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Here are the toots from my Mastodon account. If you’re into ham radio and technology this is a great inclusive server with an awesome mascot called Alex.
I wonder if the “Keybow” is the first mechanical keyboard powered by a Pi. The boards I’ve built have used Arduino clones.This looks fun, and that PCB plate is very pretty.
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/keybow
→ View toot on mastodon.radioI love that the presenters of the SpaceX launch webcast are engineers ( https://www.spacex.com/webcast)
→ View toot on mastodon.radioA great and funny illustration of selection bias (and probably some other things)
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
→ View toot on mastodon.radioNice idea: triple ended USB cable with a built in hub.
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/sparkfun-cerberus-usb-cable-6ft
also:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/sparkfun-hydra-power-cable-6ft
→ View toot on mastodon.radio“you’ve not lived if you’ve not ggVG=”
“impossible to exit so might as well learn how to use it”
→ View toot on mastodon.radio#TIL: /dev/serial/by-id/ has persistently named serial devices on #Linux.
Perfect if your serial ports keep swapping over when you reboot or plug/unplug things, just use these in places of /dev/ttyUSB$no.
I don’t know when this magical feature appeared but it beats messing with dev rules. 💻📻
WSJT-X 2.0 GA has dropped. Let’s hope for a swift and orderly adoption!
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
… and the all important release notes:
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
→ View toot on mastodon.radioOhh, just realised I passed my Foundation Exam a year ago yesterday!
→ View toot on mastodon.radioFascinating stuff on NASA TV: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public Not much to see, but the prep it takes to open the hatches is impressive!
“Select the 10 amp setting on the multimeter”
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