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Shipbuilding 101: Don't drop it

It's as much about distribution as it is about quantity.... Too much in the wrong places and too little where it's really needed. Having said that, the reservoirs here are far from full after a very dry winter ... On the plus, all my beehives were very active today, bringing in yellow pollen (pussyw...

I just bought this bad boy. The idea is to design a mono power amp and power supply around it, specifically for playing Meredith's 78rpm records and other early mono stuff, probably into a big single-driver corner speaker. (Mr Cresswell Jr you will likely have mail soon). Cost me less than I though...

Been playing with ChatGPT. Weird shit https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ So, just for a test, I asked ChatGPT: write a c++ program for an MSP430 microprocessor that will read an ADC and sleep for the number of milliseconds read This is what it replied - verbatim, unedited, in about 10 seconds: To cre...

Meanwhile, any updates from Goudhurst direction? Well, thanks for asking! Just tedious to deal with. It's all still going on. We have the massive generator running 24/7 but recent bad weather means UKPN have had to divert resources to that. The pain from our point of view is that a load of stuff wa...

Dnipro Opera Company/Ukrainian National Opera production of Carmen.

Got the flag out and sang their national anthem at the end:

Various things have blown up during this episode - as soon as I realised that the utility supply was going bonkers, I turned off/unplugged as much as I could, since weird stuff was going on. As there was a neutral fault too, when we turned off some led lights, they glowed dimly, but when turned on, ...

Interesting device - circular OLED with integral ESP32. Could have all sorts of fun with a "soft meter"...

After a huge amount of effort in the rain, on a hillside of greasy mud, the engineers found a break in the old cable (installed in 1948 or thereabouts) and spliced in a new bit... Back up at the house (about 40mtrs up the hill) they measured ... 30 VAC... not good as it means other faults elsewhere ...

Sounds like a nightmare right now with the weather. I'm sure Harry Hill would say that it's 'Far from ideal'. He went to the local grammar school, Cranbrook, just down the road. Can't stand him. We're lucky in that the house is incredibly well insulated. I'm a bit more concerned about the sump pump...

Lot of flickering from the lights and now L1 & L2 have failed, so no power to the site at all. UKPN only dug a hole yesterday, then buggered off at 3pm when the afternoon shift's van broke down so they didn't arrive. "Don't worry" they said, "we'll be back at 8am". At 11am I ...

As we still have no 3 phase and thus no heating, I made some bird boxes out of 2 pieces of 15x160x1400 untreated timber and some nice bird-safe water-based paint. One has a 23mm protected entrance and the other is 32mm. Both are mounted east-facing. The plates prevent squirrels and woodpeckers from ...

pre65 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:13 pm Seems battery developments are ongoing, and in the future batteries will be cheaper and more power dense.

I never would have guessed ...

Meanwhile, our neighbours just below us down the hill are doing a massive modern eco build. Why does this involve us? We're in favour as it's a great project, however the three phase power to our property crosses their land (buried cable) - there's an easement for this and it's been that way for 60 ...

Apologies. Maybe it is something weird about the Pi.

I do get occasional buffering even with clients that have large amounts of excess horsepower and bandwidth, e.g my PCs, but they are windows, not Debian.