It is with great sadness that I am doing what I would once have thought unthinkable. Following Salim Abdool Karim's superb Faraday Lecture 10 days ago, i have decided to return my own Faraday prize, awarded in 2014.

The silence of the Royal Society in the face of Elon Musk's rampage (a member of the RS since 2018) across US science is incomprehensible to me.

We must all draw the line somewhere in the face of authoritarian attacks and this is mine.
https://www.ft.com/content/877853df-1687-4d1f-940b-9eefc0cf69c0?accessToken=zwAAAZdYtYr2kdOHeFPfFodNH9OUC57vwM9pwA.MEUCIQDNG6kcQyHa-g6Kx4G9NHE2ofD36kR8OX0yEu-KfXlV0QIgcmMFKTaT90y42QfwQTWb05khk6thpQPe-JvIGkaZzQY&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=5fbecded-0dc9-419a-b064-cda0dee0d73a

@bloor looks like a May bug loads of them about at the moment.

@flashingjanet amazing! Thank you

@flashingjanet are you able
To provide any details on the design? Type of LEDs and how you diffused them

@psfshr use a heatgeeks approved installer

@revk surely the “ssshhhh” sound like in Airplane 2 would be better

Would anyone be interested in trying to revive an old Tandy 102? Mine seems to have developed a fault and won't boot. I'd be willing to let it go to a new home for the cost of shipping it, or even less if you talk nicely. I'd like to see it go to a good home. This is part of #mygaragegems, released a bit early because I will be at the North Bay Python 2025 conference most of the day tomorrow.
https://brainwagon.surge.sh/blog/2025_04_25_day_012_tandy_102/

@gigabecquerel @wellness_director also everyone has pronouns… ?

The LED deltoidal hexacontahedron is complete! 60 identical PCB sides covered with 3D printed diffusers. Two #Pixelblaze controllers work in sync to provide a fast frame rate for patterns on the 1200 LEDs.

@bloor got to be a “two sheds” joke in here somewhere…

@mansr @revk Lenz’s Law

New York's subway has two advantages over London's tube. It was built to allow all night running, which is good for shift workers and clubbers. And its seats are hard plastic, so they can be properly cleaned. The fabric on London's tubes and buses is filthy and disgusting.

@RPBook contact the Royal Air Force club in London, they have a huge aviation art collection and a very knowledgeable committee that curates it. If you have any trouble getting a good POC come back to me.

Baked beans are significantly improved with the addition of a little malt vinegar.

@anon_opin 💯

@shawnhymel @zephyr currently working my way through your FreeCAD series, it is absolutely top draw. Thank you. Are you planning a @kicad guide as well? Would be fantastic if you could. Other YT tutorials are… mixed ☺️

@Clare @kate 👋

@fast_code_r_us this reminds me of the Simpsons games on my original game boy ! So much nostalgia

Severance is brilliant. It can probably survive a third series and remain brilliant. But then it must stop. We should not allow it to be ruined by America's relentless desire to suck life out of any decent creative product.

@G6eorge @jbz Would you believe this has already been done... over 10 years ago!

https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/mp3-player-lib-with-example.27059/

However, it's GPL3 license, so it remains a separate library. You can use it together with Teensy Audio library. But these 2 libraries can't be merged, because the main Teensy Audio library is MIT license.