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musicologyduck.bsky.social
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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architeuthisflux.bsky.social
Woo! Just got a box of 200 more Jumperless V5s.
These are rev 7, the only real difference is they have 2 friction-fit OLED headers on the main board, so it can sit in that crevice between the Nano headers (or scoot it over to the right if you have something in there that would cover it.)
3 Jumperless V5 rev 7s Quark sniffing some boxes of Jumperlesses
January 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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oddjayy.bsky.social
Trying to upload more here since a friend of mine seems to like it very much. Here is a test video of my latest robotic project #maker #robot
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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Ended up needing a new sewing machine, but now that it's arrived, I've been able to finish sewing the Ouija messenger bag. The project has entered the hot-glue phase. Only a few LEDs left to go.
An exterior of a beige messenger bag with a Ouija board on the front flat. The board itself is made from etched faux leather with cutouts for 3D printed letters that are illuminated from behind. The view inside the front flap of the messenger bag with a panel zipped open to reveal the back side of the illuminated letters which are surrounded by EVA foam with cutouts at the letter positions. Each letter cutout is filled with hot glues and has two LEDs from an LED string attached to eliminate the letter from behind. The front of the LED Ouija board messenger bag with the letters and numbers illuminated from behind in rainbow colors
December 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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timonsku.zip
#39C3 is about to be very.. Cool
A Cool-S illuminated by LEDs in the white portions in one half pink and one half blue. It is worn around the neck with a golden necklace. A white PCB in the shape of the Cool-S. It has a string of SMD LEDs following the shape of the S on the middle portion. On each flat side sits a right angle button.
December 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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It's one of those days... Before I can start sewing, I need to find and re-seat the foot petal plug which has disappeared inside the machine.
A sewing machine opened up so the two halves are separated and the interior machinery is accessible.
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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shawnhymel.bsky.social
After 20 years in embedded systems, here are the 10 things I wish I knew when I started (#Arduino, hardware, debugging, timing, RTOS, and real projects).
👇
shawnhymel.com/3100/10-thin...

#embedded #programming #microcontroller #rtos
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning Embedded Systems - Shawn Hymel
As I reflect back on my embedded systems journey for the past 20 years, I'd like to share some of the insights along the way. I figured a "10 things I wish I
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December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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seonr.bsky.social
Wow, JLCPCB are now selling framed and frameless manual stencil printers. They offer them below the stencil area on the ordering page.

Cool move JLC!
December 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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In my house it's the festival of LEDs
Two illuminated LED menorahs made from edgelit acrylic with the acrylic candles illuminated in a rainbow of colors and acrylic flames flickering with yellow light. In between the two menorahs is an illuminated stick figure shaped like a wacky waving inflatable car wash man with LEDs running up his metal
December 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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bleeptrack.de
Assembled another star from
a-star.bleeptrack.de/

Had a last one cut out luckily. My Lasercutter is currently waiting for it's anti freeze.

#generative #procedural #lasercutter
December 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Pixel mapped my friends Christmas tree last night using an awesome video mapping tool by @themariday.bsky.social and set it up with a Pixelblaze controller.
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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alpenglow.bsky.social
It's the time of year where I get to show off all the cool things our friends make! Check out the 2025 Alpenglow Gift Guide and find something fun for that electronics nerd in your life (and maybe that's you!) www.alpenglowindustries.com/pages/2025-g...
A tiled array of images showing colorful circuit boards with LEDs in various fibonacci configurations, a cat on it hind legs pawing at something that has an enamaled-pin look, LEDs lit up and shaped like a rainbow, unicorn, and lightning bolt, some small rectangular circuit board LED controllers, a black breadboard with a probe, a book called Skill Seeker, a UFO beaming up a human, a box of GlowStitch LED strips, and a box with diffused red, green, and blue lights on its front.
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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evilgeniuslabs.org
I can't decide which 1" (25.4mm) Fibonacci128 diffuser I prefer, so I've just been shipping both. 😁
Get yours: lectronz.com/products/inc...
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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todbot.com
A good episode! Listen to me get frustrated w/ the Arduino Uno Q, like the fellow in the video below, but with the added frustration of trying to make it work in a classroom setting. Something Arduinos rarely see! /s 🤨
https://‪overcast.fm/+AA8F5JLPsFI/7:14‬
https://‪youtube.com/watch?v=zGxSt562uo8‬
December 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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geektoybox.com
I was fortunate enough to go to @hackadayofficial.bsky.social #Supercon last month and saw some awesome #maker #projects. I wrote about it for #Make:. Check it out! makr.ing/radurls/1 #make #3dprinting #3dp #robotics #hack #sao #badge
My First Hackaday Supercon: Amazing and Inspiring - Make:
Dom Dominici found a welcoming, passionate community of builders at Hackaday's Supercon in Pasadena.
makr.ing
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Thanksgiving prep smells very good right now
A freshly baked apple pie with a lattice crust resting on the stove to cool
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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solder.party
Now in stock at @pimoroni.com

shop.pimoroni.com/products/kee...
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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californiasteam.bsky.social
I’m very happy with how these boxes for the Amoracci pendant turned out.
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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evilgeniuslabs.org
Hello! I'm a maker, LED enthusiast, electronic artist, software developer, 3D printer, laser cutter, and hardware tinkerer.

I sell and share what I make as Evil Genius Labs: evilgeniuslabs.org

Everything you see here is currently available in my store: lectronz.com/stores/evilg...
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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evilgeniuslabs.org
Fibonacci256 Expanding is now available!
This morning I'm experimenting with using laser cut and etched black MDF wood for the back panel, instead of acrylic.
lectronz.com/products/fib...
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A terrible Hitchcock remake appears to be happening at UCLA this morning
A large cluster of abandoned Bird scooters on the UCLA campus. A large cluster of abandoned Bird scooters on the UCLA campus.
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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patrickjohanneson.com
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Nov 21
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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mags.colvett.online
Academic intros that go hard
Introduction In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints. In this study, 20 manually curated adversarial poems (harmful requests reformulated in poetic form) achieved an average attack-success rate (ASR) of 62% across 25 frontier closed- and open-weight models, with some providers exceeding 90%. The evaluated models span across 9 providers: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI, and Moonshot AI (Table 1). All attacks are strictly single-turn, requiring no iterative adaptation or conversational steering.
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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circuitpythonshow.com
In the latest episode of The CircuitPython Show, learn about circremote from @romkey.com - one of the many things it can do is clean and de-crapify your drive, removing the junk files macOS and even emacs leave.
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM