#building hardware

[arcadebroke]

[tazmiilly]

the comic with fiddlefords rubix cube cage made me think "haha like a saw trap" and then i thought about it for one second longer and um. john kramer is also an old guy who builds weird machines. and now im imagining a scenario in which they interact and fidds is put in a saw trap for whatever reason but nothing happens to him because he just dismantles it. and john and amanda are watching the video feed like 😦

i know like. NOTHING about saw, but its really funny to imagine him just taking everything apart. he stuffs all the hardware into his comically sized pockets and walks away.

[matt-barber58]

An Old Latch

(latest attempt..)

[art-of-mathematics]

I made a lego case for my Raspberry Pi4 with fan hat and 3.5" LCD touchscreen module (that is attached with a flatwire to the Raspi-fan hat combination).

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Yesterday's version of the Raspi case without the screen part:

(the top lid can be opened)

[android-and-ale]

Bad: Two draining hours of Active Threat Training (formerly Active Shooter Drills) Good: At least the police trainer didn't shoot at any of us with blanks, and none of the people we had to watch get shot in CCTV footage had lethal wounds.

If you're over 25 or live outside the US, I promise you American education is way, WAY more dystopian than you think.

[borgeslabyrinth]

Ah, the familiar rage that one always feels towards the husband in a horror novel. I would simply tear this man apart limb by limb.

[unfuck-your-tech]

Unfuck your Tech

The Internet is increasingly profit-based in its design, intended to extract the maximum amount of value from your use of it. Proprietary tech, ads, monetization, algorithmic content dissemination, digital rights media (DRM) etc. are all things that benefit corporations, but that make the Internet more hostile to real individuals and communities.

This blog shares community-oriented tools, free alternatives to paid content, and ways for healthier more human media consumption with a focus on free open-source software (FOSS), that anyone can use to remove limiters, paywalls, ads, mindless endless content feeds, and take back digital autonomy, self-respect and fulfillment.

Unfuck your technology, and make your digital landscape a kinder place.

Header image made in aeCAD, a FOSS circuit board design tool.

[tilapiamafia]

havent posted any metal in a while have some metal

in order

1 - hair clip prototype based on 18th century pipe tongs that i am spending Way Too Long On Filing Holy Shit

2 - Ring!

3 - Ring !

4 - attempt at reproducing an element on Cyril Colniks masterpiece. I didnt quite get it right but still neat.

5 - pendant and broach pin! my first pieces of jewelry

6 - wonky flower(?) sculpture i started when we didn’t have the right metal to do my damn classwork. still gotta finish it up.

[electricpurrs]

MY COMPUTER IS HERE!!!!!!! ITS HERE ITS HERE ITS HERE!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO

[arcadebroke]

link

[fellhellion]

i like to think robo JFK exploded on Xina at least once during construction and ya girl was rocking like. loony tunes esque soot on face + cartoon hair when electrified

[neko-tempo]

Playing Clock Tower 3 now. Really weird game but am enjoying it a lot! It's not particularly scary but i'm really digging the absurd atmosphere this has, kinda makes me think of Hausu at times due to how whimsical and surreal it can be. The direction and acting are pretty neat too, everyone's body animations are so weirdly expressive for this era. If I have any complaints so far is that the pursuer A.I. is kinda wonky and they can damage you even if you're not close to them. Can lead to some cheap deaths lol

[dimalink]

Project Nixdorf M20 – cleaning the iron 2024

And right now, with a full power, it is going an excellent summer. And I continue to restore old computer. With a name Nixdorf M20. I suggest, that it is a computer level of 286. So, in a middle of June I transport all the parts to the country house. Case is plastic, and I transport it too to the country house.

And, I continue to clean the metal parts from a rust. So, it happened like this, that case itself and small parts are covered with rather big rust. And to restore a computer. First of all, I need to clean it from the rust.

I start to do this, already, in 2023 year. I try different methods. And, only in summer find some proper way to do it. I use a special instrument for cleaning from a rust.

And, in this summer, already, things starts to go better and faster. And, I start to have ideas, that I can do this. To clean from a rust. And this is most big moment.

And, I can, even to say, that metal case is, already, clean from rust about one side. And, I can to remove more concrete rust in the metal. So, more detail work about some fragments with most intense rust. But it is not a lot of this kind. And go to other side. And, I am doing all of these right now. Also, I clean from rust all the details of the computer itself. It is about metal holders. Connectors. And, I need to wash from a rust plastic case.  And I do this too.

Main thing, that all the things are going. And I have some things to say about. Rust is going away with a special tool. And it is rubbed off. With a rag, and metal brush. This tool - it is a special sourness. Which is need to cover a metal. And depending on mark of this tool. Later, you need to wait about 20-30 min. And, then to rub. You can to put in a water some rag. And to rub too. It is about a technique. It depends on certain rust spot. More concrete into metal rust – metal brush. More big layer of rust – too. And what is more easy - you can easily to do with a little rag. After this special thing.

And this way you need to do a several attempts. Everything is going good. It is even more joy! It is so nice, when there is something that you can do good!

And, by the way, it is still have some moments. So, mainly, metal case is in normal state. And rust eats some places absolutely to the hole. At some parts there are holes out of rust. That’s why, mainly, it is normal. About 90s percent. It is a places, where rust eat all the metal - it is hole, or very light surface of metal. And it is fragile and can tear apart or break apart even because of touch. There is such a moment.

Plastic part of the case – it is everything normal about this. It is just good to rub out of rust, which is inside plastic. Process is going on. It is good to rub and rub, as I can to say!

About the details. It is more harder. Some metal construction parts, grille, connectors are in a hard condition. They are covered with intense rust surface. I, partially, rub them. But, I need to more rub. Some details are very uncomfortable to rub. Or some place a metal part is tearing apart, even this can to happen. Some bracings.

It is some danger about a hard drive and power adapter. Hard drive has a heavy cover of rust. Power adapter too. I can rub it. And will they work – it is a question. Hard drive makes less sense to me. It is in better condition. And I can change it. There is some way. And power adapter. In some places he tears apart during cleaning. And, it still has a heavy rust. So, it is still not the final collapse of construction. And inside it is ok state. But, as my brother told me, we need to see it next.

And most big question it is power adapter. I do not know what to change it with. And there are some possibilities, that I will need to do it. And brother told me, that metal can be increased. But, first it is good to clean the rust as good as I can. And it is rather real process! And I am doing it, from time to time, at the country house! At the excellent summer weather or more refreshing evening time. And, I take on a gas mask! To have defense from a metal dust!

It will be very interesting to continue to restore this interesting computer. And for now – I need to continue to clean from a rust. Process takes its time, I do attempts. I cover metal with tool from a rust. I wait up to 30 min. Then start to rub for some time. And next I do repeat, again and again. So, it takes normal time.

Anyway, it is so nice to be at the country house at summer. And to have such a project. Something like some programmers has their pet project. Pet it is goes after some house animal. As I get it. Such a project for interest. So, I have mine one! And I am right now program with Basic. And I have such retro computer old one as a project! And summer - it is just fine!

iron (hardware) and programs. From time to time i restore computers, retro computers. Try retro soft. Check some programs. And write about all of these. Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

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[sikawie]

Planning on building a mid range pc!!

Bought a 3060ti eagle oc on retail a few months ago...

(stress tested it at a friend's place and saw that it's emitting way too much heat than it's supposed to- whoops)

I'm giving it a good thorough cleaning and changing its dried up thermal paste and thermal pads before I start building the actual pc tower! (the fan cable was so difficult to unplug, I was really worried about breaking it aaaaa-)

Aaaand the end result! Hope it won't go over 92°C like last time! :')

[draw-you-coward]

chili peppers round two!! hopefully these grow better than the last :)

i also picked up a broken bit of an eastern cottonwood tree so we'll see how that grows indoors! I'll give it to someone/somewhere in the fall so it can winter properly ;3;;

on a more personal note i think for the first time ever my meds are working! didn't even know i've been depressed for 15 years! lol. i might start putting other creative projects up on this blog bc tbh writing and digital art are just two of so many different things I am interested in :) i like plants, i want to learn to paint, want to start DIY-ing my place, sewing, leatherworking, quilting, fiber arts, so much!! idk what my art will even be like now :) ig we'll see in july at the latest!

[magnetictapedatastorage]

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