scotland, With its xenomorph gargoyles ?

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@gsuberland Remember, if you buy lots, you will probably also require a Geiger counter.

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@CleoQc Strangely, I got the idea from a friend just over the Canadian border.

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@CleoQc Ebay, "UK" seller. also Amazon, but I don't recommend them.

They are drain pipe ornaments, they are designed to fit on the bottom of a square drainpipe. I modified mine to take 2 x 40mm pipes instead.

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Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

So I could 3d print a small version 1.5 days or so. Or a pre done one for £24 inc delivery.

I think this was a bargain :)

#pondlife

A dragon "gargoyle" spitting water into a pond, surrounded by bricks.
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Extreme Kits ЖExtKits@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

Luminiferous Theremin Kit back in stock

Music - from LASERS

The Luminiferous Theremin Kit is a audio synthesiser musical instrument controlled by two laser time of flight sensors. These control Volume and pitch in a similar way to a traditional theremin, with no contact to the instrument whatsoever.

extkits.co.uk/product/luminife

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2025-05-28

This is the moment Rej's open source Z80 woke up and said hello!

After Zilog’s April 2024 announcement, ReJ quickly taped out a drop-in replacement to preserve retrocomputing and legacy systems.

Taped out on TT07, it's a landmark in democratizing chip design.

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@bread80 Quite often, faster than a UK company does :)

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@nblr or indeed hard drives that die much quicker than paper.

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

So I could 3d print a small version 1.5 days or so. Or a pre done one for £24 inc delivery.

I think this was a bargain :)

#pondlife

A dragon "gargoyle" spitting water into a pond, surrounded by bricks.
Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

When backups go bad...

ALL the companys backups are in a pile on the safe.

None are in the safe, none are out of the building.

Two are connected to the devices they "should" be backing up, so there's a bonus :)

Not sure last time they were swapped out.

The safe is in the same room as the devices its backing up. FTW

A pile of 2.5" hard drives on top of a safe
Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@jcrabapple @jacqueline yes, thank you (and to all contributors to fedi)

Still the most annoying thing about fedi.

Although it beats the c%£p out of the alternatives ;)

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@urbanfuzzy I'm sorry Ben, I can't do that.

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2025-05-28

It FEELS like it works because that's the target of its optimization function. The term "bullshit generator" is both colloquially and precisely true. It's a big expensive gradient-descent optimizer and *the metric it is optimizing* is PLAUSIBILITY. It is fooling you because it is DESIGNED to fool you, and that is the one thing it's good at. It's an infohazard. Thinking that your critical thinking skills are so good that you are too smart to be tricked *is a risk factor for letting it trick you*.

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@dtl decendents of stretch armstrong ?

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@jamesb my ring tone has been Pink floyd Time, ever since phones could do proper music files, not the ideal chill out notification :)

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@jacqueline or worse, number of replies appears to be 0, 90% of the time, until you interact with the toot.

Extreme ElectronicsExtelec@mstdn.social
2025-05-28

@TheBreadmonkey Breaking: Sysyphus still going...

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