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#WeekendProject

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henry C-137

Yesterday's #weekendProject was to create a set of two homemade bitmap fonts that could be easily integrated into #pygame projects. The module and example code lives on @Codeberg under MIT license:

codeberg.org/henrykrumb/pyxelf

I'm planning to create some export function to create a C header file of the font definition, together with some framework-agnostic code to interface it for rendering. Either to use it in SDL2, or together with Arduino and some SPI display. Stay tuned 😉

Demo screenshot of the bitmap font module. It shows the example text "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" in two font faces (regular / sans and monospace bold), in lower case and upper case letters in four different colors (white, red, blue, green) on a dark background.
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Jack C.

I need a mix of quick and long-running #projects in my life. A friend who helped us move our Data East Time Machine #pinball machine into the house got me this #Dali melting clock as a holiday gift. I've tapped into the GI circuit and I'm playing with where a bulb or two can fit in to light it up and flash along with the rest of the GI.

Expand the video, sorry for the vertical orientation 😛

#PinballMods#WeekendProject#Soldering
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andie :oh_no_bubble:

Working on getting comments (via Mastodon posts) setup on my static blog. Basing it off of @laubblaeser awesome post: fbanning.de/thoughts/mastodon-

The idea is pretty straight forward:
1. Post a new blog article.
2. Post on Mastodon sharing your article's link and grab that Post ID.
3. Add a "comments" shortcode snippet to your article with that new Post ID.
4. Now any replies to the Mastodon Post can be loaded/viewed in the Blog article's new "Comments" section.
#weekendproject #blogging #fediverse

Screenshot showing partial section of a blog article page. There is a section with a title "Comments". It's followed by text, "Respond to this post with an account on the Fediverse (like Mastodon)." The "Respond to this post" is a link back to a post on Mastodon. Below that there's a blue button with a speech bubble and the words "Load all comments".
Screenshot of a portion of a blog article. It shows a "Comments" section having loaded several comments on the page. Each comment is outlined by a thin gray outline with rounded corners. The comments have a header section (with the user's profile image, their user name, the number of likes the comment got, and lastly a datetime stamp set off to the right hand side. The second half of the comment holds the text contents of the comment/post reply.
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Laloofah

Assembling & erecting this arbor to support some arching but drooping branches of our Young’s Weeping Birch has been our Labor Day weekend project — tho it would have been more appropriate as an Arbor Day project! 😁 It still needs a finishing touch or two (like recessing the visible stabilizing board so we can cover it with rocks, & of course festooning the arbor with little white faerie lights is IMPERATIVE! 😏 ✨ 🧚 ) But we’re really happy with it!

My photo of our new white, arched garden arbor that spans our front walkway. It’s supporting one of the main and arching branches of the weeping birch that grows beside the walkway (but had been hanging in the way). Beyond the arbor and out of view the paved walkway turns toward our front porch, while straight ahead it becomes a mulched dirt path to our woods.
A closer view and looking up a bit through the leafy branches now placed over our new white, arched garden arbor that spans our front walkway. It’s supporting one of the main and arching branches of the weeping birch that grows beside the walkway (but had been hanging in the way). Beyond the arbor and out of view the paved walkway turns toward our front porch, while straight ahead it becomes a mulched dirt path to our woods. A big blue flowerpot and some cedar tree trunks are also visible beyond the arbor.
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hk

Made a small #weekendproject a week ago for our anual #hackspace camping trip. The site tends to be completely dark at night and has no electric power. So I took a 54 meter LED light string from storage early and made a converter to power it from a usb powerbank. It lead a safe way over the grass to the bathroom at night.

The strip is rated for 9W at 31V.
To make the battery last longer and also lower the brightness for total darkness I brought that down to 5W. At this power it lasts 15 hours.

An opened black and white universal casing is placed on top of a white table. You can see a bunch of lazily soldered custom electronics inside. On one side a USB-A connector on a very short cable is sticking out. On the other side there is a yellow panel mount XT60 connector. The labels on the Casing read: "5V/12V IN" and "31V OUT".
The converter box is now placed on some pavement tiles. One side is connected to a USB powerbank the size of a hand. The other side is connected to a LED string. The connector on the steing has been replaced by a XT60 connector. The LEDs are golwing dimly in bright daylight.
The same LED string in twilight on a weedy lawn. The LEDs now glow a little brighter in various colors. The lights clearly mark a path.
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