Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

Trying something a little more snug for the new smaller screws I bought.

Here's the above colorful panels, printed and assembled. I'm glad I tried this partial test before going for the full panel design. I learned a couple things that will inform the design of the rest.
1) Gonna make the holes smaller and use smaller hardware. Those screws are at least half of the weight of the panel.
2) Gonna do some 2x2 square screw brackets instead of the 4x1 long ones I started with.
3) The fitted edges work really well (look at the border between blue and green on the right above). The angled triangles help keep everything aligned. Where I don't have them, the build is far less cohesive.
4) I need to make the panel above the yoke hardware-free to ease in final construction. It should just be an easy pressure fit, which will allow me to place the yoke, remove it, and mount its bracket to the frame before replacing it... without having to disassemble half the panel.
5) I am never not surprised by how much smaller these end up in real life compared to my modelling program.

Wait, does nobody else on Mastodon use Android? My entire feed became Apple fanboys today.

A person with a coexist bumper sticker just swerved in from the oncoming lane and cut me off.

The irony.

Also got a touchscreen hooked up to an Arduino and running on it. Refresh rate is a problem, though, even with certain techniques to improve it... The problem is that with a glass cockpit type program, pretty much the entire background can need to be refreshed at any given frame.

Next thing to try is generating graphics elsewhere and just pushing them through the USB cable.

Here it is from the front:

Working on the panel now. It has to be designed in a way that it can be printed in my 3D printer, which is a bit smaller than 5"x10", and it has to be sturdy and easy to connect without slipping.

Mary Shelley's key contribution to the world was to teach us to name our monsters more interestingly than our scientists.

Ugh. Max/TCM added a 3-minute introduction "contextualizing" the racist language in Blazing Saddles to the beginning of the movie.

If you can't tell the racists are the bad guys in Blazing Saddles without some lady telling you, you probably aren't smart enough to be watching satire in the first place.

Dear fellow #IT people. I know we all hate it when users give us vague error reports like "it's not working!".
But how often do you go out of your way to thank them when they get it right and send you an error message with a screenshot and reproduction steps?

If you don't do this already, I highly recommend starting ASAP. Even for the most technical users, it's helpful to perform this simple action as *positive reinforcement* for doing things right. Training users to be better at their jobs makes all of *our* jobs easier as a result.

But, as an added bonus, people seem to like being thanked! So, it also makes them like you more as a side effect ("oh, (s)he's not one of those grouchy IT people!").

It's disturbing how quickly journalists normalize this manchild just because he's rich.

The only thing government bureaucracy is efficient at is fucking up your day.

Fucking government, man. Won't even take the currency they themselves print. No, instead they force me to go to a private business to get a money order to pay them. Crazy.

Hey writers: If someone is a protagonist of your show/movie, don't make them a flagrant adulterer.

It doesn't give them depth or gray morality; it just makes them a terrible person that the audience can no longer root for.

Now that's what I call a compromise.

Yeah, this is insane.

In #Florida, you now need to visit a doctor and get a license to smoke weed.

But you can carry a gun with no state requirements whatsoever.

I feel much less safe living here now.

Lunacy.