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In New Zealand, making things.
It took a surprising amount of effort to achieve this crappy result. It's rendering 4000 views simultaneously per frame (effectively 120000 fps), on a Pi 4. Complicated by no viewport arrays or layered rendering support, and clipping in the fragment shader added seconds to render time.
I bought this fiddle toy to pad out an aliexpress order, and it’s crying out to be turned into a functioning keyboard but I’m not sure what the gimmick would be.
I bought some cheap "Mitutoyo" calipers from AliExpress, and they're really good. The effort they put into making them convincing paid off. Would recommend.
Lovely morning in Wellington, if you're above 250m.
Ever since I put this Raspberry Pi in a sweet all metal heatsink case, the wifi reception has been... oh.
Breaking out the swivelcam again.
Looking at a listing on AliExpress which describes some dark glasses as "anti radiation glasses". I mean, fair enough.
80% of my time spent using a node based editor consists of fuming at the concept of node based editors.
I was asked about selling the computer bricks in kit form, and gave the same answer I've given before - that the assembly process is really fiddly, requires materials that most people don't have at hand, and is very challenging to get right on the first attempt.
But what if I made just the circuitry available as a kit? Would anybody be interested in this as an object in its own right? It clips on to Lego studs & has two capacitive touch buttons, a 72x40 screen, and an RP2040 stuffed inside it.
