In our room of requirement we have a 7’ wooden shipping crate. It’s now going to hold a 6’6” mummy that I made for Halloween.

I built the mummy out of chicken wire and 3" strips of gauze and muslin. If I had more time, I'd stain the cloth to age it—not this year!

It's anachronistic but I'm leaving the styrofoam in place just in case I need the crate for its original purpose!

🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

#halloween

i'm finally running octoprint directly on my prusa mk3s+ via an installed/integrated raspberry pi zero 2 w and octopi. the hardest part was finding and buying the zero 2 w—thankfully they have been showing up in online inventories lately—and the 18mm breakable header. (i also had to hunt down the zero 2 w frame pattern that is a slight remix of the original frame—not linked because there might be some licensing issues in play.)

#3dprinting #raspberrypi #octoprint #octopi #prusa

i didn’t expect something like this to exist but when i found out it did i had to buy one…

• 32-bit RV32IMAC RISC-V “Bumblebee Core” @ 108 MHz
• 0.69" OLED white color monochrome display with 96x16p resolution
• 128KB Flash
• 32KB SRAM
• Ralim IronOS operating system
• GigaDevice GD32VF103TB chipset
• GPIO break-out through USB-C port
• Type B2 soldering tip as default

backyard astronomy workshop thursday night at dragoncon, hilton hotel, downtown atlanta.

#dragoncon

It's amazing what will still compile and run. Consider this old project I maintained for a while, a while ago—it still has at least one file of pre-ANSI C (with the K&R style function definitions) alongside a bunch of C and C++ that compiles under C++14.

The story is that this actually runs a service that I needed to migrate from an old CentOS server to a new Ubuntu server. Despite it being a 30+ year old project, and my not having touched my fork in ~5-6 years, it all just compiled and ran (specifically configure && make resulted in a working binary on the new server). I can't think of any other piece of software I use that I have that kind of confidence in just working!

#stunt #lambdamoo

in other news, this arrived today!

#theartofcomputerprogramming #knuth

it’s heading toward 100°F outside.

i’m shading the rhubarb plant so it survives the heat! we only have this one and i’m looking forward to strawberry rhubarb pie this fall...

#rhubarb #pnw

latest project… we got my wife’s parents bikes out of storage where they’d been collecting dust for about 25 years, put new tires on them, tuned them up, cleaned them up and went riding!

@rpilocator great work! i snagged a raspberry pi zero 2 w off adafruit today after catching notice that it was in stock!

whoa! i managed snag a raspberry pi zero 2 w. as fate would have it, i had all necessary prerequisites in place when i noticed availability: 1) existing, verified adafruit account, 2) my wallet and credit card near me. i've lost out on both counts before...