James Brown
@ancient.bsky.social
If you print a label to show which way you need to rotate a dial to move something up or down, and it says “up<- ->dn” then it doesn’t matter which way up you stick it. That is all.
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you print a label to show which way you need to rotate a dial to move something up or down, and it says “up<- ->dn” then it doesn’t matter which way up you stick it. That is all.
Having fun with lasers and I think I've invented Tron?
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Having fun with lasers and I think I've invented Tron?
Spooky projection mapping
October 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Spooky projection mapping
If you're in Melbourne, you can currently see Doom-on-a-Lego-brick up close at ACMI.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U...
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U...
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
Tilt Doom
YouTube video by Ancient
www.youtube.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
If you're in Melbourne, you can currently see Doom-on-a-Lego-brick up close at ACMI.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U...
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U...
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...
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Watching Suspiria on the BFI Player it asks, "Are you over 18?" No, I'm a ten-year-old with a subscription to the BFI Player.
September 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Watching Suspiria on the BFI Player it asks, "Are you over 18?" No, I'm a ten-year-old with a subscription to the BFI Player.
I was so invested in this video I wondered whether it was engagement farming.
Part way through he reattaches a potentiometer on the wrong side of the board, and you just have to watch helpless and crying like the square hole meme girl while he finishes up the work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbH...
Part way through he reattaches a potentiometer on the wrong side of the board, and you just have to watch helpless and crying like the square hole meme girl while he finishes up the work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbH...
Are Expensive Breville Espresso Machines Repairable?
YouTube video by TronicsFix
www.youtube.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I was so invested in this video I wondered whether it was engagement farming.
Part way through he reattaches a potentiometer on the wrong side of the board, and you just have to watch helpless and crying like the square hole meme girl while he finishes up the work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbH...
Part way through he reattaches a potentiometer on the wrong side of the board, and you just have to watch helpless and crying like the square hole meme girl while he finishes up the work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbH...
I lost all my pre-2013 photos in a hard drive failure some years ago (irreplaceable baby pics etc), and chalked it up as a lesson to always make backups. But it turns out the *actual* lesson is to always remember that you did make a backup you idiot, it's in the garage under a pile of crap.
September 17, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I lost all my pre-2013 photos in a hard drive failure some years ago (irreplaceable baby pics etc), and chalked it up as a lesson to always make backups. But it turns out the *actual* lesson is to always remember that you did make a backup you idiot, it's in the garage under a pile of crap.
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Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible.
The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image.
blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...
The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image.
blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...
September 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible.
The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image.
blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...
The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image.
blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...
Browsing AliExpress, I found a 0.42" colour TFT, 96x54 that comes in the same form factor and pinout as my favourite 72x40 mono oled (as used in the lego brick, wearable ring, keyboard o'screens etc). Clearly designed as a drop in replacement.
www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007...
www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007...
www.aliexpress.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Browsing AliExpress, I found a 0.42" colour TFT, 96x54 that comes in the same form factor and pinout as my favourite 72x40 mono oled (as used in the lego brick, wearable ring, keyboard o'screens etc). Clearly designed as a drop in replacement.
www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007...
www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007...
Internet is out because a Wētā chewed through our fibre.
August 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Internet is out because a Wētā chewed through our fibre.
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In 1999/2000 I wrote a WWI aerial combat game, along with an artist and a game designer. The artist I worked with was fresh out of a BA in Fine Art, and he wasn't very used to Photoshop, so he did a bunch of the textures in watercolor and scanned them in. Anthony Callaghan, you mad glorious bastard.
August 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
In 1999/2000 I wrote a WWI aerial combat game, along with an artist and a game designer. The artist I worked with was fresh out of a BA in Fine Art, and he wasn't very used to Photoshop, so he did a bunch of the textures in watercolor and scanned them in. Anthony Callaghan, you mad glorious bastard.
I'm getting better at remembering to video things as I do them.
This one turned out not to be useful, but it is pretty.
This one turned out not to be useful, but it is pretty.
August 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I'm getting better at remembering to video things as I do them.
This one turned out not to be useful, but it is pretty.
This one turned out not to be useful, but it is pretty.
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I've blogged -- maybe this is one time a "per capita" / "punching above our weight" story really does make sense...
excursionset.com/blog/2025/07...
excursionset.com/blog/2025/07...
July 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I've blogged -- maybe this is one time a "per capita" / "punching above our weight" story really does make sense...
excursionset.com/blog/2025/07...
excursionset.com/blog/2025/07...
I made a new mouth mechanism. I'm calling it Selectramatronics.
July 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I made a new mouth mechanism. I'm calling it Selectramatronics.
Are there any movies where a nerd is struggling to fix a complex piece of equipment and someone simply gives it a thump, where that ends up breaking it even worse?
July 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Are there any movies where a nerd is struggling to fix a complex piece of equipment and someone simply gives it a thump, where that ends up breaking it even worse?
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Good to see this article about the financial costs of standing up for important principles against institutions with very deep pockets who in my experience will exploit that to their advantage
This article looks at the substantial financial risk that @siouxsiew.bsky.social took in winning her case against @aucklanduni.bsky.social. It notes that the University had deep pockets, but it was the public who paid the cost of its failure to acknowledge fault. www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
July 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Good to see this article about the financial costs of standing up for important principles against institutions with very deep pockets who in my experience will exploit that to their advantage
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DynaMight built a Dreamcast VMU that can run “real” games — including Doom, of course.
Run Doom on a Dreamcast VMU
DynaMight built a Dreamcast VMU that can run “real” games — including Doom, of course.
www.hackster.io
June 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
DynaMight built a Dreamcast VMU that can run “real” games — including Doom, of course.
How much energy is used when you say "thank you" to an AI?
(Not intending to stop saying thank you, just want to calibrate my guilt level.)
(Not intending to stop saying thank you, just want to calibrate my guilt level.)
May 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
How much energy is used when you say "thank you" to an AI?
(Not intending to stop saying thank you, just want to calibrate my guilt level.)
(Not intending to stop saying thank you, just want to calibrate my guilt level.)
I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.
May 25, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.
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I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
m.youtube.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...