Incident Creator ❎

Conducting archeology in the garage. Found birth certificates, a Dell laptop (deceased), a metal-cutting drop saw (for sale), and have exposed about 2/3 the shelving of a double storage rack. Soon will have enough room to begin a proper clearout!

Imagine if you started a World War and nobody else came.

There is a problem with EVs suddenly being so popular in combination with high oil prices: Public charging networks are going to take the opportunity to "Ooo! DemanD!" and crank their ridiculous charges up further, already being way over the equivalent of $3.50 a litre.

I am aware that a local car distributor had not sold an EV for 3 months. Last week they sold 3.

Bloody hell. That one felt like the house got rammed! #eqnz

A 10x10 grid of 100μm squares drawn using the #repRapMicron #3Dprinter.

Etched into a layer of marker on a glass slide.

Yes, Project Hail Mary is not over-hyped. Much enjoy Earth Eriadni story.

Fun day cracking BIOS passwords and trying to install customised Xubuntu on a dozen ancient laptops. I completed just one, but now I haz tools and documentation.

It'd be nice to know what keeps emptying my DEB cache though.

Yesterday Young Grasshopper learned why you don't do image capture on an Arduino, the difference between RAM and Flash, what "Random Access" implies, address and data buses, the electromagnetic spectrum, how microwaves are generated, why 5GHz conspiracy is hokum, spectral lines, discovery of helium in the sun, how to correctly deploy a screwdriver, the safety features of a rocket launcher, how to make a rocket igniter, and why not to do stupid things with said igniters.
#STEM

80% of the oil doesn't go through the gulf. But. This doesn't mean everybody gets 80% of their contracted supply. The largest consumers with the biggest lawyers and largest liabilities get 100%. So NZ gets ...

If NZ has "50 days worth of fuel either on the water or here in country" why are prices going up now?

Oh yeah, #RepRapMicron PIKA V0.01 levelled a 1mm square bed to within 4μm!
http://blog.reprap.org/2026/03/levelling-pika-reprapmicrons-bed-to-4.html

Latest μRepRap model is showing bed leveling of 4-5μm over a millimetre square. That's about the limit I can measure at. Enough for now. Bed calls.

Well darn, was not expecting to win "best dressed" at the national cowboy champs, but there ya go. Also came first in muzzle-loader shooting, which also surprised the heck out of me given I'd fired one maybe a dozen times before. Oh, and 1st Senior Gunfighter. Senior? That snuck up on me.

Today Young Grasshopper showed some python, ssh'd into a Pi Zero (the shebang was wrong, but present). We added signal.org repo to install the Linux app. Was asked how RTGs, fission, & fusion worked. Much explaining with marbles & periodic table. Mophed to lunar mining, importance of lunar ice or lack thereof, the "space race" (why it isn't a race, how uspol is screwing up). Finally YGh showed a card manipulation trick, I gave pointers (they found I was apprenticed to the Magic Circle once),

Jon Oxer of SuperHouse spoke with me at #EverythingOpen about doing a livestream of him building a #RepRapMicron #3Dprinter. Well, it's this Sunday NZ/Aus time: https://www.youtube.com/live/9y5YsKGFets

Boy is the documentation wiki due for a shakedown!

I shall lurk in the background.