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akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
I found and joined a friendly #urbansketchers group in my town. I hope that it will help me exercise more often, so as to slowly improve my skills. And also just spend some time in nice company and friendly atmosphere.

#watercolor #beginnerart #urbansketching #theWorkshop #theObservatory
A notebook with a watercolor painting of old buildings, held in hand. In background above, the actual buildings from the sketch, blurred.
September 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
"Universally condemned as the ugliest and most wretched device to ever fly people to Space - both by its enemies as well as beneficiaries - the Instigator was nevertheless considered uniquely critical for continued success of the most sensitive among the top […]

[Original post on merveilles.town]
A small Lego Blacktron build, with an open antenna dish at the front, and a smiling minifig sitting inside the cockpit. The build is mostly in black bricks, with a few yellow accents. A Lego Blacktron build of a small spaceship. The build is mostly in black bricks, with a few yellow accents. A hand is holding it above a simple background diorama mimicking a metallic asteroid surface. A small Blacktron Lego build of the "Instigator" is preparing to dock to a bigger one, the "Renegade" from 2025. A small Blacktron Lego build of the "Instigator" is successfully docked to a bigger one, the "Renegade" from 2025. Its pilot minifig is sitting inside with a smile.
June 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
#watercolor #beginnerart #poland #spring
a photo of a hand holding a sketchbook with a watercolor painting of a triangular yellow field between green trees topped with blue sky. the real field from the painting is visible above in the background
May 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
#theworkspace #keyboard
A dark, shadowy, indoors night photo of an LCD screen of an old Nokia 5110 on a small printed circuit board. Some colorful wires and plastic parts provide support behind, held together in the palm of a hand. A fragment of a laptop screen with some code is vaguely visible in the top-right area. The Nokia LCD shows: a low-res smiling Vault Boy on the right, and some text on the left in various languages: "Hello, hackerman! Cześć, Ciao, Привіт!"
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Also, the same board (Core51822) running off a single 1.2v rechargeable AA battery (thanks to the magic of a DC-DC step-up converter). The multimeter shows the milliamps being pulled from the battery. #theWorkshop #blinky #assembly #electronics
March 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Blinking a LED light on a #nRF51822 microcontroller board, coded in raw ARM/Cortex-M0 #assembly...

Because both Rust and Arduino IDE currently weren't able to get me to that point for not-yet-clear reasons. And I don't want to have to do C.

https://akavel.com/nrf51822-blink

#theWorkshop #blinky
March 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
akavel.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
My recent build of a #chorded #keyboard, a clone of Chordite. Work-in-progress firmware in #rust and (still some) C at: https://github.com/akavel/chordite-rust

Planned next steps:
- practicing actually typing on it... (the hardest one);
- tweaking and […]

[Original post on merveilles.town]
A prototype chorded keyboard being held in a left hand. Thumb is below a cardboard-like rectangle, remaining fingers pass through a hole and rest on greenish switches visible over the rectangle. A USB cable is visible below the cardboard. A cardboard rectangle with a narrow rectangular hole on its left side. To the right of the hole, eight switches are visible, arranged in two irregular rows of four, each row roughly parallel to the hole on the left. Some thin metal bars are visible between the switches, holding them to the cardboard with small tightened screws. A white USB cable is extending to the right from below, neatly tied in a loop with a piece of red velcro. A cardboard rectangle with a narrow rectangular hole on its left side. To the right of the hole, four narrow slits are visible, perpendicular to the hole. A bunch of colorful wires come out of the slits, ziptied near the bottom and going back up and right into a Teensy printed circuit board attached to the cardboard. A USB cable extends out of the PCB. Two thin black metal stripes are also visible arranged vertically, with small screw heads visible over them. The whole assembly rests on a cutting board.
March 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM