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we can super glue a handle on it and you can put your luggage in the paper tray

free to a good home. just come pick it up!

you bet!

hahah, i narrowly avoided getting into print stuff, so anything i know is a good two decades out of date.

we bought it in 2016 and it's just a bog standard "office printer".
plus just the toner refill is like two thirds of the cost of a new printer, so i'm okay with retiring it.

do you think this is enough stuff for a tiny bathroom?
do i need MORE?

yeah, that's printer speak for color alignment, same thing really.

yeah, the dragged lines is because the toner is really low too, that's a separate problem :)

annoyingly, a new set of toner cartridges for this badboy is like 250 EUR, so not something you'd take a chance on really.

a couple of minutes of crawling around on the floor later, it's mounted!

usually, getting power to this would be a problem, but we renovated this bathroom a couple of months ago and i had them put a power outlet in the vanity, so that was easy!

hope was quickly squashed as this is after calibration.

(i actually didn't notice that the earlier screenshot says calibration failed, but whatever, this printer is going to a, uh, farm where it can live out its life in peace)

last week we finally buckled and bought a replacement.
today i was zipping around the menus trying to find the factory reset (it has an address book)

guess what i found?

our shared office printer has been acting up lately, biggest problem is that the color registration is off by a mile.

i've been chasing around manuals, menus and hidden service codes to try and calibrate it. no luck.

i know @tylerglaiel.com wrote some real neat stuff to get the mewgenics animations out of flash and into whatever custom engine it is they're using, probably a little bit too specific, but maybe he can expand on that?

ah, yes, i was agreeing! could have been clearer on that :)

also, i do like the "i see what you did there" type achievements. makes for a fun little moment when!

my fave use is for sure showing players some obscure little corner of the gameplay that didn't warrant being an actual part of the game.

geometry wars 2 has one that's called "wax on" where you need to rub your ship along side the full arena wall in the pacifism mode. it's great!

thanks!

The fully assembled pcb inside a waterproof enclosure

A led strip and a funky looking temperature/humidity sensor

Had to drill out the mounting holes slightly to get the screws to fit, miscalculated on the size I guess? Either way, it fits well and is ready to mount!

a partially dismantled kitchen extractor fan with a twig lodged in the vent that should flap open when in use.

our kitchen extractor fan has been a bit crappy lately, plus there's been a cold draft from it.

today i opened it up and found this gift from the local bird population.

hahahah! found it on facebook!

электроника 24-01

my office mate recently scored this as a bonus when he bought a used NES.

incredible artifact!

a populated pcb with a microcontroller, light sensor, a presence detection radar and a couple of connectors

finally got the time to solder this up and make sure it works, got all the connections right! did mess up slightly on the distancing hence the hilariously tall component on the upper right.

i've got a few lapses (which in my defense are personal projects) but i'm pretty pleased with this!

what the HECK is that?

The UPS is hooked up to my Synology NAS which does run NUT, idk why it didn't alert me tho!

I'm on a smallish Eaton unit now, and seeing as I've only had like one or two power outages across these four years, I'll probably stick with it. It gets me like ten minutes of runtime, which is plenty.

Ha! It was your post about the Z420 way back that sent me on this path in the first place. Thank you for that!

i liked "glasshole" that came about last time they tried this

oh lord. i've had that list of names rattle around my brain for so long and i nearly forgot it UNTIL NOW.

i have ordered a new battery (about $30) and will try and see if i can actually get any diagnostic data out of the UPS that will hopefully warn me BEFORE this happens next time.

turns out the UPS can't run on the battery at all. they have a life expectancy of about 4 years, and i was right up to that.

what made it reboot was the self-test procedure on the UPS, it will briefly switch over to battery to make sure it all works, and it uh, did not!