Blenster @Blenster@social.cleverlibre.org
Hacker/maker, inventor, nerd, apprentice knife-maker, Co-Founder of
@mrblinkybling
. Rapid prototyper. Member of
@LVL1Hackerspace
http://youtube.com/blenster (he/him)
Joined Apr 2022
Here's a video of one of the machines I built for my boys all lit up and animating:
It's 11:38AM Eastern and I'm glad you are alive.
I know that sometimes it's hard but the effort is worth it.
You are worth it.
You are worthy.
#MakeKindnessNormal
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I'm trying to do what I guess is a “content marketing” thing? Thing where I show you how to do cool stuff with the tech that I'm selling. Anyway this week's project is an Adafruit-adjacent Learn Guide: building a battery-powered Neopixel Christmas tree, with an LCD FeatherWing and a one-button UI. Hope to have it ready to publish tomorrow or Monday; just finalizing the CircuitPython code now.
@djweso @todbot @joeycastillo @Raspberry_Pi I found some screenshots; their social media person is not running the account in a way that I'd recommend running a business account.
Might become one of the case studies I present when talking to folks about how to do social media for business correctly.
@ick THANK YOU; I really appreciate this.
@todbot @joeycastillo @Raspberry_Pi
Yikes; what did I miss??
I bought Dwarf Fortress yesterday, apparently along with MANY other folks, and then today picked up a short term contract to help fill in before the new job starts so I'm not starting the game today.
Anyone have advice on the game I should know when I'm ready to begin?
@smitty That looks FUN!
"Some assembly required" - I love those words.
Sometimes I wonder how many times a woman has started a conversation hoping I would flirt with them and then realizing that I'm way too dense for that.
I'm reliably informed that it's a non-zero number but I'm too clueless to manage a guess at the number.
@dreams If they reach one person who needed to hear that today then they are a success. :-)
It's 8:39PM Eastern and I'm glad you're alive.
Thanks for being here with me. I know it isn't always easy and I appreciate you.
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Just because this might be the last time I do this for a while: some glamour shots of the panels.
@jdsalinger congratulations!
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Shippening weekend one wrapped up yesterday with 1,000 units shipped: 500 Watch boards and 500 temperature sensors, now securely at the Mouser warehouse in Mansfield, Texas. Shippening weekend two begins now. A box from Cyber City Circuits in Augusta is set to arrive tomorrow. In it: the 200 boards I need to finish out the Crowd Supply campaign. 200 sensor boards are already packed. Paperwork is filled out. Firmware is ready. Won’t be long now.
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Massive thanks to @jasoncoon for making me this Macrochip of a microchip that’s very close to my heart! This is the Microchip (née Atmel) SAM L22 that sits at the heart of Sensor Watch. This engraved slate tile even captures the date code of the chips on the earliest blue Sensor Watch boards, the first products that I ever shipped. (Also as a bonus he also engraved this epic vector art of the Oddly Specific lazer bear shark!)
Blenster
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Hacker/maker, inventor, nerd, apprentice knife-maker, Co-Founder of
@mrblinkybling
. Rapid prototyper. Member of
@LVL1Hackerspace
http://youtube.com/blenster (he/him)
Joined Apr 2022
