Ok, that's a cutie case. One of my favorite lab projects back in the long-ago involved a deployment of a flock of these awkward and heavy machines. This little build is, I suspect, significantly easier to lug around.
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1037452#profileId-1021586
(via hackster: https://www.hackster.io/news/jerrod-hofferth-s-half-sized-emac-mini-might-be-the-cutest-m4-mac-mini-housing-around-85a2ad47ee20)
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Some days the build seems to stand still and other days it feels like I'm rapidly knocking out tasks.
Today was the latter as I installed a swivel seat and a roof rack.
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You may not like it but this is what peak productivity looks like.
[#]vanLife #vanBuild #nowWhereDidIPutThat
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I wonder what we'll do with all of those new data centers when the AI start-up crash takes away the current users' cash.
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Oh, another sibling idea is a time travel computer unconference LARP where everybody shows up dressed and acting like it's 1972 and then we use the unconference methods to organize era-appropriate talks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
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I've meant to whip up a free PCB mag clamps kit so people don't need to pay the (IMHO too high) price for the commercial equivalents but this project looks close to what I had in mind and has the benefit of actually existing instead of just floating around in my brain.
https://hackaday.io/project/202216-another-spin-on-pcb-clamps
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I strongly believe both events could be a healthy way to refresh our collective understanding of the origins of CS and interaction design. This is important because so much of our modern work is a thoughtless extension of a select few constraints and mindframes from that era. So much interesting work was considered and then lost in the rush to win wars and make dollars.
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A sibling daydream is to put on a theater show that reproduces the Mother of All Demos to take the audience on a bit of time travel back to that influential moment.
I happen to know that a modern reproduction of Engelbart's console exists and is gathering dust in a closet. (not my closet, though)
https://youtu.be/B6rKUf9DWRI
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One inspiration is Bret Victor's talk, "The Future of Programming" but mostly I love the work by @SDF and believe it would be fun to bring a bit of theater and play to the process of learning about that time in computer science.
https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4
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One of my recurring dreams is a sort of LARP hotel/computer course set in the 70s. You'd be issued a badge and back story as an engineer whose company sent them to a course put on by an early computer company like DEC to familiarize you with a new platform like a PDP-11.
The level of role-play could be intense (everyone dressed and in character at all times) or casual (just the coursework and preso tech is era-appropriate).
Maybe everyone has a PiDP-11 or similar simulation machine.
[#]timeCamp
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As far as guidance on how to live, this snippet is a nothingburger but it makes me daydream about how wonderful it would be if folks who are regularly put offline by major depression could have a technique for making peace with a bacteria and then be free of that burden.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/bacteria-and-their-metabolites-and-depression
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A Tangara music player arrived and I love it. This is the first portable audio player I feel like I own since I lost my Diskman and stopped burning mix disks. 💿
The Tangara is pretty, open, hackable, and made by neat-o smarty-pants folks.
I look forward to futzing around with it for many years. 🎧
Also, it supports beets so I get to learn a new audio file management tool that is similarly open and hackable. ⚙️
https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
https://beets.io
[#]tangara #openHardware #beets
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I won't be upset if growth startups lose interest in machine learning after a few spectacular flameouts in the current flock of hubris-addicted shitheels.
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Every once in awhile I find a freely shared project on Printables that seems terribly thoughtful and thorough. This organizer box system is a nice example.
I'd like an organizer system like this but for #FreeGrid modules.
/me adds another item to the Possible Projects list.
https://www.printables.com/model/942089-organizer-box
[#]3Dprinting
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I have visible bolt heads on my van walls and they need washers. I think it would be funny to design washers shaped like animals where the bolt head is a body part like a nose, eye, or the asterisk you see when a cat is walking away from you.
[#]vanBuild
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As the van conversion progresses I can feel myself shifting from gear mode (focussing mostly on outfitting and construction) to go mode (focused on travel). It'll be nice to feel like the van is done enough that I can leave it alone (except maintenance, obs) while I go look at stuff.
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TIL about Embassy, a Rust environment for embedded work on small-ish chips like the RP2040 and ESP32s. I have a few ideas for small devices for camper vans so maybe if I can make time this Summer I'll give it a try. My initial impression from reading the docs is that it's early days but could be handy.
https://embassy.dev/
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One idea that's stuck with me is that a van conversion is more like fitting out a sailboat than a house:
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I watched a van conversion video in which the builder installed a two meter by half meter granite countertop. It's a solid 30mm thick and they could barely lift it during installation. 😿
Also, every other surface is 20mm hardwood ply.
The builder lost their home and so was making the best of it. I do understand the urge to make the van feel like a "real home" by reproducing house construction.
That said, I couldn't deal with the extra fuel costs and wear on the engine.
[#]vanBuild
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