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Lol, $dayjob electrician texts me, “oh no I broke a resistor while moving this motion sensor, do you have a spare <squints> 680Ω one perchance?”

Me: <adjusts cape> <reaches to shelf behind me>

Tomorrow is Mike Garbarino's birthday. Damn we miss you buddy, you left us too soon you Big Bad Bald Bastard.

Day 164 of #PCBs (part 2) - Assembly and testing edition!

And this adapter that lets me mount a Raspberry Pi on a Protonema baseboard fit perfectly the first time:

I added a GPIO pinout reference on the board, since I need to refer to it all the time. It's a little small, but still readable.

The JLCPCB silkscreen resolution has been hit and miss as of late. Some boards come back with really clear, well-defined silkscreen, and others are all blobby.

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RIP #DanielEllsberg. This account of how #poet Gary Snyder inspired the Pentagon Papers whistleblower is one of the most fascinating and least-known literary anecdotes of all time. Via #BeatGeneration scholar Randy Roark.

It’s clear Trump “understood exactly what he was doing,” says Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and even if he didn’t, that’s “no excuse.”

“If you think it's lawful to rob the bank, if you really need the money badly, that doesn't excuse you're robbing the bank.” #velshi msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/rep

FACOM G-150LT Model 10 from Japan (1989) #RetroHardware

via Retro Tech Dreams from Twitter

Feeling cozy and feisty wearing socks that an amazing friend sent me during the pandemic.

Which means I'm going to nap HARDT soon.

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